Restructuring

Orrick's restructuring lawyers deliver winning results, client-focused service and efficient strategies to clients involved in restructurings and insolvencies. We routinely work on complex restructurings and financing transactions and offer clients value-added legal advice, from negotiation and mediation to litigation and counseling. We have successfully represented many different constituencies in virtually every aspect of corporate reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings, insolvency and liquidation matters.

Our lawyers, who have a track record of leadership and creativity, draw on the experience of other Orrick practitioners, including those in corporate, finance, securities, litigation, tax, pension and real estate, to deliver a full range of restructuring-related legal services to major financial, commercial and industrial institutions around the world.

Areas of Focus

• Formal Court Proceedings
  Represent debtors, creditors, committees, fiduciaries and lender groups in formal bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings in courts around the world.
  
  
• Out-Of-Court Restructurings
  Represent secured lenders, lender groups and other senior creditors in complex financial restructurings, recapitalizations and rescue financings.
  
  
• Distressed Assets and Alternative Investments
  Represent buyers and sellers of distressed loans and claims, and in distressed merger and acquisition mandates.
  
  
• Financial and Structured Products
  Represent secured lenders, financial institutions and other sophisticated investors in the restructuring of financial products and complex corporate, capital markets and derivative products to limit bankruptcy and commercial risks.

Industry Experience

We represent clients in cutting-edge matters across a range of industries.

• Airline & Transportation
• Automotive
• Consumer Products & Services
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Media & Telecommunications
• Mining
• Real Estate
• Retail
• Technology

Representative Clients

Leading global companies engage Orrick to serve as counsel.

• ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
• Bank of America
• Blue Sky Capital
• Citizens Bank
• City of Vallejo
• Cooper Industries, Ltd. (In re Federal-Mogul Corporation)
• D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
• Eos International, Inc.
• Eurotunnel (ad hoc committee)
• Fuji Bank
• Intel Corporation
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Koch Industries
• Nomura Capital and Credit Inc.
• Philippine Airlines
• Plainfield Asset Management
• Potomac Electric Power Company
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Sandell Asset Management
• Sigma Financial Corporation (common interest group)
• Stone & Webster, Inc. (creditor's committee)
• Telecom Italia SpA
• The Bank of Nova Scotia
• USA Capital Diversified Trust Fund (equity committee)
• United Online, Inc.
• W.R. Grace & Co. (court-appointed fiduciary)
• Wells Fargo & Company
• WestLB AG

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