Maximise Opportunity, Minimise Risk
As
the UK moves out of recession and the economy begins to recover,
businesses face different challenges. These include
constraints on working capital for many businesses and their
suppliers and customers. These pressures will increase in the
event of interest rates rising and renewed liquidity reduction in
debt markets. With significant levels of debt maturing over
the coming months refinancing may prove difficult or impossible for
some.
Whatever challenges or opportunities your business
is facing, either directly or through your supplier or customer
chain, we are here to help you optimise the outcome and make it
easier for you.
Whether you are looking to acquire or fund other
businesses in difficulty or whether your business is facing
challenges of its own, we have advisers experienced in the right
areas to steer the best legal course for you.
We provide immediate availability and clear
guidance – both of which are critical in stressed and distressed
situations. Our approach is to build the right team around
the project rather than try and fit a project into our own
structures. Frequently, this means drawing together
specialists from a number of our groups, each of whom are familiar
with working together on stressed and distressed related
projects. The benefits of this include rapid and
comprehensive solutions provided by experienced specialists,
without incurring the delay or costs of lawyers on a learning
curve.
Transactions and Restructuring - our
Special Situations Group
Our Special Situations Group
advises companies and funders on situations, mainly
transactional, where businesses are suffering from financial stress
or distress and also advises investors and trade buyers taking
advantage of opportunities to acquire or invest in businesses in
these circumstances at a reduced price.
Because these projects invariably require a number
of different key legal skills, we have a multi-disciplinary team to
deliver comprehensive legal solutions. Our team brings
together members of our Corporate, Restructuring, Banking and
Property Groups with additional support from our HR, pensions,
taxation, disputes and commercial teams – a focused, comprehensive
and dynamic approach to optimise the outcome.
The members of this team have trained and worked together in
these situations so they can provide immediate and complete legal
solutions without a delay or learning curve.
For more information or immediate assistance, please contact
Stephen Levy or Jamie White.
Click through to see examples of our successful Special Situations assignments.