Restructuring and Insolvency
Ally Law’s multinational business restructuring and insolvency team helps debtors, creditors, investors and other interested parties respond to the challenges — and opportunities — that arise when companies face financial distress.
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Global Overview
When businesses face financial challenges, the ripple effects can spread far and wide. This is particularly true when companies have cross-border relationships with lenders, investors, vendors, suppliers, and domestic and foreign government entities.
Ally Law’s multinational business restructuring and insolvency team can help. We advise clients from across the spectrum, helping them navigate the complex laws, regulations and legal processes necessary to resolve even the most complex, sophisticated matters. We have significant experience in insolvency-related litigation and court-supervised reorganizations in numerous jurisdictions and under major national and international legal frameworks. Drawing on our highly developed negotiating skills, we also represent clients in a broad range of out-of-court and extra-judicial proceedings.
Services
We advise clients on all aspects of debt restructurings, insolvency proceedings, corporate reorganizations, workouts, wind-ups and related matters, including:
- Advice to creditors, management and shareholders
- Assignments for the benefit of creditors
- Clawbacks
- Collateral agreements
- Debt-to-equity swaps
- Director, lenders, shareholders and successor liability claims
- Foreclosures and evictions
- Fraudulent and preferential transfers
- Guarantees and security interests
- Insolvency administration
- Insolvency-related litigation and appeals
- Inter-creditor agreements
- Loan-servicing issues
- Liquidations
- Mergers and acquisitions involving underperforming companies, assets and loan portfolios
- Receiverships
- Section 363, Uniform Commercial Code Article 9, and similar asset sales
- Takeover bids
The Ally Law Advantage
Ally Law’s restructuring and insolvency team includes member firms and individual lawyers throughout North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, a number of whom have been ranked by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and other ratings agencies as among the top providers in their jurisdictions. Over the last decade, our member firms and lawyers have handled some of the largest and most complex restructuring cases in their respective countries.
As a global network focused on business matters, we also draw on the legal acumen and experience of colleagues in other key practices, including corporate finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, employment, and tax law, among other groups. This enables us to provide full-spectrum counsel that meets the unique needs of our clients.
Our Clients
We regularly advise debtors, creditors, committees of secured and unsecured creditors, lenders, bondholders, labor unions, landlords and tenants, strategic asset purchasers, and custodians, trustees and other fiduciaries.
Our clients come from all areas of the global economy, including agriculture, financial services, manufacturing, natural resources, oil and gas, retail, real estate and telecommunications, among others.
Resources
Access essential tools and insights developed by our members to assist in empowering clients’ businesses around the globe.
Buying Distress Assets in Indonesia
Marshall Situmorang from Nusantara Legal Partnership discusses how to mitigate legal challenges such as due diligence and clawback actions.
Director Duties in the Face of Insolvency
Edwin Coe’s Ali Zaidi discusses the case of Sequana and the creditor interest test.
Global R&I Landscape
Ally’s Restructuring & Insolvency special interest group talks about global insolvency trends.
The Body Shop: a Case Study
Edwin Coe discusses the failure of The Body Shop and effects on its various stakeholders, including landlords, employees and suppliers.
Precedent in Fintech Space
Richards Cardinal contributed an article to INSOL International analyzing an Argentinian fintech company’s restructuring ineligibility ruling and subsequent overturn.
News
Learn more about industry trends, member firm accomplishments, network news and the changing legal or regulatory environment for our clients.
Rankings
Chambers Latin America
Chambers Latin America ranks the top lawyers and law firms in 19 jurisdictions, spanning Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as all Spanish-speaking countries in South America. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
Chambers UK
The Chambers UK Guide ranks top lawyers and law firms across the UK legal market. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
Chambers Europe
The Chambers Europe Guide ranks top lawyers and law firms across the European legal market. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
Chambers USA
The Chambers USA Guide ranks top lawyers and law firms across the US legal market. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
Legal 500 EMEA
The Legal 500 EMEA edition analyzes capabilities of law firms in 80 jurisdictions across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
IFLR 1000
IFLR1000 is a leading international legal market research product specialised in ranking financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. Click on the firm name to see how they ranked in the most recent guide.
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