With a strategic focus and sophisticated analysis, we advise companies, investment funds, strategic investors, creditors, lenders and other stakeholders in complex transactions involving capital solutions, financial restructuring and special situations. Our practice is directed at transactions designed to address liquidity challenges, deleveraging, liability maturities, value preservation and financial and operational repositioning.
We combine technical expertise, strategic vision and deep market experience to enable transactions in environments characterised by information asymmetry, contractual constraints and potential disputes. We work in an integrated manner with our banking law, capital markets, M&A, insolvency, credit recovery and dispute resolution practices, allowing us to advise on sophisticated transactions from the diagnostic and strategic design phase through to negotiation, documentation and implementation.
• Advisory on the conception and execution of structured financings, bridge financings, rescue financings, hybrid debt and equity instruments and recapitalisations.
• Liability management transactions, exchange offers, consent solicitations and renegotiation of banking and capital markets financial liabilities.
• Opportunistic investments in stressed assets, credits or positions, acquisitions of distressed assets or credits and distressed M&A transactions.
• Structuring of credit solutions in special situations, including DIP financings in reorganisation proceedings and super-priority credit facilities.
• Significant experience in representing parties across different positions in the capital structure, covering consensual, high-pressure negotiation, judicial and contentious scenarios.
• Extensive experience in conducting transactions involving cross-border structures, multiple creditor classes with different levels of seniority and complex financial instruments.
• End-to-end advisory, from the diagnostic and strategic design of alternatives through to negotiation, documentation and effective implementation.
• An approach oriented towards the identification of innovative legal and economic alternatives, focused on preserving value and mitigating risks in capital structures and assets with liquidity constraints.
Acting in complex transactions and operations under pressure, encompassing different capital contexts, with a focus on negotiation and designing tailor-made structured financial solutions.
Consolidated experience advising creditors, investors, and companies on strategic financial decision-making.
Multidisciplinary and integrated approach with the firm’s leading practices, including Banking, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring and Insolvency, and Dispute Resolution.
Recognized practices in the top international legal rankings, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000, in addition to “Deal of the Year” awards for our performance in innovative and highly complex transactions.
