Restructuring and insolvency
Our range of services includes:
- Restructurings: Advising debtors, senior and subordinated secured and unsecured creditors (including creditor committees and individual lenders) and directors in connection with all aspects of domestic and cross-border corporate restructurings, including schemes of arrangement, debt refinancings and reschedulings, covenant resets, debt to equity swaps, new money injections and rescue equity issues.
- Insolvency proceedings: Advising insolvency practitioners and senior and subordinated secured and unsecured creditors on structuring and implementing insolvency proceedings including administration, receivership, voluntary arrangements, liquidation and coordinating cross-border proceedings.
- Distressed and special situations investments: Advising investment funds in structuring and implementing investments in distressed multitiered capital structures, drawing on the expertise of our private equity and leveraged finance specialists, in particular, with regard to intercreditor arrangements.
- Distressed M&A: Working alongside our highly rated private equity and M&A lawyers, assisting investors in evaluating and executing opportunities for the acquisition of distressed assets, including through loan to own investments, accelerated sales and acquisitions out of insolvency processes.
- Restructuring and insolvency litigation: Advising on all litigious aspects of today's complex, multijurisdictional restructurings and insolvencies, including issues and disputes arising out of intercreditor disputes, contested reorganisation plans, administrations, receiverships and CVAs.
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"...this firm has reacted to the shift in market demand to handle an increased volume of restructurings and reorganisations."
Chambers UK 2010
"...Acting predominantly for stakeholders, the team is comprised of 'consistently outstanding legal advisers, who are able to advise on complex financial and operational restructurings'."
The UK Legal 500 2011