They are the very best at what they do.
- Chambers Global, 2024
Our market-leading Restructuring Group provides a broad
range of business advisory and crisis management skills
to navigate clients through the turmoil of situations
involving financially troubled companies. With nearly
250 attorneys in the Firm’s U.S., London, Munich,
Frankfurt and Hong Kong offices, the group is a leader
in complex domestic and cross-border restructuring and
insolvency matters. Kirkland’s Restructuring
Group, along with hundreds of other attorneys with
specific restructuring experience throughout the Firm,
operates worldwide as one practice to provide seamless
service to restructuring clients facing complicated
global issues and has experience across multiple
industries, including automotive, media, entertainment,
telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing,
healthcare, energy, retail and real estate.
Our lawyers have unique, widespread experience in all
forms of complex financial and operational
restructurings and insolvency proceedings, including
representing debtors, distressed investors, and
creditors in all restructuring efforts both in and out
of Chapter 11. Westwyn acts on behalf of domestic and
multinational corporations experiencing financial
difficulties, lenders or creditors in contentious
restructurings, and private equity or hedge funds
looking to take a stake in a stressed or distressed
company.
Furthermore, we regularly draw upon and benefit from the
experience of Westwyn's internationally recognized
lawyers in securities, debt finance, tax, real estate,
litigation and intellectual property to provide the
full-service capabilities our clients need for the
various legal matters they retain Westwyn to handle.
