Services in the area of Attorneys at Law

We specialise in advising companies going through crisis situations. Together with the management, we examine whether and when grounds for insolvency exist, clarify the possibilities of avoiding insolvency and steer the management team through the crisis and liability risks.

We will sit down with you to explore all the available reorganisation options.

If your investment is in crisis, we will provide advice with the aim of identifying options together and retaining the value of the business.

We advise creditors and financiers when their customers are in crisis situations and also represent them in insolvency proceedings and on creditors’ committees. To avoid the risks of default, we draw on our many years of experience as insolvency administrators to support financiers …

We also support reorganisations through what are known as double-sided trusts, enabling further financing with the consent of the banks as well as the reorganisation and retention of the enterprise value. 

Personnel issues are almost always an extremely important element to consider when companies find themselves in financial difficulties or crises. Employment law can entail considerable risks that make a reorganisation appear pointless.

We support domestic and foreign investors in national and cross-border acquisitions of companies out of crisis and insolvency.

In many insolvency proceedings suppliers, service providers and consultants to the insolvent business face demands from the insolvency administrator to repay payments made to them (contesting of a transaction pursuant to sections 129 et seq. of the German Insolvency Code (InsO)).

In many cases the institutions of insolvent companies find themselves exposed to liability claims brought by the insolvency administrator because the request for insolvency was allegedly filed too late. The insolvency administrator claims that the illiquidity or overindebtedness arose at an …

We also advise our national and foreign clients in international restructuring scenarios or other cross-border issues relating to insolvency law. We support both foreign clients in insolvency cases in Germany and German clients in questions relating to insolvency law abroad. 

In contrast to the case with classic insolvency proceedings, in debtor-in-possession management the existing management team largely retains control. As privileged reorganisation proceedings, it reinforces a positive external effect. The earlier the possibility of debtor-in-possession management …

In insolvency administration, our core areas of expertise lie in the continuation as a going concern, restructuring and retention of companies. Here we use all the instruments of the German Insolvency Code (protective shield, debtor-in-possession management, insolvency plan).

Our comprehensive expertise as insolvency administrators also allows us to support business reorganisations in debtor-in-possession management proceedings as insolvency monitors. 

As consultants, we contribute the experience we have gained from several thousand insolvency proceedings and many corporate transactions out of crisis, insolvency and special situations.