Kevin Shum

Kevin is a managing associate in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency team based in London. Kevin specialises in financial restructurings, distressed investments, enforcement options and formal insolvencies. He has experience acting for a broad range of stakeholders in distressed situations including debtors (and their boards), sponsors, special situations investors, lenders, bondholders and insolvency practitioners. He is dual qualified in Australia and England & Wales.

Kevin previously completed a secondment to the workout team at Standard Chartered Bank, during which he worked alongside bankers on complex, multi-jurisdictional restructurings, enforcement strategies and credit management projects in the Asia-Pacific region.  

Originally practising in Australia, Kevin received several industry recognitions including Rising Star by Australasian Lawyer (2022), Excellence Award – Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year by Australasian Law Awards (2021) and Winner (Insolvency) – Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 (2020).

Work highlights

Kevin's experience includes:

• Matalan: acting for the founder and shareholder in relation to the financial restructuring of the group’s £540m indebtedness.
• VIC Properties: representing the ad-hoc committee of bondholders in respect of the financial restructuring of the €424m pre-IPO convertible bonds, new money injection and debt for equity swap.
• ABP: advising the investor on its acquisition from the liquidators of a portfolio of distressed real estate assets in Royal Albert Docks, London. 
• Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal: representing noteholders on the financial restructuring of the A$523m gilts notes via a scheme of arrangement.
• Chain Valley Collery: acting for the first ranking secured creditor and the receivers and managers on a complex operational receivership of a coal mine in New South Wales, Australia and subsequent receivership sale which transaction value was in excess of A$350m.
• Harris Scarfe: acting for the administrators on the restructuring of the third largest department store chain in Australia through a deed of company arrangement and creditors’ trust.

Kevin holds combined undergraduate degrees in Law (LLB) and Commerce (BCom, accounting major) from the University of New South Wales.