Margaret Fong

Margaret Fong is a senior associate in Herbert Smith Freehills’ restructuring, turnaround and insolvency team. Margaret is an experienced lawyer specialising in restructuring, insolvency and special situations, with extensive experience across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious restructurings.Before joining Herbert Smith Freehills, she practised for a number of years at a leading US international law firm in London where she advised on major cross-border restructurings and insolvencies throughout Europe.Margaret’s recent transactions include advising an international bank in respect of the Indonesian PKPU of Royal Industries, the senior lenders in the restructuring of BIS Industries and its A$1.3 billion debt facilities, the potential enforcement and ultimate distressed sale of a US$25 million facility owed by Wollongong Coal.Margaret is also the coordinator and an editor of the Herbert Smith Freehills’ Guide to Restructuring, Turnaround and Insolvency in Asia Pacific.