Leona Healey
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Leona Healey

Registered Foreign Lawyer, WA

Email

leona.healey@aoshearman.com

Phone

+852 2974 7510

Offices

Hong Kong SAR

V-CARD
Leona is a restructuring and insolvency specialist with extensive cross-border experience.

Leona is a key member of our restructuring and insolvency practice.  With over a decade of experience, she provides strategic advice to clients navigating complex financial distress across the APAC region and has also advised on matters involving major offshore financial centres.  Leona has played a critical role in a range of high-profile restructurings, acting for commercial banks, investment banks, insolvency practitioners, listed companies, directors, and shareholders.  She has notably acted for the creditor steering committees in the recent wave of distressed Chinees real estate developer restructurings.  Her fluency in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese enables her to support clients on multi-jurisdictional cases.

Leona is recognised for her commitment to the profession, serving as Co-Chairperson of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (Hong Kong) since 2024.  In 2023, she was a finalist for the IWIRC Rising Star Award.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • Acting for the co-ordination committee of lenders under certain syndicated facilities to Sino-Ocean Group Holding Limited to effect a holistic restructuring of the group’s offshore debts.
  • Acting for the co-ordination committee of lenders under certain syndicated facilities to Shimao Group Holdings Limited to effect a holistic restructuring of the group’s offshore debts.
  • Acting for the co-ordination committee of lenders under certain syndicated and bilateral facilities to China Aoyuan Group Limited to effect a holistic restructuring of the group’s offshore debts.
  • Acting for the facility agent on behalf of the lenders under certain syndicated facilities to KWG Group Holdings Limited.

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Co-Chairperson of the Board of the Hong Kong Network, International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation

Awards

  • Rising Star Award 2023 Finalist – International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.