Restructuring/Insolvency - New Zealand
Band 1
What the Team is Known For
Buddle Findlay boasts a diverse restructuring and insolvency legal team, including a leading offering for transactional and contentious matters involving overseas jurisdictions. The firm is noted for its expertise regarding insolvency regulations, banking and finance more broadly, and debt and corporate restructures. The team acts principally for major creditors and insolvency professionals, advising on issues from creditor priorities and personal property securities issues to workouts and bond restructuring.
Strengths
What sets Buddle Findlay apart is their deep expertise, including both insolvency-specific advice and litigation support.
What stood out was their availability, the depth and breadth to get expert partners involved, and their ability to seamlessly bring those partners in to work with us.
Work Highlights
Buddle Findlay advised Grant Thornton as liquidators of the SZ Group, an integrated solar energy and storage business.
Notable practitioners
David Perry offers a wealth of knowledge drawn from more than 20 years' experience. He has particularly notable expertise in the workout sphere.
David is a very strong, experienced practitioner.
Scott Abel acts on both insolvency and debt restructuring matters and is also particularly well-known for his personal properties securities expertise. In addition, he is well-regarded for enforcement, debt restructuring and securities advice.
Scott Abel is extremely intelligent, responsive and brings a proactive, considered approach.
Scott Barker is based in Wellington where he is active on debt and asset recovery litigation, as well as enforcement mandates.
Scott Barker is a fierce litigator. He is extremely robust, prompt, proactive and strategically very good.
He’s not shy of a fight, but he knows when it is required and when not to go down the litigation route. He knows how to give commercial advice. He is very highly respected.
