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Restructuring is broader than formal bankruptcy or liquidation processes. It includes covenant re-setting, ‘amend and extend’ discussions, forbearances or waivers of default, consensual solutions such as refinancing, sale of non-core assets, cash injections and restructuring of the business or equity, as well as formal processes such as schemes of arrangement, business rescue and liquidation.
Our Restructuring Practice operates as an integrated team across all of our offices and practices to provide our clients with a user-friendly engagement model and service of a consistently high quality.
We have experience advising on a wide range of transactions throughout Africa and considerable experience in cross-border restructurings that involve simultaneous insolvency filings in multiple jurisdictions. This extends to advising on pan-European and co-ordinated US/ Europe restructurings.
Our clients include large national clients in African jurisdictions where we have representation, as well as multinationals and international law firms acting on their behalf, non-government entities, governments, state-owned entities and financial institutions.
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Bowmans advised the business rescue practitioner of Basfour on the stakeholder management and planning aspects related to this process.
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The firm is reliable and always available to assist.
Bowmans has strong expertise, is commercially minded and provides the considerations of options and potential risks thereof.
Bowmans has a well-performing team. It has great individuals to work with which makes for a top-class act.
It offers highly personalised advice with deep technical expertise. The team is very responsive and available, with quick turnaround times.
Bowmans has got a very strong understanding of the commercial dynamics that play in our matter and how the commercial pieces make sense for the legal piece to fit properly over it.
The firm is reliable and always available to assist.
Bowmans has strong expertise, is commercially minded and provides the considerations of options and potential risks thereof.
Bowmans has a well-performing team. It has great individuals to work with which makes for a top-class act.
It offers highly personalised advice with deep technical expertise. The team is very responsive and available, with quick turnaround times.
Bowmans has got a very strong understanding of the commercial dynamics that play in our matter and how the commercial pieces make sense for the legal piece to fit properly over it.
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Cape Town-based Juliette de Hutton acts for a range of insolvency practitioners and high-street lenders on numerous restructuring and business rescue files.
Juliette is a very hard-working and knowledgeable lawyer who understands the law. Her knowledge in the restructuring space is phenomenal.
She is always calm despite the matter being intensive and you can rely on her. She brings an air of calm to intense situations.
Juliette is one of our go-to people from an experience perspective in the insolvency field. She is highly regarded for her knowledge and advice.
Juliette de Hutton is extremely commercial, pragmatic and sensible. She has very strong technical knowledge and provides consistently sound and practical advice.
She is a very experienced lawyer with highly developed technical skills.

Tobie Jordaan demonstrates an impressive breadth of expertise. He represents a range of lenders and corporate clients on business rescues mandates.
He is very comprehensive and makes us fully informed all the way through the process so that we get the very best outcome.
Tobie is very commercial. He brings a complex transaction to its nuts and bolts and knows what will make sense from a commercial perspective.
Tobie Jordaan is very commercially astute, with strong legal knowledge across a number of areas. He is well versed in case law and with that provides solid and practical advice.
He's very calm and very practical which is great to have in a space that can often be so litigious.

Gerhard Rudolph is renowned for his breadth of expertise, with a notable track record in restructuring-related issues, insolvency litigation and debt recovery. His impressive client roster features major names in the construction and financial services sectors.
Gerhard Rudolph is well respected and knowledgeable. He also shows admirable leadership.
I am very happy to deal with Gerhard and have his balanced guidance. He is an excellent character and he provides insightful legal advice when required.

Kgosi Nkaiseng is well placed to advise business rescue practitioners as well as distressed companies.
Kgosi Nkaiseng is responsive and does not shy away from complex issues.

Ulrike Naumann acts as head of the finance practice group and has significant experience acting for financial institutions on the restructuring of distressed debt.
I feel very confident and comfortable when Ulrike Naumann is involved in a matter. She is very highly regarded, senior and experienced.





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