Kon is “the best operator in the market. Leads the business from the front. He is always strategic, always hustling and always relevant in the market. He is a master tactician and laser focused on delivering results.”
- Legal 500 UK, 2023
Kon Asimacopoulos is a partner in Kirkland’s market-leading European Restructuring Group and acts for companies and investors in national and cross-border financial restructuring, insolvency and litigation matters. He has been involved in dozens of the leading global and European restructuring and litigation matters over the course of the past 25 years and has been ranked among the top lawyers in his field for most of his career. Kon is widely known for his crisis management, media relations and strategic advice. Kon speaks regularly at restructuring and distressed investing conferences, and is often quoted in financial and legal media on restructuring, insolvency and distressed-related subjects.
External Recognition:
Chambers UK: Band 1 in Restructuring/Insolvency, 2025
The Legal 500 UK: Hall of Fame in Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency, 2025
Chambers UK: Band 1 in Restructuring/Insolvency - UK, 2024
Legal 500: Hall of Fame in Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency, 2024
IFLR 1000: Market Leader in Restructuring and Insolvency, 2023
Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader and Global Elite Thought Leader, Restructuring & Insolvency, 2022
Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers
Experience
Prior Experience
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, London, UK
July 2002 to December 2005
Gilbert & Tobin, Sydney, Australia May 2000 to June 2002
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Thought Leadership
Kon has recently authored or co-authored a number of publications and client updates, including the following:
Exercising Change - CVAs, Practice & Law, 18 October 2014
Court of Appeal in European Directories Restructuring Clarifies Intercreditor Release Powers, Financier Worldwide, January 2011.
A chapter on U.S. Restructuring for European Investors in the leading restructuring publication A Practitioner's Guide to Corporate Restructuring, City & Financial, 2008.
China's New Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, Journal of Bankruptcy Law, January/February 2007.
Impact of UNCITRAL Model Law on Chapter 11 Debtors in the UK, Financier Worldwide, September 2006.
Court Conduct - The Flexible Approach of the English High Court to European Insolvencies, Legal Week, 28 September 2006.
Recognition
Recognised in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 as a leading corporate restructuring and insolvency lawyer.
Media References
Kon is frequently quoted and referred to in leading financial and legal publications including as follows:
