Hannah Murray is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Restructuring and Special Situations Practice.

Hannah has experience advising on a broad range of complex and cross-border restructuring, insolvency and special situation matters. Her experience includes acting for debtors, creditors, sponsors and strategic investors on a variety of transactions, including schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans, insolvency processes and liability management exercises.

Hannah’s experience includes advising/representing:

  • A creditor in connection with Victoria PLC’s uptiering transaction involving its €500 million senior secured notes due 2026*
  • ADVANZ PHARMA, a Nordic Capital portfolio company, in connection with the issuance of €917 million (equivalent) in new euro- and pound sterling-denominated senior secured notes and the borrowing of a €165 million Term Loan B facility*
  • Sino-Ocean Group Holding Limited in relation to its US$6 billion cross-border restructuring, involving a contested English Restructuring Plan and a parallel Hong Kong Scheme of Arrangement – the first Restructuring Plan of a Chinese real estate developer where cross-class cram-down was successfully utilized*
  • One Equity Partners and Buckthorn Partners in their acquisition of Acteon Group and related corporate reorganization*
  • Coupang Inc. in its acquisition of the business and assets of Farfetch Holdings plc via an English pre-pack administration*
  • A multi-national agricultural and irrigation conglomerate in connection with its restructuring of US$200 million in senior notes via an English Scheme of Arrangement*
  • A national airline carrier in English High Court proceedings against a state entity involving, among other things, a disputed foreign law-governed restructuring plan*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LLM Commercial LPC (Accelerated), BPP Law School, Holborn
    Distinction
  • LLB, University of Warwick
    Upper Second Class Honors

Languages Spoken

  • English

Practices