Weil’s Houston office is gaining a new restructuring partner, Simpson Thacher is promoting in London, and Cleary is elevating a senior attorney in New York, as White & Case names four new partners across the US and Europe for 2024, and Interpath promotes two new directors.
28 November 2023
Pre-pack pioneer and former longtime chair of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s global restructuring group Jay Goffman and former UBS global restructuring head Steve Smith have started what they tell GRR is a unique “pre-restructuring” advisory boutique in New York.
02 November 2023
The stigma of liability management has gone and higher interest rates are driving a new wave of transactions, according to a panellist at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ annual conference in Texas.
18 October 2023
Shearman & Sterling, Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Nantes Mello Advogados have helped Brazilian airline Azul issue US$370 million worth of notes, allowing it to complete the restructuring of its obligations with several stakeholders.
16 October 2023
A team from Linklaters has helped the UK’s Metro Bank work out a weekend rescue deal with shareholders and noteholders that will see it raise £325 million in capital and refinance £600 million in debt.
09 October 2023
There is still time to secure a spot at GRR Live in New York, which returns next week with a packed schedule covering the ongoing crypto fallout, post-insolvency financings in Latin America, growing headwinds for cross-border recognition and the new Cayman Islands restructuring officer regime.
15 September 2023
Bringing together top speakers from the international insolvency circuit, GRR Live is returning to New York with a packed day covering global developments in distressed financing, growing headwinds for cross-border recognition, commercial real estate turmoil and the ongoing crypto fallout.
25 August 2023
A British Virgin Islands judge has found that the ultimate beneficial owner of New York law-governed notes issued by a Chinese property developer has standing to present a winding up petition against it as a contingent creditor, declining to follow the recent Shinsun decision from the Cayman Islands.
09 August 2023
Baker McKenzie has nabbed a trio of partners and an of counsel with restructuring experience from Paul Hastings, strengthening its Latin American offering.
20 June 2023
“Sophisticated financial titans engaged in a winner-takes-it-all battle. There was a winner and a loser”. North American bedding group Serta Simmons has secured approval of its “extraordinarily complex” Chapter 11 plan, after a Texas judge rejected objections from lenders who argued a 2020 liability management transaction the debtor engaged in breached an implied covenant of good faith.
08 June 2023
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