Sponsors
Thanks to the support of its valued sponsors, IWIRC has been able to expand its membership benefits, increase its educational programs and networking events, as well as grow the number of local networks worldwide. IWIRC sponsors receive a valuable range of benefits including consistent exposure of their brands to over 2,400 members from all facets of the restructuring and insolvency industry.
For more information about sponsorships.
Titanium Sponsors
AlixPartners
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. The global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across more than 50 locations worldwide, covering the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. With its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized for its client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets. See our Restructuring Touchpoint page.
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Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (PSZJ) is the nation’s leading corporate restructuring boutique, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Wilmington (DE), New York, and Houston. PSZJ attorneys are experienced in representing all major constituencies in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, including debtors, committees, trustees, bondholders, asset-purchasers and third-party plan proponents. PSZJ also handles sophisticated business litigation and transactional matters as part of its renowned practice and, last year, the firm was named U.S. News & World Report’s "Law Firm of the Year" in Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with a particular focus on the technology and life sciences, energy, financial, and real estate and construction sectors. Recognized as one of the most innovative law firms by Financial Times and as a top firm for client service by BTI Consulting, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their authoritative commercial awareness.
Diamond Sponsors
A&O Shearman
A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling.
With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets.
This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength.
Alvarez & Marsal
https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a leading global professional services firm that delivers restructuring and turnaround, disputes and investigations, performance improvement and other advisory services to companies, investors, government entities and their counsel. A&M’s senior professionals bring operating, management, litigation and investigative expertise combined with top-tier consulting and specialized industry experience to meet the changing needs of clients.
Select Services
A&M’s Restructuring and Turnaround professionals bring a distinct hands-on approach to complex operational and financial challenges requiring speed to execution, including serving in interim management and CRO roles, advising underperforming companies, advising creditor groups, acting in fiduciary roles, and providing claims management services.
A &M’s Disputes and Investigations professionals bring an independent, objective approach to solving problems, drawing on their deep skills and experience in litigation consulting, investigating potential causes of action, assessing settlement strategies, securing recoveries, business investigations, forensic technology and expert testimony to provide clients with the solutions they seek to achieve their goals.
Contact A&M
Connect with A&M by visiting www.alvarezandmarsal.com or by contacting:
· Laureen Ryan (Disputes and Investigations, New York)
· Julie Hertzberg (Restructuring and Turnaround, Detroit)
· Elizabeth Dean (Disputes and Investigations, San Francisco)
· Jodi Ehrenhofer (Restructuring and Turnaround, Chicago)
· Karen Engstrom (Disputes and Investigations, Phoenix)
· Andrea Gonzalez (Restructuring and Turnaround, Chicago)
· Joanne Hewitt-Schembri (Restructuring and Turnaround, London)
· Erin McKeighan (Restructuring and Turnaround, Chicago)
· Patricia Murphy (Restructuring and Turnaround, New York)
· Lisa Price (Restructuring and Turnaround, Atlanta)
· Suzanne Stuckwisch (Disputes and Investigations, San Francisco)
· Cari Turner (Restructuring and Turnaround, Dallas)
Carey Olsen
Carey Olsen is a leading offshore law firm advising on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law across a global network of nine international offices. We are a full service law firm working across banking and finance, corporate and M&A, investment funds and private equity, trusts and private wealth, dispute resolution, insolvency and property law.
Our dedicated restructuring and insolvency lawyers across our international network of offices apply their knowledge of insolvency law, regulatory guidance and litigation practice to the full spectrum of cross-border restructuring, recovery and insolvency matters involving Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law.
We are frequently instructed on the planning and implementation of formal insolvency processes involving our jurisdictions. Our lawyers are skilled and experienced in contentious and non-contentious processes and have been involved in a significant number of the major formal insolvency proceedings in recent years. Leading practitioners across the jurisdictions in which we operate, have played key roles in the developing and extending many of the core areas of insolvency law and practice.
Our restructuring lawyers have a practical and in-depth understanding of the technical issues that can arise in restructuring situations, whether around merger, acquisition, reorganisation, workout or recapitalisation activities.
We recognise that insolvency processes are being employed in an ever more creative manner, whether to assist in the enforcement of judgments and awards, or to preserve assets for the victims of fraud. We continue to advise insolvency appointees, government agencies, judgment creditors and financial institutions in the exercise of their powers in foreign jurisdictions and to enforce their rights throughout the offshore world.
Dentons
Across over 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com
Development Specialists, Inc
Development Specialists, Inc. (DSI) is one of the leading providers of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, financial restructuring, litigation support, fiduciary services and forensic accounting. Our clients include business owners, private-equity investors, corporate boards, financial institutions, secured lenders, bondholders and unsecured creditors. For almost 45 years, DSI has been guided by a single objective: maximizing value for all stakeholders. With our highly skilled and diverse team of professionals, offices in the U.S. and international affiliates, and an unparalleled range of experience, DSI has built a solid reputation as an industry leader.
Platinum Sponsors
Appleby
https://www.applebyglobal.com/
APPLEBY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING FULL-SERVICE INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRMS. OUR GLOBAL TEAMS OF LEGAL SPECIALISTS ADVISE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANIES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.
We provide comprehensive, expert advice and services across Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Private Client & Trusts, Property and Regulatory practice areas. We work with our clients to achieve practical solutions whether from a single location or across multiple jurisdictions.
We have of?ces in ten well-regulated global locations and practise the laws of eight jurisdictions. Our of?ce locations include the key international jurisdictions of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Mauritius, and the Seychelles, as well as the international ?nancial centres of Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Insolvency & Restructuring
Appleby’s market leading Insolvency & Restructuring team offers a wide range of sector specific expertise across each of the offshore jurisdictions in which we operate. This enables us to provide clear, sound and timely advice on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious insolvencies and restructurings.
Our team of experts have led the largest, most complex and innovative corporate restructurings in recent years, both on the creditor and debtor side. These teams act for directors, institutional lenders, creditors (secured or unsecured), borrowers or insolvency practitioners in many of the largest insolvencies that have offshore aspects or cross-border elements.
Our expertise includes advising:
• Directors and fiduciaries, including trustees, on their duties and personal exposure
• Secured creditors on possible enhancements to their security net and options in an
enforcement scenario
• On the appointment, recognition and removal of liquidators, receivers and provisional
liquidators and their powers and duties whilst in office
• On instigating or challenging just and equitable winding up and other jurisdiction-specific insolvency procedures
• In relation to recognition proceedings for insolvency practitioners, both into and out of our offshore jurisdictions
• On refinancing, rescue and restructuring
• On schemes of arrangement, amalgamation and reconstruction
• In related fraud, asset tracing, recovery and constructive trust proceedings
• On related regulatory advice and obtaining requisite regulatory consents and no
objection letters.
We have experience across a wide range of industries including oil and gas, telecommunications, hospitability and leisure, healthcare, financial services, real estate and manufacturing.
FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting, Inc. is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes. With more than 2,200 professionals located in 26 countries and 70 offices, our Corporate Finance & Restructuring professionals work closely with clients, partnering with them throughout the value creation lifecycle to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex restructuring, business transformation and transaction challenges and opportunities. Our experts with impact take an industry-first approach, delivering critical solutions in industries, including real estate; retail; automotive; energy, power and products; mining and metals; financial institutions; healthcare; and telecom, media and entertainment.
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Kroll Restructuring Administration
kroll.com/en/services/restructuring-administration
About Kroll Restructuring Administration
Kroll’s Restructuring Administration practice, formerly known as Prime Clerk, provides end-to-end restructuring administration services provided by unrivaled experts and technology. Learn more at kroll.com/restructuring-administration.
About Kroll
As the leading independent provider of financial and risk advisory solutions, Kroll leverages our unique insights, data and technology to help clients stay ahead of complex demands. Kroll’s team of more than 6,500 professionals worldwide continues the firm’s nearly 100-year history of trusted expertise spanning risk, governance, transactions and valuation. Our advanced solutions and intelligence provide clients the foresight they need to create an enduring competitive advantage. At Kroll, our values define who we are and how we partner with clients and communities. Learn more at kroll.com.
Omni Agent Solutions, Inc.
Omni is a forward-thinking information management company focused on providing professional administrative services and technology solutions to simplify complex corporate bankruptcy case administration. Designed with the restructuring professional in mind, Omni provides personal expert services and state of the art technology to deliver an unparalleled collaborative administration platform. Curated by its experienced team of professionals – who have 100+ years of aggregate experience in the administrative, legal, advisory and executive management sectors – Omni’s suite of technology solutions provides a complete set of administrative tools that compliment and integrate with the services provided by the other court-appointed restructuring professionals.
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP
Riker Danzig LLP has served the business community for 140 years. With offices in Morristown, Trenton, Roseland, and Midtown Manhattan, Riker Danzig is regional trial counsel, national defense counsel, and local deal counsel to clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to middle-market businesses. Riker Danzig's experience and knowledge in bankruptcy litigation, corporate reorganization, real estate restructurings, and nonbankruptcy insolvency proceedings allow us a strong practice on a national platform. Drawing upon the resources of our bankruptcy expertise, as well as the firm's varied litigation, corporate, healthcare, real estate, environmental and public finance expertise, the firm has earned a nationwide reputation for its representation of secured creditors, debtors, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees, Chapter 11 and 7 trustees, landlords, asset purchasers, equipment lessors, bondholders, private equity groups, receivers and assignees for the benefit of creditors, as well as third party plan proponents (i.e., takeovers) in all aspects of litigation under the Bankruptcy Code.
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Sequor Law
Sequor Law is a Miami-based international law firm representing financial institutions, sovereign governments and state-owned enterprises, public and non-public companies, insolvency practitioners, and individual clients in the areas of asset recovery, financial fraud, insolvency, and financial litigation services.
SM Financial Services Corporation
www.smfinancialservicescorp.com
SM Financial Services Corporation offers innovative alternatives to liquidations and wind-downs and provides a professional and efficient choice for trustees, receivers, attorneys, creditor’s committees, secured lenders, turnaround/restructuring professionals and business advisors.
Stretto
Stretto delivers a full spectrum of case management and claims administration services, depository and distribution solutions, and technology tools to legal and financial professionals. With a comprehensive suite of tailored offerings, Stretto provides an unparalleled portfolio designed to meet our clients’ unique financial and business objectives.
Troutman Pepper Locke
Troutman Pepper Locke helps clients solve complex legal challenges and achieve their business goals in an ever-changing global economy. With more than 1,600 attorneys in 30+ offices, the firm serves clients in all major industry sectors, with particular depth in energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, and real estate. Our Bankruptcy and Restructuring practices help clients across industries navigate a wide variety of sophisticated financing matters and provide clients in distressed situations with creative solutions that prioritize recovery or return on investment. The firm represents a wide range of clients in insolvency situations and offers tools to their clients to reduce crises or prevent them from arising.
Verita (formerly KCC)
https://veritaglobal.com/kcc-is-now-verita/
Verita (formerly KCC) is a leading claims and noticing agent providing administrative support services and consulting to companies undergoing corporate restructurings. Verita has set the standard for claims administration services, with innovative technologies and the most experienced staff in the market offering in-depth expertise and highly responsive client service. Verita provides claims administration, noticing, public securities services, strategic communications, document production, balloting and tabulation, disbursement services, and a suite of e-services on digital platforms. Additionally, Verita has integrated automated chapter 11 depository services, receivership, chapter 7, and subchapter V solutions and software in their continually expanding suite of services.
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Vinson & Elkins (“V&E”) was founded in 1917 and since our beginning, we have been instrumental in assisting our clients in breaking new ground and developing new frontiers. Our lawyers provide strategic legal advice on our clients’ most challenging and complex transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, project developments, financings, arbitrations, lawsuits, environmental matters, tax cases, intellectual property matters, restructurings/reorganizations and regulatory proceedings. We provide our clients with a diversified practice that serves the needs of a global industry. We offer an integrated team of over 700 skilled lawyers in 13 global locations in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Gold Sponsors
Accordion
Accordion is a private equity-focused financial and technology consulting firm. Working at the intersection of sponsors and management teams, Accordion partners with clients at every stage of the investment lifecycle. The firm’s services span the entire CFO function within the private capital sector, including turnaround and restructuring, operational and technical accounting, strategic financial planning and analysis, CFO-driven transformation, CFO technology, transaction execution, public company readiness, and interim leadership. With a focus on hands-on, results-oriented execution, Accordion is widely recognized as the go-to PE consultancy and the premier digital-enablement partner for portfolio CFOs. In addition, Accordion has been recognized as an employer of choice for pioneering a better way to work in finance. Accordion has a total of 10 offices including its headquarters in New York and locations in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and South Florida.
Adams-Levine Surety Bonds & Insurance Solutions
Adams-Levine is a premier surety bond provider to the bankruptcy and restructuring community. Our primary focus is in bonds for Bankruptcy Trustees (Chapter 7, 11, 12, & 13), Plan Administrators and Receivers, as well as in Bank Depository Bonds. Also offered are Court Litigation (Appeal, Supersedeas, TRO), Fiduciary and Miscellaneous bonds. Contact us at AdamsLevine.com.
Agentis
Agentis is a law firm, “representing your legal business needs on your terms.”
Agentis clients leverage the skill, ability, and experience of lawyers who have earned an exceptional reputation for providing representation in significant and complicated business, legal, and factual issues related to restructuring, litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, and probate.
Our approach is simple: Be effective, efficient, and powerful.
Partner with Agentis and you’ll get an award-winning team of attorneys who will help you understand all of your legal options.
Ankura
Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to change, risk, disputes, finance, performance, distress, and transformation.
Arnold & Porter
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BMC Group
BMC Group has been a premier claims and noticing agent for over 25 years. Always leveraging technology, our case management and virtual data room solutions deliver cost efficient quality. Value added services include public securities and solicitation expertise as well as complex disbursements excellence. We are proud to be the only claims agent with our own top-tier virtual data room platform (SmartRoom™), available in multiple languages. With offices around the world, BMC Group provides global 24/7 support resources. We deliver the expertise, technology, tools and services required to ensure timely and accurate data for informed decision making. Please call 1.800.655.1129 or visit bmcgroup.com.
Buchalter, P.C.
Since the Firm’s inception in 1933, Buchalter has established itself as a full-service law firm that provides counsel to clients at all stages, and helps them navigate any legal challenges and decisions they may face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and trust us as advisers and business partners.
300+ Attorneys Serving You In
14 Practice Areas | 25+ Industry Specialties | 9 Office Locations
Our Practices
Commercial Finance | Corporate | Energy & Natural Resources | Environmental Law | Government, Regulatory & Administrative Health Care | Insolvency & Financial Law Group | Intellectual Property | Japan Practice | Labor & Employment Litigation | Privacy & Data Security | Products Liability | Real Estate | Tax, Benefits, & Estate Planning | White Collar & Investigations
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Burford Capital
https://www.burfordcapital.com
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, DC, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong.
Campbells Legal
https://www.campbellslegal.com
Campbells is a leading full service offshore law firm established in 1970. From their offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong they provide comprehensive corporate and litigation advice and services to clients worldwide in relation to Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law. Campbells is regularly trusted to advise some of the most prominent names in finance, investment and insurance and is frequently involved in the largest and most complex transactions, disputes and insolvencies in both jurisdictions. Campbells’ legal team is internationally recognised for its expertise by leading directories and trade publications and is also proud to be actively involved in the development of legislation, sitting on critical government legislative committees. Campbells is a member of the international legal networks Meritas and World Law Group.
Carl Marks Advisors
https://www.carlmarksadvisors.com/
Carl Marks Advisors is focused on providing financial and operational advisory services to middle market businesses and their stakeholders. We are a collaborative partner delivering effective and durable results for our clients—whether they need solutions to complex problems or help navigating transition and growth. Our proactive, persistent approach breaks through roadblocks, identifies a viable path forward, and creates the alignment and momentum needed to achieve successful outcomes.
Chandhiok & Mahajan, Advocates and Solicitors
Chandhiok & Mahajan is a leading full service law firm in India, providing our clients with high-quality and bespoke legal services across practice areas. Given our experience in domestic and foreign markets, we support some of the largest domestic and international corporations, government organizations, restructuring and insolvency specialists, financial institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, and promoter groups.
Our clients describe us as Incisive, Innovative and Responsive. We always strive to go above and beyond the client expectations. Our teams are known for high-quality output, creative mindset and meticulous attention to detail.
The ethos of our firm is providing the most feasible solution to the client, which is mobilised through the efforts of attorneys who work together to bring in their cross-functional perspectives to help the business achieve their client's goals.
C&M has been recognised by Chambers & Partners, Asia Law, Legal500, IFLR 1000, IBLJ, ET Legal, BW Legal, GCR, Benchmark litigation and Legal Era which celebrate excellence in Competition and antitrust, Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate /M&A and disputes. These accolades not only affirm our firm's standing but also underscore of our ongoing efforts to set the standard for excellence in legal practice.
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ConnectOne Bank
ConnectOne Bank offers financial products and custom solutions to help our clients achieve financial prosperity for themselves, their family and their business. With offices across New Jersey, New York and Florida, we offer a full suite of deposit and loan products and services to the general public and, in particular, to small and mid-sized businesses, local professionals and individuals residing, working and conducting business in our trade area.
Dhir & Dhir Associates, Advocates & Solicitors
https://www.dhirassociates.com
Dhir & Dhir Associates is a full-service law firm founded in 1993 to serve as a single-window provider in a dynamic commercial environment. The firm pursues a philosophy of symbiotic relationships with clients and works as an integral part of the client’s team. It partners with lawyers across India to provide legal advisory and expertise across diverse practice areas and industry verticals in the country. It maintains offices in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai with a representative office in Japan.
The firm specialises in various practice areas such as Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate/ Commercial Advisory and M&A, Real Estate & Construction Law, Banking and Finance, Dispute Resolution, Litigation & Arbitration, Capital Markets, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Infrastructure & Energy, Intellectual Property, Aerospace & Defence, Criminal Litigation, IT, E-Commerce and Outsourcing, Environment Laws, Labour & Employment and Consumer Law.
The firm and its partners have been recognized as the leaders in ‘Restructuring & Insolvency’ and ‘Dispute Resolution’ and have also been highly ranked for ‘Banking and Finance’, ‘Projects, Infrastructure & Energy’, ‘TMT’, ‘Project Finance’, ‘Capital Markets’, ‘Corporate/M&A’, ‘Financial Service Regulatory’ and ‘Private Equity’ in leading legal publications including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, India Business Law Journal (IBLJ), IFLR1000, Benchmark Litigation and Asialaw Profiles.
Enor Securities
https://www.enorsecurities.com
We are an investment exchange for digital assets. We combine the traditional financial market with blockchain technology, transforming the capital markets. A 2.5 solution that bridges the gap between today's Web 2.0 (Traditional Market) and the potential of Web 3.0 (Crypto Assets).
Force10 Partners
Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Godfrey & Kahn has provided high-level service and creative legal solutions to its clients for over 60 years. The Business Finance, Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group's experience and skill makes us one of the premier business debtors' reorganization firms in Wisconsin. Our attorneys have years of experience in all aspects of commercial and creditors' rights law, including the refinancing and reorganization of insolvent companies.
Harney Westwood & Riegels
Harneys Westwood & Riegels is a leading offshore law firm recognized globally for its expertise and service excellence. With over 300 lawyers across 11 jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and Anguilla, we operate from multiple offices located in key financial centers such as Hong Kong, London, and Singapore. Our firm is consistently ranked among the top offshore law firms in the world, renowned for our commitment to delivering innovative legal solutions tailored to our clients' needs.
Jones Walker LLP
https://www.joneswalker.com/en/
To maintain balance in a rapidly shifting economic, legislative and regulatory landscape, debtors, creditors, lenders, and other parties affected by insolvencies need sophisticated, seasoned legal counsel. With offices across the southeastern United States and in select cities nationwide, the Jones Walker LLP bankruptcy and creditors’ rights team focuses on the needs of clients while providing effective representation in courts nationwide. Our attorneys regularly represent clients in all transactional and litigation aspects of business bankruptcy and insolvency matters. The Jones Walker bankruptcy and creditors’ rights team has multiple Fellows in the American College of Bankruptcy and attorneys who are board certified by the American Board of Certification in Business Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights.
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Katten is a full-service law firm with nearly 650 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. For more information, visit katten.com
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Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland and Ellis’ market-leading Restructuring Group provides a broad range of business advisory and crisis management services to navigate clients through the challenges of financial distress. With over 200 restructuring lawyers in the Firm’s U.S., London, Munich, Frankfurt and Hong Kong offices, the group is a leader in complex domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. Kirkland is internationally-recognised as the world’s leading restructuring firm and has been ranked #1 by Global Restructuring Review for the past seven years (every year since inception of the rankings). It is also the only firm to be ranked Tier 1 in restructuring in every market in which it operates.
Operating seamlessly as one global practice, Kirkland’s Restructuring Group collaborates with hundreds of other lawyers with restructuring experience throughout the firm to address clients’ complex, multi-jurisdictional needs. Recent clients include Cineworld, McDermott International, Oriflame, Northvolt, Arvos, WeWork, Consolis, Ardagh, Stonegate, Accell, Hurtigruten, Sapura Energy, Maxeon Solar Technologies, ad hoc groups of noteholders of Country Garden and China South City, Bed Bath & Beyond, BlockFi and Alkegen.
Machado Meyer
https://www.machadomeyer.com.br/
Offering legal intelligence goes far beyond a purpose built up over the course of our history: it allows us to develop innovative solutions, in line with market developments and which make business possible for our clients. We stand out for pioneering actions that have marked generations and brought significant changes to the country, with innovation as the main pillar to ensure the continuity of our success story.
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Madison Pacific Trust Limited
Madison Pacific Trust Limited (“Madison Pacific”) is a premier provider of specialized independent financial and corporate trust and agency services, escrow & custody, headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Singapore and London. For over a decade we have provided nimble and flexible servicing across a range of industries, geographies, and transactions for multinational clients including global banks, financial institutions, hedge and private equity funds, international, offshore and local law firms, accountancy and insolvency practices and corporates. A market leader where we are highly regarded as Resourceful, Reliable, & Responsive.
Manolete Partners
https://www.manolete-partners.com/
Manolete Partners Plc is a UK based specialist insolvency litigation financing company. We fund or take assignment of insolvency claims. We have a strong national network of in-house lawyers who review case enquiries. We work with Insolvency Practitioners and their lawyers to progress those cases and maximise returns to creditors. Manolete has invested in over 750 claims nationally and completed over 500 cases delivering great value to insolvent estates.
McDermott Will & Emery
Business is risky. A host of reasons may cause companies to struggle and, in some cases, force a business restructuring or trigger an insolvency proceeding. For those on the unfortunate side of such situations, understanding the options available can be the difference between a second chance or shuttering operations or recouping an investment. For others, opportunities await those poised to acquire the distressed assets. Retaining a law firm with the capabilities to navigate the complexity of the laws governing business restructurings is critical.
McDermott’s business restructuring group is a global team knowledgeable in all aspects of distressed transactions. We have experience—and a veritable track record—advising the full range of interested parties, domestically and internationally, from the debtors requiring relief to the interested stakeholders lining up to recoup their positions.
What distinguishes our team is our ability to provide seamless, global counsel, particularly for complex assignments that cross borders. We understand the application of the European Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL model law, along with the US chapters 11 and 15 bankruptcy laws, and the assertion and enforcement of claims in numerous jurisdictions.
We advise clients on their rights, options and opportunities, including how troubled companies can utilize the legal process for a successful business restructuring and rescue package. We are also skilled in advising creditors to ensure they receive enhanced recoveries on their investments. And lastly, we counsel the savvy observer on how best to position itself for the opportunity to acquire troubled assets.
About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery partners with leaders around the world to fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. Our team works seamlessly across practices and industries to deliver highly effective solutions that propel success. More than 1,400 lawyers strong, we bring our personal passion and legal prowess to bear in every matter for our clients and the people they serve.
Metis Partners
Metis Partners is a diligence-led, award-winning global intellectual property (IP) valuation firm with a 20-year track record of IP discovery and helping clients understand the value of IP assets. We serve a range of clients from public corporations to privately held businesses in many industries. Our clients and their advisors and lenders rely on our independent advice, unparalleled IP expertise, and robust and reliable processes to deliver trustworthy IP valuations and IP insights.
Miller Canfield
https://www.millercanfield.com/
Miller Canfield has one of the leading bankruptcy, insolvency and workouts practices in the country. Backed by more than 250 attorneys and paralegals across practice groups, our dedicated team of professionals’ deep knowledge of bankruptcy and insolvency law, combined with our vast litigation experience, make Miller Canfield uniquely capable of developing the most effective strategies to enforce our clients’ rights in alignment with their business objectives. We are committed to providing our clients with unparalleled client service, finding the most efficient and cost-effective way to meet our clients’ needs while maximizing recovery.
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Mishcon de Reya is well known and regarded for representing large corporate borrowers in complex debt restructurings in Southeast Asia. We work with liquidators investigating, tracing and recovering assets, and pursuing claims that arise out of major corporate collapses. In London, we have one of the largest litigation teams that are familiar with running complex commercial disputes and fraud cases, often with an international dimension. We are not constrained by commercial ties to large institutional clients; Mishcon de Reya is one of the largest independent firms able to act against financial institutions and professionals.
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP
Moritt Hock & Hamroff is a 90-attorney full service commercial law firm, founded in 1980, that provides a wide range of legal services to businesses, corporations and individuals worldwide from its offices in New York City, on Long Island and in Florida.
Perun Consultants
https://www.perunconsultants.com/
Perun Consultants is a boutique firm specialising in providing high quality services in the areas of forensic accounting, corporate advisory, restructuring, turnaround and liquidation appointments. With offices in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzhen and Singapore, our team of highly qualified and multi-lingual CPAs and finance professionals service clients throughout the Greater China, South East Asia, CIS and Middle East markets.
The firm was founded in 2017 and is led by Gwynn Hopkins, an insolvency practitioner and forensic accountant with more than 20 years of onshore and offshore experience working and leading teams in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
Pinheiro Neto
Quantuma
We are an international advisory firm, operating across borders and in key financial centers around the world. We operate as one global team and help our clients unlock, restructure, trace and recover value in complex distressed situations. We know that complex situations involving multiple jurisdictions require a thorough understanding of the legal, regulatory, commercial, and cultural challenges to facilitate the best outcome. As an independent and agile advisory boutique with deep experience in multi-jurisdictional mandates, we help our clients navigate complex cross-border issues.
Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP
SAK Healthcare
SC&H Capital
https://www.schgroup.com/services/investment-banking-advisory/
SC&H Capital is a national investment bank specializing in distressed M&A, capital raises, and financial restructurings for middle market companies. Its 35-year-old special situations team has preserved an estimated 65,000 jobs in more than six hundred and fifty M&A and financing transactions, including more than three hundred §363 sales in seventy-three districts. Other services include business valuations, sell-side M&A and ESOPs for healthy companies. SC&H Capital serves numerous industries including manufacturing, construction, healthcare, agribusiness, consumer, food & beverage, government contracting, and business and professional services and is recognized for delivering tailored solutions to achieve true strategic value.
Simmons & Simmons
https://www.simmons-simmons.com
Simmons & Simmons is a distinguished international law firm founded in 1896 by twin brothers Percy and Edward Simmons. From its inception at the age of 21, the firm has grown significantly, establishing a strong presence in key financial and commercial centers around the globe. Renowned for its expertise in various legal disciplines, Simmons & Simmons serves a diverse client base, including prominent businesses and financial institutions. The firm is particularly noted for its work in the financial services, technology, and life sciences sectors, where it combines deep industry knowledge with legal expertise to provide comprehensive solutions to complex challenges. With a commitment to excellence, innovation, and a collaborative approach, Simmons & Simmons continues to be a leader in the legal field, delivering high-quality services to its clients worldwide.
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Stikeman Elliott is one of Canada’s leading corporate law firms, serving clients from offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver. Stikemans also has offices in New York and London and serves clients all over the world.
Swanson Sweet LLP
Swanson Sweet is a statewide law firm helping businesses and individuals facing financial distress. A successful workout or reorganization requires attorneys with knowledge and experience. We have a depth of those. We believe in working closely with the client’s financial advisors to achieve results. We serve clients in workouts, restructurings, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy reorganizations, and receiverships in Wisconsin and in Courts across the country from our offices in Milwaukee, Madison and Oshkosh.
Tanner De Witt
Tanner De Witt is an established, top-tier independent law firm in Hong Kong. Our lawyers, many of whom have backgrounds in international law firms, consistently receive top ratings from industry publications such as Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. Our Restructuring and Insolvency practice is a leading practice, boasting one of the largest and most accomplished teams in Hong Kong. Our lawyers specialize in a comprehensive range of insolvency administrations, intricate restructurings, and high-stakes bankruptcies involving global assets. We have a strong focus on contentious and court-related matters, often dealing with complex cross-border cases for high-profile clients. Our team is frequently engaged as lead counsel in complex restructuring and contentious insolvency cases, also providing advice on Hong Kong aspects of global matters. We collaborate closely with practitioners from international, offshore, and US firms on these matters.
We offer legal counsel and representation to various stakeholders, including insolvency practitioners, creditors, directors, shareholders, private and listed companies, bondholders, and individuals. Tanner De Witt provides legal solutions to clients across diverse industries in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, and the Asia Pacific Region. We deliver insightful, practical, and commercial legal advice with discretion and sensitivity to our clients’ needs and preferences.
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Thompson Coburn LLP
https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/
Thompson Coburn is a full-service, values-driven law firm with offices strategically located in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Southern Illinois, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham. The firm represents a sophisticated client base — including Fortune 500, middle-market, and emerging companies — across a range of practice areas and industry sectors. For more information, visit www.thompsoncoburn.com.
Thornton Grout Finnigan, LLP
Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP (“TGF”) is a Canadian law firm with an office located in the financial district of Toronto, Ontario, with a focus in two areas: (i) insolvency and restructuring, and (ii) commercial litigation. TGF is a mix of senior restructuring and litigation lawyers with a full range of experience gained by years of practice, both inside and outside major full service law firms, combined with talented and energetic younger lawyers who thrive in the entrepreneurial environment of a specialty firm.
The firm’s reputation and expertise is reflected in the series of high profile retainers it has enjoyed over the years and its wide range of clients, including financial institutions, regulatory agencies, publicly traded and private companies and officers and directors. TGF delivers practical, business- oriented advice in a dynamic and time sensitive environment. Its mandates reflect TGF’s unique position in the delivery of the highest quality restructuring and litigation services to clients in a specialized market.
TGF has ongoing relationships with tax, corporate, real estate, pension/employment and securities lawyers within Canada and in a number of jurisdictions worldwide who are utilized on a regular and reciprocal basis. The quality of these relationships and the flexibility of a highly-focused firm allows TGF to build a team on a case-by-case basis with people who are considered to be the most experienced and appropriate to retain as part of the team, subject always to the client’s prior approval.
Tucker Arensberg
Underwood Murray, PA
https://www.underwoodmurray.com/
Underwood Murray, PA is passionate about providing the highest quality representation for its clients’ complex bankruptcy and insolvency needs. We are committed to delivering practical and creative solutions with a focus on our clients’ business’ goals and realities. In doing so, Underwood Murray helps guide its clients with varying economic interests through federal and state corporate restructurings, whether that involves litigation, asset acquisitions, complex shareholder disputes, and other legal issues arising from corporate distress
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