Jared Green

Partner
Head of Restructuring, Singapore
Jared Green is careful when considering issues and provides practical advice.
— Chambers & Partners, Asia-Pacific
Singapore
About

Jared Green leads our Singapore office’s Restructuring team. Jared has over 15 years' experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency assignments, acting for a variety of stakeholders in stressed and distressed situations including lenders, funds, corporates, directors, professional advisers and officeholders in respect of Asian and global restructuring and insolvency matters, leveraged finance transactions and special situations. Jared's practice and expertise extend to advising on non-performing loan trades (single name and portfolios) as well as trading of distressed loans and claims. 

Areas of FocusRestructuringFinanceFinancial ServicesConsumer Goods, Food and RetailIndustrialsEnergy and Natural Resources
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Acting for a leading FMCG and food & agri-business company with an estimated debt size of USD1.5 billion in its ongoing global restructuring exercise.
  • Acting for the Chapter 7 Trustee of Zetta Jet USA, Inc and Zetta Pte Ltd, a luxury private airline headquartered in Singapore with US operations.
  • Acting for the Liquidators of a Singapore-incorporated cryptocurrency company with an estimated debt size of approx. SGD270 million.
  • Advising on the Singapore-related aspects of KBS Real Estate Investment Trust's USD2 billion out-of-court restructuring involving seven lender groups and 15 office buildings that it pledged as collateral.
  • Advising the Liquidators of a Cayman-incorporated intermediate holding company of a multi-jurisdictional engineering group on the distressed disposal of parts of the group's business, involving cross-border intercreditor issues, including the release of certain secured liabilities and security in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, PRC and Malaysia.
  • Advising the Administrators of NMC Health PLC on the secondary loan trades of certain exit instruments related to the post-restructured group's business.
  • Advising a US fund on its debt enforcement options in relation to a Cayman-incorporated company, involving service of a statutory demand and application to wind up the debtor in Singapore in respect of approx. USD4m convertible bond liabilities.
  • Advising the Liquidators of a Hong Kong company with the recognition application pursuant to the Cooperation Mechanism between Hong Kong and the PRC.
  • Advising the German real estate group Fürst (also known as Aggregate) on a UK Part 26A restructuring plan pursued by its Luxembourg holding company to restructure EUR1 billion in German law-governed debt.
  • Representing a major creditor in respect of defaulted USD notes issued by HKSE-listed PRC real estate group China Aoyuan Group Limited.
  • Advising the Singapore court-appointed Receivers and Managers of two Singapore-incorporated companies and the related sale of their assets in respect of a sub-sea cable network.
  • Advising a Singapore-based investment fund on its secured financing arrangements to a Swiss-listed bio-pharma company and related security enforcement over the borrower group’s assets in the US, Switzerland and Australia.
  • Advising a US-listed technology outsourcing group with the liquidation and disolution process for one of its subsidiaries in the Philippines, including advising the shareholder with regards to criminal actions taken against the former directors.
  • Advising a minority shareholder and company in relation to the restructuring of its mining group operations in Australia and the Philippines.
  • Advising the officeholders in the BVI and Cayman Islands in respect of an insolvent crypto currency fund.

Awards

  • Ranked as Up and Coming for Restructuring/Insolvency: International by Chambers Asia Pacific, 2026
Education
  • University of West of England, Bristol, Legal Practice Course, 2006
  • University of Wales, Cardiff, LLB (Hons), 2004

Publications

  • When ignorance isn't bliss: directors' duties in the spotlight again in Singapore, 17 September 2024
  • Singapore Court of Appeal adds clarity to directors’ duties, 17 April 2024
  • Evergrande commences 2023’s largest chapter 15 filing, 30 August 2023
  • Ascentra Holdings, Inc – a Model answer? 26 April 2023
  • Turbulent Times for Hong Kong Airlines - DLA Piper Investment Rules of the World, November 2022
  • Gategroup: Planning and scheming - are super schemes actually insolvency proceedings? 23 February 2021
  • The New Pre-pack Regulations – Controls on Transactions to Connected Parties, 14 April 2021
  • UK Corporate Insolvency & Governance Act: Termination Clauses In Supply Contracts, 28 September 2020
  • Chapter 11 of an English Company - 19 Entertainment Limited, July 2016

Prior Experience

  • 2024 to date, Partner, Singapore (Finance)
  • 2022 to 2024, Of Counsel, DLA Piper, Singapore (Finance, Projects & Restructuring)
  • 2019 to 2022, Legal Director, DLA Piper, London (Finance, Projects and Restructuring)
  • 2014 to 2019, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, London (Restructuring Group)
  • 2009 to 2014, Associate, DLA Piper, London (Restructuring Group)
  • 2007 to 2009, Trainee Solicitor, DLA Piper (London and Singapore)

Additional Experience

  • November 2012 to August 2013, Seconded to the Global Non-Core - Ireland team with Lloyds Bank plc.
  • January to July 2017, Seconded to the Opportunities Unit within Business Recovery Services at PwC, London; tracking large and mid-cap businesses and the European high yield bond market trying to predict corporate failure and secure restructuring mandates.
  • February to March 2019, Seconded to the DLA Piper Munich office to augment relationships with the firm's German clients, explore restructuring opportunities in the German market and develop his network in the country.

Memberships And Affiliations

  • The Law Society of England and Wales
  • Turnaround and Management Association (Singapore)
  • IWIRC (Singapore)
  • INSOL International (Singapore)
  • Registered Foreign Lawyer in Singapore under Section 36C of the Legal Profession Act 2015

My latest insights

Publication

Big waves in restructuring: Sino Ocean plan sanctioned in England and Hong Kong

21 February 2025 .15 minute read

Publication

Insight: Japan to introduce a new type of security interest the ‘Enterprise Value Charge’

29 November 2024 .11 minute read

Publication

From Hong Kong to England and back, Sino Ocean's voyage - plain sailing or choppy waters?

15 November 2024 .20 minute read

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