Restructuring and Insolvency

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Restructuring and Insolvency

Our restructuring and insolvency lawyers can help you minimize risk and get the best outcome for your business, whether you’re a creditor or debtor.

We have a long-standing track record of delivering high profile restructurings and insolvencies involving global brands for a wide range of stakeholders.

These include distressed companies, insolvency practitioners, creditors, private equity houses, banks and other financial institutions. Whether you’re a creditor or a debtor, our experienced lawyers can represent you in an extensive range of bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.

We can help you renegotiate or refinance banking facilities, restructure equity stakes, and guide you through the use of insolvency or enforcement processes where necessary. And when you need them, we can bring in colleagues from our banking, private equity, pensions, employment, real estate and tax teams, who will bring to bear their experience working on restructuring corporates which are stressed or distressed. Clients tell us that this integrated, collaborative approach is critical for successful outcomes.

We know that understanding the complexities of financial distress and potential solutions is only one part of the equation; each industry has unique commercial features that affect out-of-court workouts. The depth of our industry-specific knowledge - and our contacts who provide dedicated financial and commercial advice - means we’re always geared towards helping you minimize risk, avoid complications and delays, and maximize success for all stakeholders.

Our global team can help you with every aspect of restructuring and insolvency law. Our recent experiences includes:

  • representing a global metal producer in a bankruptcy case of an electrometallurgical plant
  • advising an international security systems company on the acquisition of distressed assets out of insolvency proceedings in a regulated industry
  • advising an equity owner and subsequent debtor-in-possession lender in the successful reorganization of a privately owned oil and gas company
  • advising the Hong Kong Liquidators of Lehman Brothers in connection with unwinding derivatives, repos, securitisations, bonds, and other complex financial instruments, across multiple jurisdictions
  • advising a multi-lateral institution on the restructuring of c. EUR 40million of debts of an Armenian real estate company
  • advising a UK retail group, with complex package of debt and hedging facilities (circa. £600 million), in relation to the restructuring of its debt in the face of challenges affecting the retail sector
  • advising a Swiss-based commodities trading house on the debt acquisition, restructuring and work-out of an insolvent manufacturing group based in Montenegro
  • advising a German automotive and aerospace components manufacturer in the debtor-in-possession proceeding and its multijurisdictional effects
  • advising a German automotive Tier-2 manufacturer in its debtor-in-possession insolvency proceedings on group-level and the restructuring and sale of certain group companies
  • advising a large aerospace company in the insolvencies of several airlines
  • advising a multinational on the financial and operational restructuring of its business outside insolvency including the sale and market withdrawal in several European countries

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Key contacts

Stanislav Dvořák

Stanislav Dvořák

Partner

Prague, Czech Republic

Tomáš Jelínek

Tomáš Jelínek

Principal Associate

Prague, Czech Republic

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