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King & Spalding represents a broad range of clients in complex and high profile restructuring matters and in other situations involving financially distressed businesses. We are regularly retained in bankruptcy cases pending throughout the United States, including cases presenting multi-jurisdictional and cross-border issues. Our practice focuses on representing institutional lenders, alternative asset managers and other secured creditors, financially distressed borrowers/debtors, buyers of assets in connection with distressed M&A transactions, and parties in connection with insolvency-related litigation.
Working closely with our Finance, Private Equity, Healthcare, Energy and Capital Markets teams, our representations span a variety of industries, with particular emphasis on the retail, healthcare, energy, restaurant, hospitality, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, manufacturing, media and telecommunications sectors.
Financially distressed companies must be as efficient as possible when working to restructure or reorganize their businesses. Advance planning, liability management analysis and a coordinated approach among specialists and stakeholders are critical components to any successful reorganization. We have handled financial restructurings on behalf of a variety of stakeholders, so we understand the varied perspectives, motivations and concerns from all sides of a transaction.
Our secured lender clients (including ad hoc groups of lenders) seek out the Financial Restructuring team to maximize their recoveries in connection with out-of-court workouts, formal in-court reorganizations, debtor-in-possession loans, Chapter 11 exit financings, and prepackaged and pre-arranged Chapter 11 plans. Our “one team” approach across practice areas allows us to provide a seamless and comprehensive client representation.
We are regularly retained to represent financially distressed businesses in connection with workouts, restructurings or reorganizations, including portfolio company investments held by private equity firms and hedge funds. By working with other lawyers in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice area, we are able to offer legal services throughout the lifecycle of a distressed company.
We frequently represent strategic and financial buyers of assets and businesses in Chapter 11 cases. We help our clients identify opportunities and navigate the complexities of these transactions by analyzing the circumstances and helping devise structures and approaches that maximize the likelihood of a successful deal.
We also represent litigants in contested matters, adversary proceedings and other bankruptcy and insolvency litigation involving creditors’ rights, lender liability and alter ego liability.
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Lender Liability Quarterly – November 2024
August 15, 2024
Disclosure Takeaways From Superdry Restructuring Plan
July 31, 2024
Lender Liability Quarterly – July 2024
November 20, 2024
Michael Handler and Thad Wilson counsel minority lenders in a DIP financing dispute against the American Tire Distributors
October 30, 2024
Jeffrey Dutson Elected as Trustee of the American College of Investment Counsel
October 17, 2024
American Bankruptcy Institute Names Michael Handler to its “40 Under 40” Emerging Leaders in Insolvency List
September 18, 2024
Red Lobster Emerges From Bankruptcy with New Owners
June 7, 2024
King & Spalding Secures TRO for Leadenhall
Thad Wilson to Speak at Thomson Reuters West LegalEdcenter’s Webinar
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