They are very impressive in how they are able to be creative around very complex situations and come up with a client-centered solution.
- Chambers USA, 2026
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
