Clarissa is counsel in our global restructuring group based in Dubai. She joined Allen & Overy in 2003 and has worked in Allen & Overy's London and Hong Kong offices prior to relocating to Dubai in 2011. She has over 12 years of experience specialising in corporate restructuring, rescues and insolvency, acting for banks and other financial institutions, bondholders, corporates and insolvency practitioners on both non-contentious and contentious work. She is also active in providing advice in the distressed debt and claims trading space (including single trades and loan portfolios) and has advised banks and other financial institutions on distressed disposals as well as acquisitions and investments (including both equity and debt) across Europe, the U.S., Asia-Pacific and more, recently, the Middle East, in particular the UAE and Kuwait.