Special Situations
We advise on and invest in businesses, debt and assets in situations of complexity, transition or financial distress.
Our work includes distressed debt and restructurings. We participate as adviser, investor or principal.
Situations may arise from ownership change, business separations or an insolvency process. They can also involve stranded assets and rights whose value depends on resolving obstacles to a transaction.
Our Work
- Distressed debt and restructurings
- Ownership transitions and business separations
- Distressed acquisitions and disposals
- Stranded assets and intellectual property
How We Work
We assess the position of the business or asset and the options available to the parties involved.
Our role can include identifying buyers or investors and structuring transactions. We lead negotiations and work with the relevant advisers to coordinate the steps needed for completion.
Where several stakeholders are involved, we work through competing interests to establish a viable transaction.
Who We Work With
- Businesses and their owners
- Lenders and other creditors
- Private and institutional investors
- Insolvency practitioners and professional advisers
Selected Experience
Distressed Business Acquisition
Brought a regional buyer into the administration sale of a pharmaceutical manufacturing business and structured the acquisition, coordinating assessment of the plant, licences and associated rights.
Insolvency Claim Funding
Arranged litigation funding for recovery claims arising from a corporate liquidation, including unfair-preference and insolvent-trading claims. We screened the claims and placed them with a specialist funder.
Stranded Technology Rights
Structured a new venture around stranded cyanide-free gold-extraction technology rights, bringing together the rights holders and an Asia-based commercial partner and agreeing the licensing terms.
Distressed Inventory Disposal
Arranged the sale of 40 tonnes of pistachios held in the Middle East by a producer under financial pressure, identifying alternative buyers across Europe and Asia and negotiating the sale.
Discuss a Special Situation
Contact us to discuss a business, debt position or asset requiring a tailored approach.
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