Kit Johnson
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Legal 500 UK (2019)'very responsive, commercial and pragmatic'
Kit Johnson practices within our Debt Capital Markets team. Kit has extensive experience advising corporate trustees across the whole spectrum of capital markets, structured finance and other debt products. Regarded as a market leading practice, our trustee team helps our clients on both new issuance and post-issuance matters, with a particular aptitude for guiding trustees involved with distressed debt situations and inter-creditor disputes.
Legal 500 UK has described Kit as 'professional, prudent and outgoing' and states that he 'shows deep understanding of trustees'. Chambers UK states that Kit offers 'excellent technical skills' combined with a 'good commercial approach'.
Legal 500 UK 2014'professional, prudent and outgoing with deep understanding of trustees'
Representative experience
Advising the trustee of the U.S.$12.5bn Dante MISOP Programme which collapsed following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Advising the trustee of the defaulted £638m Commercial Mortgage Backed Notes issued by Titan Europe 2007-1 (NHP) Limited.
Advising the trustee on the restructuring of the outstanding debt of Towergate Finance PLC under an English law Scheme of Arrangement.
Advising the trustee in relation to the defaulted bonds issued by Bakrie Telecom, including advising with respect to the Indonesian bankruptcy (PKPU) process.
Credentials
Education
- LPC, The College of Law, London, 1997
- CPE, City, University of London, 1995
- Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton, 1994
Publications
Insights and Analysis
19 November 2020
News
Press releases
24 April 2024
Press releases
26 October 2022