Ashurst's European restructuring and special situations group
advises on all issues arising from corporate distress, distressed
investing and formal insolvencies in Europe.
These include:
Restructuring
- Directors' duties
- Debtor-led restructuring
- Creditor-led restructuring
- Refinancing
- Debt/equity swaps
- Schemes and CVAs
Distressed investing
- Due diligence
- Debt control transactions
- Single name and portfolio trading
- Claims trading
- Tax and acquisition structuring
- Acquisition funding
- Exits (securitisation and repackaging, etc.)
Formal insolvencies
- Choice of forum
- Choice of process
- Pre-packs
- Advising insolvency administrators
- Advising lenders
- Advising creditors
- Litigation
The group comprises a specialist team of 20 partners and a
further 30 lawyers based in our offices in London, Paris,
Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Madrid and Brussels. Members of the group
are recognised as leaders in their fields and have been involved in
some of the largest, most complex and innovative restructurings and
insolvencies of recent times. Where necessary they are able to draw
upon the full range of expertise available to Ashurst as a full
service international law firm.
Our clients include international investment banks, distressed
investors, hedge funds, lending banks, insolvency administrators,
private equity houses, many national and international companies
and individual creditors and directors.
The group has been involved in award-winning deals. We acted on the
2006 IFLR Awards' "Restructuring Deal of the Year" for Parmalat, as
well as the 2005 IFLR Awards'
"Restructuring Deal of the Year" involving British Energy.