Our Distressed M&A team have experience of a wide variety of distressed and insolvency-led M&A transactions.

Our distressed M&A team are experts in insolvency-led sales processes and accelerated M&A transactions regularly acting for sellers, creditors, administrators and buyers including turnaround and PE investors, their portfolio companies and corporates across the entire range of transactions – working quickly and efficiently to preserve value and help manage risk.  All designed to help you close the deal, not the door.

We are able to combine the firm's deep experience of M&A, private equity, financing, real estate and restructuring and can draw on the resources of our full service practice to deliver practical, risk-focussed advice often in very short timeframes. 

Our specialist team of commercially focused lawyers are flexible, cost-effective and pragmatic. We provide innovative solutions to the problems our clients face including advising upon:

• Accelerated M&A and "dual track" transactions
• Creditor instigated M&A transactions
• Acquisitions from administrators and liquidators
• Disposal of non-core business units and carve outs
• Loan-to-own transactions and debt transfers
• Recapitalisations and refinancings

Where time is of the essence and traditional forms of risk sharing are unavailable, we work hard to find innovative solutions to help clients identify and manage risks.  In distressed M&A transactions the scope for thorough due diligence can be limited and we can help you to be targeted and efficient to get the most information possible in the time available.  

And in circumstances where contractual recourse is less extensive we will work to help buyers and sellers mitigate their risks through maximising traditional recovery options, developing pricing structures that track the risk appetite of the counterparties or alternative recovery models, such as W&I insurance (including synthetic products).