Restructuring & Insolvency Law

Our Restructuring experts advise you in all legal fields relating to crisis, reorganization, and insolvency.

In addition to our work’s legal quality, you can expect profound economic understanding of your individual situation and solution-oriented options for action. We accompany you reliably and confidentially in your decision-making processes by offering specific proposals and recommendations.

Our advisory areas comprise the following: 

  • Avoiding insolvency, overcoming crises, and reorganization
  • Strategic options to early identify and avoid insolvency risks of business partners, your own company and group
  • Strategies to avoid liability
  • Debt restructuring
  • Bond restructuring
  • Reorganization transactions
  • Corporate acquisitions
  • Debt-equity swap
  • Trust models
  • Examination of insolvency and over-indebtedness as well as avoidance strategies
  • Restructuring plan
  • Protective shield proceedings, self-administration, and insolvency plan 
  • Insolvency labor law
  • Insolvency contestation
  • D&O insurance
  • Litigation

Restructuring options in corporate crises

Solution-oriented advice is required to overcome corporate crises as the future of the company, jobs, and livelihoods are at stake. We jointly develop and discuss the individual reorganization options including all their advantages and disadvantages to find the solution that is a best fit for you and your company.

When selecting legal action, we advise you on filing and guide you through opening and main proceedings, in particular in relation to protective shields, self-administration, and reorganization and insolvency plans.

You will benefit from our many years of experience including an extensive network of renowned auditors, management consultants, banks, and crisis investors.

Options for action by creditors

Suppliers and institutional creditors may be severely affected by their business partners’ insolvency., We develop strategies jointly with you to reduce impending losses and to maintain sustainable business relationships.

Distressed investing/Non-performing loans (NPLs)

Corporate crises usually offer opportunities to gain new stakeholders, either because creditors shy away from the increased risk caused by their debtor’s crisis and are willing to transfer their (possibly distressed) claims to new creditors, or because new investors are willing to invest fresh capital in the crisis company. We advise financial investors on acquiring (defaulted) claims from and on investing equity capital in crisis companies, to support the company in adapting or realigning its group of stakeholders.

Litigation

We also advise and represent clients in litigation, in particular in: 

  • defending criminal and liability claims
  • defending insolvency contestation 
  • enforcing claims by insolvency administrators and creditors

Our clients

Our clients include companies and corporate groups as well as their shareholders, general managers, board members, supervisory board members, and business partners such as credit institutions, suppliers, and creditors, but also investors and insolvency administrators.
 

Videos

Interview mit Prof. Dr. Georg Streit

17. Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Restrukturierung 2021 vom 22. bis 25. Juni – Digital Edition 
„Es wird im Herbst ein anziehendes Restrukturierungs- und Insolvenzgeschehen auf uns zukommen, aber es wird kein Tsunami werden“, verspricht Prof. Dr. Georg Streit.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Georg Streit

16th Handelsblatt Annual Conference Restructuring 2020, July 6-8 - Digital Edition

Prof. Dr. Georg Streit gave a lecture on "Post-Covid-Restructuring: Liability risks for management". In an interview with the Handelsblatt, he explained why it will take time to come to terms with the crisis.

Rolle des Aufsichtsrates in insolventen Unternehmen

Directors Academy GmbH - Interview with Prof. Georg Streit, September 4, 2020

Distinctions
Restructuring & Insolvency Law

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JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2022/2023

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