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Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in …
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Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland. Over 140 lawyers in Zurich, Geneva and Singapore advise domestic and international clients on all aspects of business law. The firm's areas of expertise include: banking and finance, competition and antitrust, construction, dispute resolution and international arbitration, intellectual property/information technology, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, private clients and estates, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, taxation, white-collar crime and compliance.
Schellenberg Wittmer’s Restructuring and Insolvency Group features specialists highly practiced at providing the highest level of representation and advice in all national and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. We have the know-how and experience in taking on the most complex insolvency matters, including those with an international dimension, such as the enforcement of foreign insolvency proceedings in Switzerland.
Our Restructuring and Insolvency Group offers advice and assistance to our clients inter alia in the following areas:
- Debt enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency law;
- Corporate restructuring and turnaround;
- Acquisition of a distressed business;
- Representation of creditors during moratorium, composition and bankruptcy proceedings, including preparation, filing and enforcement of creditor’s claims;
- Monitoring and administration of a company under moratorium or in composition proceedings;
- Monitoring, administration and liquidation of insolvent banks and securities dealers;
- Freezing orders and other provisional measures, and enforcement of such foreign decisions;
- Recognition of foreign insolvency decrees and representation of foreign bankruptcy trustees and receivers in Switzerland; enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards;
- Realization of pledged and seized assets;
- Special administration of the estate of a bankrupt company;
- Debt collection.