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 Rebecca Hennis
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Rebecca Hennis

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  • English

Rebecca is an experienced member of CMS’ contentious insolvency team, which is part of the firm’s award-winning restructuring and insolvency group. As a specialist litigator, Rebecca combines technical insolvency knowledge together with experience of dealing with contentious issues in both domestic and cross-border insolvency contexts.

Rebecca often works with other CMS offices on complex, cross-order collapses and is regularly appointed to act for office-holders on general issues with respect to stressed/distressed entities, dealing with claims against former directors, advising on the exercise of office-holders’ statutory powers (including applications under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986), obtaining recognition of proceedings abroad, investigating retention of title claims and antecedent transactions and the like; all with the ultimate aim of bringing more recoveries into the estate.

Rebecca also acts for creditors, debtors, companies facing financial difficulties and other stakeholders/third parties asserting or facing potential claims.

Rebecca also has experience advising on Schemes of Arrangements of distressed entities that are regulated.

Relevant experience

  • Swiss liquidation (confidential) – acting on behalf of the liquidators of a Swiss oil company (in liquidation) in relation to claims against third parties, as part of the exercise of the office-holders’ powers and in an effort to recover monies into the estate.
  • Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) – acting for DEG in relation to its investment in Gwembe Valley Development Company (in liquidation) (GVDC). Specifically, dealing with long-running litigation against GVDC’s former managing director for an account of profits, compensation for breaches of fiduciary duty and damages for deceit and conspiracy.
  • Polly Peck - Advising the Joint Administrators on a range of issues arising out of this 30-year administration, including dealings with the SFO, the countless frauds of its former CEO, Asil Nadir and facilitating the unusual exit process.
  • Gulf Keystone – advising a listed E&P oil company on potentially contentious issues, where the principal asset was a substantial oilfield in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
  • On various issues in relation to regulated entities in distress, including Schemes of Arrangement involving companies operating in the sub-prime market.

Education

  • 2004 - Legal Practice Course (Commendation), Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 2003 - LLB (2:1), University of Nottingham, Nottingham