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Yen Sum, Global Chair of the Private Capital Practice, is a member of the firm’s Direct Lending & Private Credit and Restructuring & Special Situations Practices. She has over 20 years of experience advising on financings, buyouts, reorganizations, and restructurings.

Yen has considerable experience advising senior management, private equity sponsors, credit funds, and hedge funds on financial and operational restructurings, special situations, and alternative investments across the capital structure. She also advises on associated M&A and buyouts, acquisition finance, and fund investments.

Yen is particularly focused on cross-border structures or those requiring new or innovative thinking and multifaceted solutions across corporate balance sheets as well as managing divergent stakeholder interests. She has led or has been involved in a number of notable and prominent transactions including investments within multi-layered capital structures, public and private securities, schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans, security enforcements, UK administrations and Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs), US chapter 11, and in and out of court proceedings in France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and equivalent processes in other jurisdictions.

Yen also spent several years as an investment professional in Barclays Capital’s Leveraged Finance business, where she was involved in numerous buyouts, refinancings, and recapitalizations.

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Head of Simpson Thacher’s U.K. Tax Practice, Yash Rupal represents a broad range of U.K. and international corporate clients, financial institutions, investment funds, hedge funds, asset managers and their respective executives on complicated, often cross-border, mergers and acquisitions, investment funds structuring and tax planning matters. He also advises extensively on tax disputes, tax litigation and HMRC enquiries. Yash has more than 30 years of tax experience.

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Yagmur is a partner in our Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team. She advises and represents individuals in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases.

Yagmur regularly acts for adults and children who have suffered catastrophic and life-changing injuries. In the last two years, Yagmur has settled claims worth an aggregate total of over ?30 million, on a capitalised basis. Recent cases include high-value settlements for a child with cerebral palsy, an adult who received a seven-figure settlement arising out of an Occupier’s Liability Claim, a case for a woman who sustained significant and life-changing fourth degree tears during labour, an upper limb amputee, and a young adult whose professional career was derailed following a serious accident at work.

Yagmur is named in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom in both Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Litigation, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Junior Lawyer of the Year category at the Law Society’s Excellence Awards.

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William Burke is a partner in Kirkland’s London office and practices in Kirkland’s Capital Markets Group. He has extensive experience in U.S. and international finance and capital markets transactions. He has represented issuers and sponsors both in the U.S. and abroad with respect to high yield offerings, registered equity offerings, investment grade offerings, restructurings, debt tender/consent solicitations, private placements and preferred securities offerings. William also represents private equity sponsors and other clients in acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and material commercial agreements.

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Winston is an experienced funds lawyer who advises clients on investment management law and regulation with an emphasis on alternative investment funds, their investment managers, investors and service providers.

Institutional investors and pension schemes turn to him for advice in connection with their fund allocations, co-investments, fund-of-one structures and bespoke arrangements.

Winston also assists both institutional investors and investment managers with non-structured discretionary investment management and structured managed account investments across asset classes.

Winston’s clients include UK investment managers, US investment advisors, UK pension schemes, US State Plans and investment banks.

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Will specialises in commercial property and regulatory matters. Particular areas of practice include real estate acquisitions and disposals (including leasehold structures), and advising on construction and development projects. Will also advises on local property financing transactions (both commercial and residential).

Will acts for a number of international investors, local businesses and financial institutions, on a broad range of commercial property transactions. He is regularly instructed on commercial real estate financing transactions, and provides local procurement, planning and regulatory advice on development and construction projects. Will also advises on property aspects of corporate acquisitions including due diligence reviews and reports on property interests.

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Will specialises in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and public international law, and has particular expertise in the extractives, TMT and projects sectors. He has represented parties, as counsel and advocate, in numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitral proceedings, including before ICC, LCIA, CAS, ICSID and UNCITRAL tribunals. Will has also acted for parties in proceedings before the International Court of Justice and the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.

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William is a partner and head of the funds and financial services group advising on the launch, reconstruction, takeover and investments of funds and trading companies.

William has many years of experience in all aspects of real estate, private equity, split capital, emerging market, hedge and listed, offshore alternative investment funds as well as advising managers, brokers, nomads and sponsors. He has been rated as a leader in his field by various directories for many years.

William has recently been inducted to the 2018 Legal 500 Hall of fame as a result of his continued recognition by the directory. The Chambers UK 2017 legal directory describes William as having a "mastery of closed-end funds" that few in the market can match. Sources also say: "He's pragmatic, commercial, with a thorough working knowledge of the area," while remaining "brilliant when the going gets tough."