Restructuring/Insolvency

As one of New Zealand’s strongest restructuring and insolvency teams, we’ve advised on many of the most complex and difficult insolvencies in recent years. We offer genuine depth and breadth of experience in restructuring and insolvency across our three offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Our firm is acknowledged as restructuring and insolvency leaders in New Zealand particularly for its expertise in:

• debt restructuring and distressed debt including all of the significant debt restructurings over the last few years.

• designing and effecting a number of significant schemes and compromises including the first and largest finance company moratoriums, and

• finance company receiverships - we have acted for the receivers on 5 of the 10 largest finance company receiverships.
  
  

Our lawyers routinely act for creditors, receivers, liquidators and administrators on all issues arising in formal insolvency processes including receiverships, liquidations, voluntary administrations and schemes of arrangement. We also advise banks, financiers and other creditors on debt restructuring compromises, recoveries and insolvent transactions. These issues are frequently highly contentious.

The advice we provide on risk, strategy and tactics for insolvencies is focused on an efficient outcome and finding ways to bring disputes to a commercially sensible resolution wherever possible.