Restructuring and
Insolvency
Our Restructuring & Insolvency practice advises domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries on complex insolvency proceedings and debt restructuring matters, both in Brazil and abroad.
Our multidisciplinary team is equipped to handle sophisticated and highly sensitive matters requiring expertise across multiple legal disciplines. Our lawyers combine outstanding academic credentials with extensive practical experience. The depth of our expertise has been shaped not only through advanced legal scholarship and pioneering research, but also through our award-winning role in some of the largest and most complex restructuring cases of the past decade. This experience enables us to provide strategic guidance on critical issues, helping clients protect their interests while responding swiftly, accurately, and effectively to highly challenging situations. Working seamlessly with the firm’s other practice groups, we are able to manage matters of any scale or complexity, address highly specialized issues, and develop innovative, tailor-made solutions.
Our approach is both versatile and creative. While our extensive experience provides a solid foundation, we treat every client and every matter as unique. By understanding each client’s specific objectives and paying close attention to the details, we develop practical, customized strategies designed to achieve the best possible outcome.
Our services include:
- Advising on the planning, development, and implementation of strategies related to out-of-court debt restructurings, insolvency, judicial and out-of-court reorganizations, and bankruptcy proceedings, including representation in court proceedings and creditors’ meetings.
- Advising on credit preservation and recovery strategies, as well as representing clients in enforcement and collection proceedings.
- Negotiating and drafting multi-party agreements, including debt restructuring agreements, security agreements, and judicial and out-of-court reorganization plans.
- Advising on the planning, structuring, risk assessment, and implementation of strategies involving:
- the acquisition or disposal of assets of financially distressed companies, including going-concern business units;
- the acquisition or sale of equity interests in financially distressed companies, including controlling interests;
- the acquisition of claims against financially distressed companies;
- corporate restructurings, including debt-to-equity conversions; and
- the extension, restructuring, and refinancing of loans and security arrangements, as well as other forms of financing for financially distressed companies.