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Julian Turner

Consultant

JulianTurner

Julian Turner

Consultant

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, Spanish

Julian is a Consultant in the Finance Group at CMS London.  Julian specialises in non-contentious insolvency and restructuring matters and advises corporates, lenders, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders on a broad range of issues, often with a cross border element. He has undertaken transactions across a range of sectors.

Julian has banking and financial services experience, acting on transactions for both lenders and borrowers, providing structuring advice on complex finance transactions.   Julian is experienced in providing enforcement strategy advice to lenders, in particular to growth, fintech and technology and media companies.  

Julian has also acted on a number of schemes of arrangement, in particular in the financial services and insurance sectors.

Julian has Middle East experience having lived and work for three years in Abu Dhabi.

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"The ‘practical and commercial’ Julian Turner is also recommended."

Legal 500, 2016

"The ‘practical and commercial’ Julian Turner is also recommended."

Legal 500, 2016

Relevant experience

  • Bank of Ireland and Royal Bank of Scotland on a facility to a leading music publisher, including detailed enforcement strategy advice.
  • Providing enforcement strategy advice to a leading fintech investor on a number of complex transactions.
  • The FCA on schemes of arrangement proposed by regulated entities.
  • The administrators of MMP Financial Limited.
  • On a number of distressed shopping centre situations.
  • On distressed situations in the education sector. 
  • Pension scheme trustees on distressed employer situations.
  • BAE on the funding and subsequent administration of Brimar Limited, a key supplier to the business.
  • Acting for Dan Schwarzmann of PricewaterhouseCoopers as administrator of Folksam International Insurance Company (UK) Limited including the implementation of a scheme of arrangement.
  • Vodafone UK Limited on the solvent liquidation of Mobile by Sainsbury's Limited.
  • CityFibre Holdings Limited on the acquisition of the business and assets of H2O Networks Limited acting by its administrators and its subsequent fundraisings.
  • Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank on the US$100m refinancing of a luxury resort in the Maldives.
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Education

  • 1993 - MA, Robinson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge
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Memberships

  • Member, R3.
  • Member, ILA Technical Committee.
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Publications

  • 2019 – Debenhams CVA - Journal of International Banking and Financial Review
  • 2019 – Directors’ Duties and Insolvency - Journal of International Banking and Financial Review  
  • 2015 - Restructuring Bonds: Legal Issues Under English Law - The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery and Insolvency 
  • 2013 - Schemes of Arrangement for Foreign Companies – The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery and Insolvency 
  • 2012 - Schemes of Arrangement for Foreign Companies – The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery and Insolvency 
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Cor­por­ate In­solv­ency and Gov­ernance Act 2020
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CMS tri­umphs at TRI Awards 2018
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Cor­por­ate In­solv­ency and Gov­ernance Bill 2020
In­tro­duc­tion On 28 March 2020, the UK Gov­ern­ment an­nounced up­com­ing in­solv­ency law re­forms in re­sponse to Cov­id-19, in­ten­ded to help com­pan­ies and dir­ect­ors. On 23 April 2020, the UK Gov­ern­ment an­nounced...
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Why lend­ing to a mu­sic pub­lish­er is sound busi­ness
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The UK Jur­is­dic­tion Taskforce’s Leg­al State­ment on the Status of Cryptoassets and Smart Con­tracts is prov­ing to be in­flu­en­tial both do­mest­ic­ally and in­ter­na­tion­ally for its ana­lys­is of the leg­al status...
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Com­pany Vol­un­tary Ar­range­ments: An Over­view
Mar­tin Brown, Part­ner in our Re­struc­tur­ing & In­solv­ency Group, provides an over­view of CVAs as the pro­ced­ure that is cur­rently in vogue in the UK for cer­tain dis­tressed busi­nesses, not­ably re­tail­ers and...
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