Profile: Ken Baird

Insolvency and Restructuring

Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Since 1996, Ken Baird has been in the firm's restructuring and insolvency practice. Early experience in asset finance was followed by secondment to Deloitte & Touche Special Lending Services in 1990. Ken advised Air Europe prior to its administration. Ken also advised the provisional liquidators of BCCI in the initial stages of the bank's collapse.

In recent years Ken has specialised in transactions with a cross-border flavour. Transactions include: the ICO satellite mobile phone reconstruction involving US chapter 11 procedures, common law provisional liquidations and a number of creditor schemes designed to give effect to the chapter 11 plan outside the US; the successful work out of a Latvia-based bank (Rigas Komercbanka, now known as First Latvian Commercial Bank); advising on the liquidation of Boo.com (the UK's first major internet insolvency); and advising the officeholders on a number of telecom insolvencies/restructurings, notably of 360 networks (a fibre optic carrier), Flag Telecom and the supervisors of the Marconi Scheme of Arrangement.

Ken is co-author of the cross-border issues chapter of Tolley's Insolvency Law with Peter Bloxham. He is a regular speaker at conferences on cross-border and high-technology insolvencies and reconstructions.

Ken is the current president of the Insolvency Lawyers Association.

Born in 1964, Ken was educated at the University of Glasgow, and is qualified as a solicitor in both England and Scotland.