Ashurst's corporate practice offers clients commercial and practical advice on a broad spectrum of corporate work.
With over 50 partners in six European jurisdictions and Asia, Ashurst has the strength and depth necessary to provide high quality commercial advice to the world's leading and most ambitious companies and institutions. We also recognise that clients need clear solutions to complex problems from dedicated teams who strive for technical excellence.
We advise companies, financial institutions and private equity houses on a variety of complex transactions, and we provide ongoing corporate advice. In addition to our public and private M&A capability, our expertise extends to advising clients on private equity, equity capital markets, prime brokerage, corporate derivatives, the establishment of investment funds and restructuring and insolvency.
In particular Ashurst's European restructuring and distressed investing group advises on all issues arising from corporate distress, distressed investing and formal insolvencies in Europe including:
Restructuring
- Directors' duties
- Debtor-led restructuring
- Creditor-led restructuring
- Refinancing
- Debt/equity swaps
- Schemes and CVAs
Distressed investing
- Due diligence
- Debt control transactions
- Single name and portfolio trading
- Claims trading
- Tax and acquisition structuring
- Acquisition funding
- Exits (securitisation and repackaging, etc.)
Formal insolvencies
- Choice of forum
- Choice of process
- Pre-packs
- Advising insolvency administrators
- Advising lenders
- Advising creditors
- Litigation
The group comprises a specialist team of 20 partners and a further 30 lawyers based in our offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Madrid and Brussels. Members of the group are recognised as leaders in their fields and have been involved in some of the largest, most complex and innovative restructurings and insolvencies of recent times. Where necessary they are able to draw upon the full range of expertise available to Ashurst as a full service international law firm.
We are looking for an associate who has a background in restructuring and insolvency to join our established practice. The successful candidate should ideally come from a top UK or US practice.
