27 May 2013

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Mark Hyde

Mark Hyde

Title
Partner
Office
Clifford Chance, Hong Kong | View map
Practice
Banking & finance, Restructuring & insolvency
Publications
3

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Tel
+85228258855

Experience and career history

Mark Hyde has had significant involvements in a number of major restructurings/insolvencies including Peregine, Barlow Clowes , Maxwell, Monier, Dubai World and Nakheel. 

Mark is a licensed insolvency practitioner, member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and INSOL. 

Mark the Practice Area Leader for the Asia Pacific Finance Practice and Global Head of the firm’s Insolvency and Restructuring Practice.

Birmingham University (LLB (Hons)  1980)
Articled Phillip Conway Thomas
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1984
Joined Clifford Chance 1984
Partner since 1993

Professional bodies

R3 and INSOL
Insolvency Lawyers Association( Past President)

Highlights of deals and projects

  • the Travelodge Group in relation to its operational and financial restructuring
  • Dubai World and separately its subsidiary companies (including Nakheel, Dubai Dry Docks World and Limitless) in relation to their complex debt restructurings encompassing a total of circa US$24.5 billion of debt
  • Dubai International Capital in relation to its US$2.5 billion financial restructuring
  • the senior lenders to Monier in relation to its ground breaking and complex financial restructuring involving the first ever enforcement of a Luxembourg share pledge

Citations and awards

Mark Hyde is global head of the firm's insolvency and restructuring group and has a "first-class reputation." He recently advised Dubai-based real estate company Nakheel on its restructuring of liabilities totalling over USD16 billion.
Source Chambers UK 2013, UK, Restructuring/Insolvency (Band 1)

Headed by the ‘excellent’ Mark Hyde, Clifford Chance’s nine-partner team excels at big-ticket restructurings and insolvencies, where it is able to deploy a ‘highly co-ordinated approach’ in utilising multiple offices and strengths in related practice areas.
Source Legal 500 2013, Corporate restructuring and insolvency, Tier 1

Mark Hyde is noted for his expertise "in plain-speaking and is technically expert". 
Source: Chambers 2012

Mark Hyde is noted for his expertise in corporate restructuring and insolvency and is "highly experienced and commercially astute". 
Source: Legal 500 2012

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