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Profil Frank Clarke

  • Frank advises clients on contentious matters including commercial and financial litigation, insolvency and restructuring matters, and corporate and regulatory investigations.
  • Frank trained at Freshfields and has spent time on secondment to our Frankfurt office.

 

Mandate

  • Advising the joint administrators of Gibraltar insurer Elite Insurance Company Limited
  • Advising the joint administrators of Debenhams
  • Adviding Tele Columbus AG on its refinancing transaction including by way of an English scheme of arrangement
  • Advising Four Seasons Healthcare in connection with its restructuring
  • Advising ED&F Man on its restructuring plan, including cross-class cramdown and amendment to shareholder articles
  • Advising the joint administrators of the Arcadia Group entities
  • Advising Credit Suisse on its exposure to the Greensill Group
  • Advising a major corporate in shareholder litigation in the English High Court arising out of a profit overstatement
  • Advising Equitable Life on its scheme of arrangment and linked sale to Utmost Life and Pensions
  • Acting for Volvo/Renault Trucks in the co-ordination of its Europe-wide defence of claims arising from the European Commission's decision relating to the trucks industry
  • Advising directors of a well-known retailer on investigations by The Pensions Regulator and the Insolvency Service
  • Advising various clients in relation to investigations by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and Financial Reporting Council

Qualifikationen

University of Edinburgh, LLM

University of Bristol, LLB

Publikationen

  • (2022) Corporate Rescue and Insolvency 15 (3) Smile Telecoms Restructuring Plan Sanctioned: Time for Challengers to ‘step up to the plate’

  • (2022) International Corporate Rescue 19 (1) 45 Al Jaber & Ors v Mitchell & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1190

  • (2020) International Corporate Rescue 17 (3) 222 Re Debenhams Retail Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 600

  • (2022) International Corporate Rescue 19 (6) 348 Re Changtel Solutions UK Ltd (In Liquidation) [2022] EWHC 694 (Ch)