Yen Sum
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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About
Provided by Yen Sum
Practice Areas
Yen Sum, Global Chair of the Private Capital Practice, is a member of the firm’s Direct Lending & Private Credit and Restructuring & Special Situations Practices. She has over 20 years of experience advising on financings, buyouts, reorganizations, and restructurings.
Yen has considerable experience advising senior management, private equity sponsors, credit funds, and hedge funds on financial and operational restructurings, special situations, and alternative investments across the capital structure. She also advises on associated M&A and buyouts, acquisition finance, and fund investments.
Yen is particularly focused on cross-border structures or those requiring new or innovative thinking and multifaceted solutions across corporate balance sheets as well as managing divergent stakeholder interests. She has led or has been involved in a number of notable and prominent transactions including investments within multi-layered capital structures, public and private securities, schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, security enforcements, UK administrations and Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs), US chapter 11, and in and out of court proceedings in France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and equivalent processes in other jurisdictions.
Yen also spent several years as an investment professional in Barclays Capital’s Leveraged Finance business, where she was involved in numerous buyouts, refinancings, and recapitalizations.
Chambers Review
UK
Yen Sum is noted for her skill in handling matters spanning restructuring, special situations and distressed M&A. She acts for all manner of clients, including both debtors and creditors, with notable experience assisting lenders and bondholders.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Yen is one of the best - she has a deep reservoir of knowledge, she's hugely commercial and she's excellent at managing relationships. She is one of the top-tier creative minds and solution providers."
"Yen rates highly in terms of her commercial awareness, service and sophistication."
"She's a great lawyer - she's responsive, commercial, but most importantly highly trusted."
"Yen is one of the best - she has a deep reservoir of knowledge, she's hugely commercial and she's excellent at managing relationships. She is one of the top-tier creative minds and solution providers."
"Yen rates highly in terms of her commercial awareness, service and sophistication."
"She's a great lawyer - she's responsive, commercial, but most importantly highly trusted."