James Kirkpatrick is a senior associate in our restructuring and special situations practice
James predominately acts on restructuring and insolvency matters, often with multijurisdictional aspects, representing a range of clients on the debtor side, the creditor side, administrative trustees agents and trustees, and insolvency officeholders.
James has extensive experience advising stakeholders in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border corporate distress situations, including administrators, liquidators and receivers, secured and unsecured lenders, vendors and purchasers of distressed assets, financial sponsors, and boards and shareholders of distressed entities.
James has advised clients including domestic and international banks, domestic and multinational private credit and private equity funds, large listed and private corporations, and major insolvency practitioner and accounting firms.
James joined Ashurst from the restructuring and insolvency team of a leading global law firm in London and, prior to that, practised as a senior associate in the restructuring, turnaround and insolvency team at a top tier international firm in Sydney.