Restructuring
Our unrivalled restructuring and insolvency team, with more than 150 lawyers specialising in restructuring across over 40 offices globally, is truly world class.
With such an extensive and dedicated team, we advise on the largest and most complex restructurings, and pride ourselves on providing pioneering solutions as well as delivering real commercial results. We specialise in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, utilising the full range of international options including U.S. Chapter 11 reorganisations, UK schemes of arrangement, pre-packaged sales and debt for equity swaps.
Our expertise covers advice on contingency planning, debt restructuring and reschedulings, distressed acquisitions/sales, credit bidding, formal insolvency proceedings, out-of-court refinancings and distressed debt trading. We advise lenders and investors at all levels of the capital structure as well as corporates/directors, central banks, insolvency officeholders/trustees and government institutions.
We work closely with specialists in related practice areas including finance, corporate, real estate, employment, pensions, tax, environment, regulatory, capital markets and litigation to provide a seamless and integrated service.
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Publications: 10 JANUARY 2020
The Dutch scheme (also known as WHOA), which is set to come into effect next year, will offer an alternative restructuring tool to the English scheme of arrangement and U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings. Amsterdam-based restructuring partner Sigrid Jansen and Brechje van der Velden, senior partner in Allen & Overy's Amsterdam office, join London-based restructuring partner Jennifer Marshall to discuss the main features of the Dutch scheme and how it compares to the English scheme of arrangement.
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Publications: 17 DECEMBER 2019
Legal advice privilege upheld for dissolved companies
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that documents protected by legal advice privilege remain so protected even upon the dissolution of the company to whom the privilege belongs. Once attached, legal advice privilege exists unless overridden by statute or waived. In addition, the court found that legal professionals have a duty to assert privilege over their former client’s documents and are entitled to resist disclosure of such documents, even if not instructed to do so: Lee Victor Addlesee v Dentons Europe LLP [2019] EWHC Civ 1600
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Publications: 12 DECEMBER 2019
What is the direction of travel of European pre-insolvency reforms?
Associates Musonda Mutati and Harini Viswanathan have authored an article for Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, highlighting the differences between the European and proposed UK reforms.
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Recognition
[They have] the bandwidth to deal with the big restructuring situations that crop up and need resources thrown at them.
Chambers Global 2018 - Restructuring & Insolvency
One of the most powerful global networks, very well connected throughout the different jurisdictions.
Chambers Global 2018 - Restructuring & Insolvency
They're pretty well established across geographies and are building a global team and network. With their international network it's easy to have conversations about projects across the globe.
Chambers UK 2018 - Restructuring & Insolvency
