Luke Mason
Lawyers
Associate in our Restructuring practice, based in London.
Luke advises on a broad range of restructuring and insolvency matters and has worked on complex cross-border restructurings involving companies and stakeholders based in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Latin America and beyond. He works with clients all around the capital structure, advising sponsors, debtors, creditors, agents and strategic investors on restructurings of stressed and distressed businesses.
Experience
Luke’s representations include*:
- Sino Ocean on its English restructuring plan and Hong Kong scheme of arrangement
- Atento on its successful restructuring and capital raise implemented by two parallel English Restructuring Plans
- Coupang in the completion of its acquisition of the business and assets of Farfetch Holdings plc via a pre-pack administration
- TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group and of CarTrawler via a consensual restructuring
- GLAS on numerous matters, including in connection with the:
- acquisition of the shares in Inter Milan Football Club by Oaktree Capital
- restructuring of Galapagos Holding S.A.
- Modern Land (China) in the restructuring of its $1.34 billion offshore dollar-denominated notes
- Travelex on its financial and operational restructuring via a pre-packaged administration sale
(*some of the above matters were handled by Luke prior to joining Davis Polk)
Education
M.A., Law, University of Cambridge
Qualifications and admissions
- England and Wales