Ian Chapman
Partner
Hong Kong

Ian Chapman
Partner
Hong Kong
Contact details
Ian is a partner in our Restructuring and Recovery Group and has over three decades of frontline experience assisting banks and bondholders on many of the most complex and high profile restructurings in the Asia Pacific region.
Ian has an enviable track record of restructuring publicly-owned and private companies across the region, dealing extensively with multi-bank restructurings of multi-national debtor groups. He also has considerable experience in advising on cross border and distressed debt situations generally, including as to settlement; recovery and enforcement strategies; business and asset reorganization; distressed debt and NPL disposals; and receivership and liquidation administrations.
From 2004 to 2010, Ian was appointed by the HKSAR Chief Executive to the Deposit Protection Board established under the Deposit Protection Scheme Ordinance to formulate and implement procedures to protect small depositors in case of bank failure in Hong Kong.
Ian has repeatedly been named a Leading Banking and a Leading Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer by numerous legal publications, including the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, Asia Pacific Legal 500, IFLR1000, AsiaLaw & Practice Survey and Chambers Asia. He has consistently been named a Tier 1 lawyer in the banking and restructuring fields by leading legal directories and as a “Senior Statesman” by Chambers Asia Pacific.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 1980
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1980
Academic
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 1980
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1980