Michael Barker

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  www.jdjournal.com/tag/foreign-offices/ - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 5/21/2009  

  Michael Barker will focus on restructuring and insolvency work. At Appleby, Barker headed the Hong Kong bank and structured finance team. He was formerly an insolvency partner in the Hong Kong office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Barker specializes in advising [...]

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  www.thelawyer.com/herbies-launches-hong-kong-restructur - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/7/2009    Last Visited: 4/7/2009  

  Herbert Smith has launched an insolvency and restructuring practice in Hong Kong after hiring Appleby partner Michael Barker.
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  Barker, who joined Appleby in 2007 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, specialises in insolvency and restructuring and will launch the firm's non-contentious restructuring and insolvency practice in the China region.
  
  Herbert Smith Asia head Ashley Alder said: "An increasing number of financial institutions and corporates in Asia are now looking for big-ticket restructuring and insolvency advice and the timely hire of Michael will allow us to offer them precisely that."
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  Before joining Appleby, Barker was head of Freshfields' Asia regional insolvency and restructuring group.

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  www.financeasia.com/article.aspx?CIaNID=100522 - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 4/8/2009  

  Herbert Smith joins the crowd of law firms that are building their restructuring teams by hiring Michael Barker as a partner focused on restructuring and insolvency work.
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  Herbert Smith has hired Michael Barker as a partner focusing on restructuring and insolvency work in Hong Kong, according to a press release yesterday.
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  Barker joins from Appleby in Hong Kong, where he has been a partner since 2007. Prior to that he was a partner and regional practice group head at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he focused on restructurings, insolvency and other distressed situations across the Asia region. Qualified in Hong Kong, England, Wales and Bermuda, Barker specialises in advising creditors, debtors and investors on high-end, non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters.
  
  Barker will be responsible for launching Herbert Smith's non-contentious restructuring and insolvency practice in the China region and across Asia.
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  "An increasing number of financial institutions and corporates in Asia are now looking for big-ticket restructuring and insolvency advice and the timely hire of Michael will allow us to offer them precisely that," says Ashley Alder, head of Asia for Herbert Smith.

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  www.ci.tamarac.fl.org/China-Bankruptcy-Lawyer.html?afdt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/29/2007    Last Visited: 3/29/2007  

  Michael Barker is a bankruptcy lawyer for the international firm, Freshfields, Bruckhaus and Deringer.

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  www.legal500.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/13/2007    Last Visited: 9/13/2007  

  Restructuring partner Michael Barker left to join Appleby Hunter Bailhache in 2006, while Asia managing partner Perry Noble also returned to London.

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  www.thelawyer.com/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsect - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/9/2009    Last Visited: 5/9/2009  

  Herbert Smith has launched an insolvency and restructuring practice in Hong Kong after hiring Appleby partner Michael Barker.

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  Appleby Hunter Bailhache - Appleby Personnel - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/20/2006    Last Visited: 12/20/2006  

  Michael Barker
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  Michael Barker is Counsel and practices a full range of corporate/commercial law, in particular specialising in banking & asset finance, re-organisation, schemes of arrangements, securitisations & structured finance, insolvency & restructuring, derivatives and project finance.
  
  Prior to joining the group in 2006, Michael was a partner and regional practice group head at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with particular focus on restructuring & insolvency, reconstructions and schemes of arrangement.
  
  Michael holds a bachelor of arts in law from Cambridge University.He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1990 and in Hong Kong in 1994.He remains a non-practising member of the Law Society in each of these jurisdictions.He is also a member of INSOL and Hong Kong's Insolvency Interest Group.

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  Articles & Cases - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/17/2006    Last Visited: 7/24/2009  

  In January 1995, Mike Barker bought and restored a pickup truck which was subsequently stolen for his lot. He reported the loss to the police and claimed $10,000 under his Zurich Life insurance policy. The adjuster questioned the loss and alerted the insurance Crime Prevention Bureau who, in turn, alerted police.
  
  Several months later, the car was found partly submerged in water. Reasoning that the claim had not been paid and that urgent restoration was needed to prevent permanent damage, Barker towed the pickup and had it dismantled and drained.
  
  Zurich Life denied the claim, arguing Barker had violated the policy not only by denying them the ability to inspect the vehicle but also for making unauthorized repairs. Barker sued the insured for the $10,000 purchase price and cost of restoration. At trial, Zurich Life's statement of defence made explicit for the first time that the initial adjuster, after developing personal hostility to Mr. Barker during a previous claim, suspected that the auto sell ran a 'chop-shop' which dismantled vehicles, sold the parts and claimed they were stolen.
  
  Mr. Barker's lawyer then amended the statement of claim to include damages for "reprehensible, scandalous, and outrageous treatment," noting that their report to police and other insurers about alleged criminal acts substantially increased Mr. Barker's insurance rates and would affect his future insurability.

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  Bankruptcy & Insolvency - Leading Lawyers Survey 2001 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/30/2002    Last Visited: 11/30/2002  

  According to Leading Lawyer Michael Barker of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hong Kong will struggle along throughout 2001 because of the shake out in the world economy (particularly in the dotcom sector).The non-implementation of the new legislation may mean that it will remain quite difficult for some companies to restructure.However, as the old economy buys up the new economy, with dotcoms especially either choosing to liquidate as shareholders give up or are acquired, insolvency work seems to be a solid bet for the coming year.

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  Blumberg Segal LLP : Articles & Cases - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/17/2004    Last Visited: 11/6/2004  

  In January 1995, Mike Barker bought and restored a pickup truck which wassubsequently stolen for his lot.He reported the loss to the police andclaimed $10,000 under his Zurich Life insurance policy.The adjusterquestioned the loss and alerted the insurance Crime Prevention Bureau who,in turn, alerted police.
  
  Several months later, the car was found partly submerged in water.Reasoning that the claim had not been paid and that urgent restoration wasneeded to prevent permanent damage, Barker towed the pickup and had itdismantled and drained.
  
  Zurich Life denied the claim, arguing Barker had violated the policy notonly by denying them the ability to inspect the vehicle but also for makingunauthorized repairs.Barker sued the insured for the $10,000 purchaseprice and cost of restoration.At trial, Zurich Life's statement of defencemade explicit for the first time that the initial adjuster, afterdeveloping personal hostility to Mr. Barker during a previous claim,suspected that the auto sell ran a ‘chop-shop' which dismantled vehicles,sold the parts and claimed they were stolen.
  
  Mr. Barker's lawyer then amended the statement of claim to include damagesfor "reprehensible, scandalous, and outrageous treatment," noting that their

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