Creditors & Committees
Overview
They have such a deep bench and can handle anything. - Chambers USA, 2024
The financial restructuring process involves numerous stakeholders and competing interests. Managing the parties’ various agendas is difficult, yet essential to achieving a successful result in any restructuring situation. Kirkland’s restructuring attorneys have extensive experience in the representation of various creditors/creditor constituencies in distressed situations. Kirkland routinely represents:
- Purchasers of assets/companies out of bankruptcy
- Lenders in secured and unsecured financings for distressed companies
- Private equity funds and hedge funds in restructuring and insolvency situations
- Ad hoc committees in negotiating with debtors and other stakeholders to restructure financially distressed companies
Tier 1 National Ranking: Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency & Reorganization Law
U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers’ 2023 "Best Law Firms"
Named #1 Firm in the World in Restructuring Seven Years in a Row
Global Restructuring Review’s GRR 30 Rankings, 2017–2023