Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy

Orrick's preeminent Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Group consists of highly skilled and experienced lawyers who seek innovative solutions to maximize value and achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients. Utilizing our international platform, Orrick provides a range of legal services to major financial, commercial and industrial institutions around the world. Our lawyers — who have a track record of demonstrated leadership and entrepreneurialism — develop and implement creative strategies to solve complex situations, drawing upon, as necessary, the experience of other Orrick practitioners, including corporate, finance, securities, litigation, tax, pension and real estate, among others.

Scope of Practice

Orrick is renowned for its successful representation of many different constituencies in insolvency-related matters around the world. The breadth of our experience is exceptional, ranging from exchange offers and other out-of-court restructurings to virtually every aspect of corporate reorganization and liquidation.

We also have been involved in numerous bank, trust company, and insurance company rehabilitation and liquidation proceedings, often acting for state regulatory bodies. We counsel, help structure and provide opinions on the commercial and bankruptcy implications of proposed transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, project and structured financings, leveraged leases and other transactional work.

Given our extensive relationships within the financial community and our innovative techniques in negotiating, mediating and litigating, we are recognized leaders in preserving and creating value for the different constituencies we represent - whether a debtor, a large corporation or institutional creditor, a formal or informal committee, a trustee, an examiner, a future claims representative, a party interested in acquiring a financially distressed company or its assets, or other interested parties.

Recognition

Orrick has been centrally involved in some of the most notable restructurings and mass tort reorganizations over the past decade. This experience, combined with our firmwide emphasis on innovation, has led to our reputation for developing effective, cutting-edge strategies. Orrick's Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Group has garnered an international reputation for excellence. Some recent examples include:

• American College of Bankruptcy
  Two Orrick partners are fellows of the American College of Bankruptcy, an honorary association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals whose members are invited based upon a proven record of the highest standards of professionalism and service to the industry.
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2006
  Orrick was recognized for its leading bankruptcy and restructuring practices in California and Washington D.C., in Chambers USA. In addition, three Orrick partners were recognized as leaders in the area of bankruptcy and restructuring in their respective jurisdictions.
• Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2005
  Orrick's restructuring and insolvency practice in London was recognized by Chambers UK.
• The Deal
  Orrick was among the top law firms based on the number of active bankruptcy matters in the United States, according to The Deal's most recent survey of bankruptcy activity. In addition, two Orrick partners — one in New York and one in San Francisco — were recognized as leading bankruptcy lawyers based on active assignments in 2005 as detailed in The Deal's Bankruptcy Insider.
• National Bankruptcy Conference
  An Orrick partner is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an organization of lawyers, law instructors and bankruptcy judges who have achieved scholarly distinction in the field of bankruptcy law.
• American College of Investment Counsel
  Four Orrick partners are members of the American College of Investment Counsel, an honorary association of investment professionals whose membership is based upon significant experience representing institutional investors in connection with their investments.
• PLC Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook 2006-2007
  An Orrick partner was recognized as a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer in the most recent edition of the Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook.

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