Claire Fulton

Overview

I am a Partner at Mourant Ozannes (Hong Kong) LLP.  I have extensive finance and restructuring experience, advising major financial institutions, creditors, corporations, private equity and hedge funds and insolvency practitioners on a range of transactions throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

I specialise in advising clients on realising value in distressed situations, including security enforcements, special situations, debt restructurings and voluntary liquidations, and am regularly approached to advise on offshore statutory merger regimes.

I have significant experience helping clients on a broad range of banking and finance transactions, including cross-border leveraged buyouts, public-to-private acquisitions, bilateral and syndicated loans, real estate finance and structured finance.

Prior to joining Mourant Ozannes, I spent six years with Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, where I also worked on secondment for UBS and HSBC.

I am the former chair of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association's Women in the Loan Market Asia committee. I’m also a board member of the Hong Kong branch of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Professional qualifications

• Solicitor, Hong Kong (currently non-practising)
• Solicitor, New Zealand (currently non-practising)
• Solicitor, Scotland (currently non-practising)

What the directories say

In Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific 2024, Claire is individually ranked as Up and Coming in Offshore: Dispute Resolution. She is described as "a great operator" who is "very switched on and attuned to market developments."

In Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2023, Claire is ranked as a Leading Individual. A source quoted in the guide says: "We have worked with Claire on numerous banking and finance transactions across the Asia-Pacific region and her team’s attention to detail, client focus, and solution focused approach is very refreshing."

In Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific 2023, Claire is recognised as an Up and Coming lawyer. 

"Very responsive and understood the issues at hand." GRR 100 2022. 

"The excellent Claire Fulton is experienced, hard-working, helpful, and client-friendly." Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2021.

Claire Fulton is described as having "experience in the leveraged finance space meaning she is well aware of the issues and pressures felt by onshore lawyers on leveraged buyouts." Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, 2019.