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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.

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 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.

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.

Berger Singerman, Florida’s Business Law Firm, has a nationally recognized Business Reorganization practice distinguished by its experience, depth, and consistent results. One of the largest restructuring teams in the Southeast, the firm has been involved in many of the region’s largest bankruptcy cases, receiverships, and out-of-court restructurings, and regularly handles matters nationwide. The team represents debtors, creditors, committees, receivers, trustees, and distressed investors in complex reorganizations, bankruptcy litigation, asset recoveries, and distressed acquisitions across industries including real estate, healthcare, hospitality, aviation, retail, and financial services. Known for its practical approach, the team helps clients achieve efficient, business-focused outcomes, often outside of formal bankruptcy proceedings.

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.

https://www.buchalter.com/ 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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 & Schulte

Leading organizations turn to global law firm McDermott Will & Schulte for a better way to address legal challenges, connect with those at the forefront, and drive stronger outcomes. Working across more than 20 offices globally, our 1,750+ lawyers act on data-driven insights, deep relationships, and unmatched industry experience to deliver on our commitment of Always Better.

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 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 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.

Norton Rose Fulbright offers a global restructuring and insolvency service, helping businesses in all key industry sectors. We are at the forefront of many of the most significant cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases involving complex multi-jurisdictional issues and regional insolvency laws. We have more than 3,700 lawyers and other legal staff working across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.  We use the wide range of legal disciplines of lawyers from our worldwide offices in the fields of banking and finance; corporate, M&A and securities; employment and labor; to meet the challenges throughout all stages of a restructuring matter. Our ability to staff multi-jurisdictional deals using solely Norton Rose Fulbright personnel means we stand out by offering our clients seamless service in all relevant jurisdictions.  Our global team acts for a full range of clients including lenders, private equity and distressed debt funds, hedge funds, bondholders, public and private corporations, debtors, liquidators, examiners, office holders, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, management and other relevant stakeholders

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.

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.

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.

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.