Lorinda Peasland

Lorinda Peasland is a Partner in the Corporate Department of Appleby’s Hong Kong office.

Lorinda is an international restructuring specialist with over 30 years’ onshore and offshore experience in cross-border restructuring, insolvency, special situations and workouts of distressed companies and financial institutions, advising banks, funds, accountancy firms, leading onshore law firms and regulators. She has extensive experience in dealing with various types of financial instruments and structures. Her practice encompasses both contentious and non-contentious finance-related matters, as well as banking and asset based lending within the distressed corporate climate. She regularly advises on exit and enforcement strategy. Her contentious litigation works encompasses working for corporates, funds, Insolvency Practitioners and financial institutions She also has significant experience in all aspects of offshore schemes of arrangement and has acted in many of the key reported cases in the cross-border arena.

Over her career she has advised creditors in relation to the first global bank collapse of a bank incorporated in the Cayman Islands, acted for the Special Administrator in a Central Bank Intervention in Cyprus and lead the work out of the portfolio of a European bank in wind down.

She has many reported cases on novel points of law to her name.