Our Insolvency and Restructuring Group – Representing Clients In Various Businesses
In our Insolvency and Restructuring Group, we have received national and international recognition in expertise in workout, restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy. The members of this great team are field leaders with several years of restructuring skill.
Our full-service, national law firm leads the way with key Insolvency and Restructuring experts in M&A, IP and IT, securities, litigation, labour and employment, financial services, competition, tax, real estate and pensions. Our team’s skill in distressed and restructuring cases meets and exceeds our clients’ expectations.
Our clients come from numerous trades comprising businesses in telecommunications, steel, retail, real estate, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, media, manufacturing, investment funds, insurance, forestry, financial services, energy, automotive, agriculture and airlines.
To successfully protect and represent the interests of our clients in all parts of the nation, our experts can combine the many experts across the country with local knowledge.
The members of our Insolvency and Restructuring Group act for our clients appellate and superior courts in bankruptcy proceedings, restructuring and insolvency. As it is not always possible to arrive at consensual resolutions to complicated issues, our teams of Insolvency and Restructuring lawyers are well equipped to represent the interests and rights before the courts. Our members have decades of knowledge in problems such as sales process hearings; contested bankruptcy, realization, receivership and liquidation procedures; sales approval motions, priority concerns, classification hearings; and plan sanction and approval motions. We likewise have litigation knowledge in fraudulent conveyance, preference, undervalue, oppression, alter ego, subordination, reviewable transaction, and more.
The objective of our company is to maximizing and preserving value for major international financial institutions, institutional lenders, senior lenders, asset-based lenders, private equity, mezzanine lenders, distressed investors, turnaround companies, bondholders, indenture trustees, court officers, and protection funds. We serve clients involved in financial restructuring, like for instance boards of directors and special committees and others, in matters ranging from out-of-court restructurings, loan amendments, intercreditor arrangements, business and asset sales and acquisitions, plans of arrangement, pre-packaged plans, operational restructurings, and balance sheet restructurings through formal proceedings.
Our advice and services comprise the following:
Distressed Financing
There are several probable variations, in distressed financing situations. It is vital for all parties to have a clear knowledge of the rights, interests, likely tactics and strategy to achieve a successful result. Our Insolvency and Restructuring Group works closely with members of our Financial Services Group, acting for lenders in and out of court, financial restructurings, debtor-in-possession, financing arrangements, forbearance arrangements and accommodations, and exit financing.
Distressed M&A
Our Insolvency and Restructuring Group works closely with our Mergers and Acquisitions Group as well as other specialty groups. We offer services in the sale or acquisition of businesses or assets in distressed situations. Our clients include sellers, buyers, boards of directors, institutional investors, special committees, lenders providing acquisition financing, buyout funds, and interested stakeholders.
We have advised in respect of strategic debt acquisitions, plan-sponsor arrangements, fulcrum security issues and rights and value maximizing techniques comprising the assessment of other counterparty risks and arrangements and the assignment or rejection of executory and other contracts. In addition, we have acted for sales processes, arrangements, cross-border sales processes involving the combined use of the courts authorized sales procedures with Bankruptcy Codes sales, stalking-horse bidding processes (after or without a pre-filing sales process) comprising right auction sales and bidding protections or more conventional kind sales processes.
We likewise assist in offering personalized services concerning both union and non-union cases in conjunction with our Labour and Employment Group.
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