Insolvency and Restructuring

LawBridge provides pragmatic, business-focused advice and guidance to creditors and debtors in Russia, Germany, Cyprus and in other jurisdictions and represents clients in all aspects of corporate and financial restructurings, workouts and insolvency matters, including both transactional and litigation matters. Our strong track record incudes advising of a broad spectrum of clients on national and international restructuring and insolvency. We have the technical skills and expertise to help achieve the best possible outcome for all our clients: both for creditors and for debtors being in difficult financial situation.

We are usually appointed as liquidators, organisers of creditors’ meetings or administrators by request of creditors. In addition, we have great experience in advising the managements of distressed companies how to navigate out of the crisis at an early stage.

Our expertise in these areas covers, in particular, the following:

• advice, including tax advice, related to the restructuring and refinancing of companies in financial distress;

• representing, advising and assisting creditors at all stages of insolvency proceedings;

• advising and assisting debtors throughout the insolvency proceedings;

• optimisation of debtor’s position;

• negotiation of composition agreements;

• out-of-court creditor compositions; and

• enforcement of surety rights, such as pledges and mortgages.