His experience includes company-side, as well as lender and creditor-side, financial advisory work. Kim is able to undertake independent business reviews, financial viability assessments, contingency planning and options analysis, and counterparty due diligence. 

Specialisms

Recent assignment highlights

• Joint Official Liquidator of Cayman Island entities connected to the 1MDB Malaysian sovereign fraud. Supporting workstreams for connected BVI liquidations to ultimately recover assets for the Malaysian government.
• Led the Additional Joint Official Liquidation of two financially viable Segregated Portfolios operating in the captive insurance sector
• Led the Administration and Creditors Trust for an ASX listed alternate energy company including the sale of IP, the facility and the listed shell resulting in 100+ cents in the dollar return to creditors.
• Supported the Receivership of non-bank lender owing A$143m to 3,500 note holders resulting in 90+ cents in the dollar return to note holders.
• Led selected group of “Alan Bond” liquidations (ongoing) being one of Australia’s longest running and, at the time, biggest corporate insolvencies in history.
• Supported the Administration of a large financial services group including corporate trustee, financial planning, responsible entity and superannuation trustee services. Key tasks involved preserving the highly regulated financial licensing to enable continued trading and the ultimate sale as a going concern.

Sectors

• Financial services
• Insurance
• Agribusiness
• Property
• Government

Kim has recently co-authored the Cayman Islands chapter in the Law Reviews 11th annual Insolvency Review publication. You can view the chapter here.