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Trench Rossi Watanabe

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

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Trench Rossi Watanabe

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Trench Rossi Watanabe has been involved in many of Brazil's largest and most complex restructuring & insolvency transactions and disputes, involving sophisticated clients – financial institutions, investors, asset purchasers, secured and unsecured creditors.

The team participates in general creditors’ meetings, lenders and creditors' committees, as well as in negotiations with debtors, judicial administrators, third-party investors, and investment funds. It also represents lenders and creditors in recovery proceedings and renegotiations to foreclose and collect amounts and assets in Brazil due by debtors in financial distress.

It specializes in handling out-of-court debt restructurings; formal insolvency restructuring processes; schemes of arrangement; distressed acquisitions and disposals; operational restructurings; tax structuring in distressed scenarios; formal insolvency and closure options; complex financial and operational litigation arising out of financial distress.

One of the team’s greatest strengths lies in its multidisciplinary, seamlessly integrated approach to bankruptcy and insolvency work across borders. It brings together lawyers from a variety of disciplines to provide a full service offering that includes specialists in restructuring, finance, corporate, employment, tax, litigation, pensions, and real estate.

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Bankruptcy/Restructuring - Brazil

Band 5

Band 5


What the Team is Known For

Trench Rossi Watanabe is a full-service firm with a growing presence in complex restructuring and insolvency matters acting for a wide variety of sectors. The multidisciplinary team assists lenders and creditors in negotiations and recovering proceedings with debtors, investors, judicial administrators and investment funds.

Work Highlights

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  • Trench Rossi Watanabe advised Springer Carrier, Procter & Gamble and Nestlé Brasil as creditors on the judicial reorganisation of Ricardo Eletro Group.

Strengths

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  • Trench Rossi Watanabe offers technical knowledge, credibility in the market and availability.

    Bankruptcy/Restructuring respondentBrazil
  • Trench Rossi Watanabe boasts an exceptional team. It is extremely agile, with vast and in-depth legal knowledge and experience in the courts. Furthermore, it plays a strategic and preventative role that gives us a great deal of confidence.

    Bankruptcy/Restructuring respondentBrazil
  • Trench Rossi Watanabe is distinguished for its technical ability, understanding of business objectives and creativity in resolving difficulties.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Associates to watchMariana Fernandes Conrado
    Associates to watchMariana Fernandes Conrado

    Mariana Fernandes Conrado

    Associate-to-Watch Mariana Fernandes Conrado receives praise from clients for her intense activity representing clients in bankruptcy and restructuring matters.

    • Mariana Fernandes Conrado is the ideal partner for our business, combining technical knowledge, business vision and a strategic approach.

      Bankruptcy/Restructuring respondentBrazil
    • Mariana Fernandes Conrado is exceptional. She is highly competent, persistent, and extremely strategic and technically skilled.

      Bankruptcy/Restructuring respondentBrazil

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