Kay Morley-Evans

About My Work

Kay is a partner our Restructuring and Special Situations group in London. Kay has extensive experience advising stakeholders on all aspects of corporate insolvency, financial restructuring, distressed investing and strategic M & A. Kay regularly acts for private credit funds, capital solutions funds, private equity sponsors, CLOs, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers and financial institutions. Kay’s sector expertise includes real estate, TMT, healthcare and life sciences, energy and renewables and financial services.

Ms. Morley is consistently recommended by Chambers UK and The Legal 500 UK in corporate restructuring and insolvency, in addition to being recognized as a “notable practitioner” by the International Law Review. She is ranked in the 2022 edition of Chambers UK for restructuring/insolvency, with one client stating “Kay is remarkable. She is calm, measured and unflappable – qualities you need in spades in the restructuring space,” while another remarks “she is a very technical and impressive performer.” She is also noted for her expertise in corporate restructuring and insolvency by The Legal 500 UK 2022.

Notable Experience

• HNA Ecological Technology Group on the cross-border restructuring of the air freight and logistics business, Swissport.
• L Brands, Inc. in its partnership with Next PLC for its company-owned Victoria's Secret business in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
• Colin Hardman and Kevin Ley of Smith & Williamson in their capacity as joint administrators of The Raphael Medical Centre Limited (in administration) and Glenside Manor Healthcare Services Limited (in administration) in connection with the pre-pack sale of the companies' businesses and assets.
• Lucid Trustee Services Limited, as agent and security agent, in connection with the £450 million debt and equity restructuring of the Survitec Group, a specialist in the manufacturing of survival and safety solutions in the marine, defense, aviation, and offshore industries in various jurisdictions.
• Matthew Smith and Neville Kahn of Deloitte LLP in their capacity as joint administrators of European paper business Paperlinx on the administration and subsequent sale of the Paperlinx business.
• An ad hoc group of senior lenders on the US$1 billion restructuring of the Syncreon group, which was implemented using an English scheme of arrangement.
• Triton on the US$1 billion restructuring of German industrial group Galapagos group.
• An ad hoc committee of senior noteholders on the restructuring of Algeco.

Memberships & Qualifications

• The College of Law, Guildford, Legal Practice Course, 2000
• University of Bristol, LL.M., 1998
• University of Bristol, LL.B. (Hons), 1997