Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP are now A&O Shearman.

 

A&O Shearman's global restructuring, insolvency and special situations group has handled some of the most complex domestic and cross-border matters of recent years.

We act for stakeholders across the capital structure wherever they encounter distress. Our clients include corporates, boards of directors and management, sponsors, banks, lenders, noteholders, and ad hoc groups.

We also act for contractual counterparties, other creditors, agents, trustees, insolvency officeholders, hedge funds, private equity funds, direct lenders, and CLOs, as well as sovereigns and sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors.

Our team acts on a range of matters including liability management exercises, out-of-court and in-court restructurings, new money capital raises, exchange offers and debt exchanges, acquisitions of distressed companies and assets, equity-linked transactions, insolvencies, rescue financings, and litigation risk assessments and mitigation.

Unrivalled expertise in financial restructuring

We have deep experience of restructuring the full spectrum of financial instruments, from leveraged finance solutions to high yield debt, real estate finance, project finance, structured finance, derivatives, and securitizations.

We deliver practical, innovative, and bespoke solutions to our clients’ challenges using the latest restructuring tools and practice, including novel financing and transactional techniques.

We support clients across industries such as energy and natural resources, consumer, retail, financial services, industrials, aviation, and shipping, and our team draws on the firm’s unmatched strength in litigation, financial regulation, tax, corporate and M&A, employment, and pensions to deliver end-to-end solutions anywhere in the world.

Our ambition is to deliver positive outcomes that preserve and enhance value for our clients, whether they are in distress or seeking to capitalize on special situations and opportunities.

The quality of their output and their responsiveness is second to none. They are also able to focus on the key points of the situation at hand and suggest potential solutions.”
Chambers: Restructuring 2024

The work produced is exemplary and consistently distils complex arrangements into a digestible format.”
Chambers Restructuring UK 2023

Contacts
UK
Katrina Buckley
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+44 20 3088 2704

USA
Fred Sosnick
[email protected]
+1 212 8488571

APAC
Viola Jing
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+852 2974 6951

Rishi Hindocha
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+65 6671 6274

MEA
Adam Banks
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+971 4 426 7253

Haris Meyer Hanif    
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+971 4 426 7158

Europe
Sigrid Jansen
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+31 20 674 1168

Hector Arroyo
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+33140065369

Josef Parzinger
[email protected]
+49 89 71043 3110

Javier Castresana
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+34 91 782 9814

Pierre Schleimer
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+352 44 44 5 5310