Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer (1+)

Restructuring, Insolvency, Associate, Senior Associate, Lawyer, Solicitor


The Firm
This top 100 law firm with four offices across the UK are looking for a restructuring and insolvency lawyer. The firm merged in 2018, bringing together two firms with excellent reputations. Their restructuring and insolvency team is deemed top tier by the legal directories.

Your new role
The role will encompass advisory (including turnaround and contingency options), transactional non-contentious work and contentious work with links to the firm's corporate, finance and real estate teams, amongst others, providing advice to all stakeholders in stressed and distressed situations including lenders, investors, corporates, directors and individuals, in addition to acting for insolvency practitioners. You should show evidence of understanding what is needed to help grow and develop a restructuring & insolvency practice and be willing to initiate and participate in marketing and business development activities with enthusiasm, confidence and ambition.

What they are looking for
The ideal candidate will have experience across the full range of individual and corporate restructuring and insolvency matters with noticeable emphasis on:

• Acquisitions of distressed business
• Business contingency and exit planning
• Board advisory
• Business restructuring and turnaround strategy
• Debt and asset recovery
• Debt reconstruction and consolidation
• Dispute resolution (including mediations, arbitrations and other forms of ADR)
• Cross-border insolvency, forensics and international asset-tracing and recovery
• Insolvency and Companies Act offences and regulatory advice including director disqualification proceedings and fraud-based insolvency
• Liquidations (whether solvent, compulsory or voluntary) receiverships (court or LPA appointed), administrations, voluntary arrangements and bankruptcies
• Refinancing and general security advice

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