Ian Chapman
Partner
Hong Kong
Ian Chapman
Partner
Hong Kong
Contact details
Ian is a partner in our APAC Restructuring and Recovery Group and has over three decades of frontline experience advising on many of the most complex and high-profile restructurings in the Asia Pacific region.
He has an enviable track record of restructuring listed and private group 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.
Ian has consistently been ranked as a top tier restructuring and insolvency lawyer, is named in The Legal 500, Asia Pacific "Hall of Fame"and ranked "Senior Statesman" by Chambers Asia-Pacific. Between 2004 to 2010, Ian was an appointed member of the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board established under the Deposit Protection Scheme Ordinance.
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
Academic
