Senior Statespeople
Provided by John M Marsden
ohn Marsden represents clients in commercial and corporate financing matters; non-performing loan disposals; and large-scale, multi-jurisdictional restructurings or insolvencies such as the Asia Pulp and Paper, Pacific Andes, Sapura, Cell C, Lehman Brothers, and Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group transactions.
During a three-year placement in the Shanghai office, John advised on substantial property acquisition and financing transactions.
Clients served by John include most of the prominent regional financial institutions and financial advisers.
John has been named a Band 1 Restructuring and Insolvency Lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific (2013-2021), Market Leader in Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000 (2018-2023) and Leading Lawyer in Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000 (2010-2017). Chambers Asia Pacific (2018) described John as he provides an “aggressive and punchy service, but is very commercial too”. John is also recognised as one of the 120 “Asia Best Lawyers” by IFLR1000 (2019-2021).
International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
Member of the International Committee of the American College of Bankruptcy
Member of the International Insolvency Institute
Member of INSOL International
Member of the Australian Restructuring and Turnaround Association
Sapura
Advised the financial creditors to the debtor group on the companies’ consensual restructuring proposal. The assets of the debtor group are located all around the world. The restructuring is therefore necessarily global, involving entities, business, and operations in more than 20 countries. The geographic sprawl of the debtor group makes this restructuring particularly complex.
Genting
Advised the seven-bank ad hoc steering committee representing all major banking creditors to Genting Hong Kong Limited’s cruise, ship construction, gaming operation and associated businesses. The committee represented more than 30 bank lenders and credit support providers in the US$3.5 billion debt restructuring of Hong Kong listed Genting Hong Kong Limited.
The University of New South Wales
BSc (Hons)
The University of Adelaide
LLB (Hons)
Provided by Chambers
John Marsden heads Mayer Brown's restructuring practice. He regularly works for banks, liquidators and receivers on high-profile and multi-jurisdictional restructurings and insolvencies.
Provided by Chambers
John is very experienced and practical, easy to talk to and readily available for ad hoc advisory calls.
He's very trusted and high quality.
His in-depth analysis of complex agreements combined with his tenacity were instrumental in identifying a legal claim, the pursuit of which led to a sizable recovery.
John is very experienced and practical, easy to talk to and readily available for ad hoc advisory calls.
He's very trusted and high quality.
His in-depth analysis of complex agreements combined with his tenacity were instrumental in identifying a legal claim, the pursuit of which led to a sizable recovery.
