Overview
Victoria Kuhn is a senior associate in the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group and focuses her practice on financial restructuring transactions, including high yield bond and LBO workouts, refinancings, consensual and nonconsensual restructurings, enforcements and distressed asset sales as well as contentious restructuring and insolvency matters.
Victoria advises creditors, bondholders, investors and corporate groups on cross-border matters concerning restructurings and general corporate matters. She has also advised on complex cross-border matters for creditors (including direct lenders and distressed debt funds).
Victoria is also a contributor to International Corporate Rescue.
Prior to joining McDermott, Victoria worked as an associate in an international law firm in their business reorganization and restructuring department.
Prior to embarking on her legal career, Victoria qualified as a Swiss Certified Public Accountant (eidgenössisch diplomierte Wirtschaftsprüferin) and worked as a financial auditor of complex corporate groups and pension funds in Zürich, Switzerland, for a number of years.
Results
- Advised GLAS on the implementation of a Dutch company’s €880 million restructuring by way of English scheme of arrangement and Dutch in-court share pledge enforcement*
- Advised a global debt administration service provider as trustee and security agent on the private offering of £235 million senior secured notes by a large gaming provider*
- Acted for the security agent in relation to a rectification dispute in the Court of Appeal in FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corporation Limited [2019] EWCA Civ 1361*
- Advised the restructuring agent in connection with the restructuring of Four Seasons Health Care Group*
- Advised credit funds on contingency planning and restructuring proposals with respect to notes issued by distressed European businesses (British retail property investment, European airline, European media)*
*Matter Handled prior to joining McDermott
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 UK, Recommended, 2024 – 2025
- Best Lawyers in United Kingdom, Insolvency and Restructuring Law, Ones to Watch, 2024 – 2025
Credentials
Education
BPP Law School, LPC, 2016
Lincoln College, University of Oxford, BA in Jurisprudence, 2015
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, BA in Business Administration, 2008
Admissions
England and Wales
Languages
English
German
