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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News and insights
Publications: 21 December 2022
Harmonising EU Insolvency: perspectives from France, Germany and the Netherlands
The European Commission has proposed a new directive harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law. Proposals on clawback, pre-packs and directors' duties (among others) will be of interest to…
Publications: 08 July 2021
Carve-out deals likely to increase after Covid-19
Carve-out and spin-off deals are likely to accelerate as companies emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. Increasingly, companies are looking at alternative strategies to boost their competitiveness,…
Publications: 27 April 2021
Impact of the recent Gategroup decision on aviation restructurings
First featured as an article in Global Restructuring Review, Jennifer Marshall and Harini Viswanathan consider what the Gategroup convening judgment that found UK restructuring plans to be an…
Publications: 07 April 2021
Distressed or insolvent M&A: navigating the pitfalls and opportunities
Opportunities to acquire distressed or insolvent businesses look set to accelerate later this year. What should buyers be thinking about?
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
