Restructuring

Our lawyers advise clients on all matters relating to companies in underperforming and distressed situations. We serve a diverse client base encompassing debtors, lenders, government entities, trustees, shareholders, senior executives and distressed debt and asset buyers and investors.

We manage assignments from the mid-market to the largest national and international restructurings and insolvencies. Our experience also extends to any contentious issues arising from restructurings and insolvencies. We have significant experience advising clients on investigation, enforcement, litigation and asset recovery both on a national and multijurisdictional basis.

As one of the largest teams in Norway, we offer clients some of the most experienced and highly regarded, dedicated restructuring specialists. The group’s lawyers have been appointed as administrators for several significant corporate insolvencies and restructurings of the last few years, and receive a large number of appointments from the Bankruptcy Court on a regular basis. We work with our teams across the world on a regular basis through both formal and informal channels. Our unrivalled breadth of restructuring expertise coupled with the depth of being the world’s largest legal practice, provides clients with the right specialists in the right jurisdictions for any matter.

We are passionate about what we do and our clients see this in the quality of work our lawyers provide.

We provide the following services:

• Debt and asset tracing and recovery
• Disposals, including pre-packaged solutions, distressed M&A and real estate workout
• Distressed debt trading
• Financial restructuring
• Formal insolvency/bankruptcy procedures and creditor committee representation
• Insolvency/bankruptcy-related investigation, litigation and enforcement
• International restructuring strategy and procedures
• Non-performing loan/asset portfolio-related advice
• Operational restructuring