Restructuring | Insolvency

We guide clients through financial distress with focused, solution-driven advice. Our team excels in complex restructurings – in and out of court, across borders and sectors – and delivers clear and cost-effective solutions for serious challenges.

Together with our Finance, Financial Services and Corporate | M&A teams, we provide a holistic and innovative approach to out-of-court debt restructurings and judicial insolvency proceedings.

Clients

Our clients include various debtors such as borrowers and issuers of debt instruments, bank lenders, other creditors and foreign insolvency administrators. Members of the board and of the executive management rely on our deep expertise in corporate restructuring and insolvency. We also advise investors in financial distress including entrepreneurs, private equity firms and venture capitalists.

Pre-insolvency Advice and Reorganizations

Our clients retain us in pre-insolvency situations and liquidity crises. We advise on restructurings to minimize the risks of potential civil and criminal liability. We also help clients mitigate enforcement action risks as well as challenges to transactions and security interests in the event of insolvency.

Distressed M&A

Our team provides strategic and practical guidance on transactions involving companies that face financial difficulties. We advise sellers and buyers of distressed assets and debt in executing transactions (including pre-packs) while mitigating legal risks. We deliver tailored restructuring solutions for each client.

Insolvency Proceedings

We represent clients in bankruptcy and composition proceedings (including moratorium) and debt restructuring proceedings. Our services include negotiations under facility agreements, such as bridge loans, standstill agreements, enforcement of pledges and other securities. We also advise on resolutions of banks and other financial institutions, cross-border recognition of insolvency decrees and restructuring plans as well as insolvency-related litigation.