Restructuring and Insolvency
We offer comprehensive restructuring and insolvency solutions for insolvency practitioners, corporates, investors, and lenders, including risk management, investment recovery, and more. Our breadth of skill means we can advise at any level of financial health. We understand what drives a successful outcome from distressed corporate situations and how to provide the best support in an insolvency situation.
Overview
Our experienced team offers a national and cross-border advisory service to lenders, investors, creditors, institutional landlords, corporates, and insolvency officeholders. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, we meet client needs by bringing together specialist lawyers from our M&A, employment, tax, real estate, dispute resolution, banking, and finance teams. Our services include:
- Providing tailored strategic advice
- Offering expertise in contentious and non-contentious insolvency
- Advising on restructuring matters
- Running fully-integrated solution seminars
- Running workshops and training to maximise effectiveness
Corporates
We advise on the full spectrum of issues that arise from corporate distress, including formal or informal restructuring, investment recovery, turnaround, enforcement, formal insolvency, distressed debt disposal and acquisition, risk management, and insolvency litigation.
We also support international corporates with their interests in restructurings and insolvencies in England and Wales, whether distressed debt, supply issues, group restructurings, insolvent subsidiaries, or acquisitions by accelerated mergers and acquisitions.
Insolvency
Our team includes specialist insolvency litigators involved in high-value antecedent and fraud claims, often with an international dimension. We advise on asset tracing, recovery, investigation, and enforcement of cross-border judgments. We also support our insolvency officeholder clients in corporate trading and disposal issues following formal appointment, giving strategic advice to maximise stakeholder returns.
Lenders
We advise secured lenders on non-performing loans, security reviews, security enhancement and prioritisation, and help shape enforcement strategy.
Featured experience
- Advising the board of directors of Thames Water on its obligations in the restructuring process of the Thames Water business.
- Acting for the joint administrators on the disposal of a digital pharmacy startup which supplies medication via a technology platform to care homes across the country
- Advising a leading UK real estate investment trust on the effect on a rent arrears claim of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganisation proceedings in respect of Cine - UK Limited
- Advising joint administrators of an FMCG on the sale of its subsidiary company to a director and on the further sale of the business assets
- Supporting a global insurance broker's finance team with implementation of a complex group simplification and entity elimination project involving 45 group entities targeted for dissolution, solvent liquidation or capital restructuring
- Advising professional services firm (US) on Letters of Request following US Bankruptcy Code Rule 2004 examination and document production against UK registered financial institutions
- Advising the administrators of a British brewery company on the placing into administration of the Company, the recovery of assets transferred pre-administration and the sale of its business and assets
- Acting for independent financial services and digital marketing group TFAS Enterprises on the urgent purchase of the compliance arm of Tenet Group following various entities in the group entering administration ensuring a seamless continuation of services to customers
- Advising professional services firm (US) on Letters of Request following US Bankruptcy Code Rule 2004 examination and document production against UK- registered financial institutions
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¿Por qué elegir DAC Beachcroft?
Somos un bufete comercial de amplia base que presta servicios a una gran variedad de sectores, con una sólida herencia en seguros,
salud e inmobiliario. Combinamos excelentes conocimientos jurídicos y experiencia de vanguardia para diseñar soluciones en
que se adapten a las necesidades de nuestros clientes, a menudo con un uso inteligente de la tecnología.