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Provided by William Fry LLP
The William Fry expanding Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring team provides a comprehensive service on all aspects of insolvency, corporate and debt restructuring and personal bankruptcy. The team has been involved in Ireland’s most significant insolvencies and related cases in recent times including:
- advising Ballantyne Re plc on an Irish law scheme of arrangement to restructure US$1.6bn of New York law governed notes.
- acting for Naval Energies SAS in petitioning the High Court for the appointment of Joint Liquidators to the OpenHydro Group and resisting a petition for examinership presented by certain minority shareholders;
- advising NAMA appointed receiver, Declan MacDonald of PwC, in defence of proceedings issued by a property developer;
- acting for the Karen Millen Group in its acquisition of certain Coast assets from the provisional liquidator of the Irish entity following administration of the parent;
- advising EY as the Joint Administrators of Nortel Networks (Ireland) Limited
Our team has specific experience in aviation, manufacturing, retail, financial services, technology and property-based businesses. We use our experience to design and implement innovative commercial solutions in this complex field.
Chambers Review
William Fry houses a highly respected team which offers extensive experience and technical knowledge in restructuring and insolvency cases. The law firm advises domestic and multinational creditors as well as debtors and their subsidiaries. The leading team is also knowledgeable in solvent liquidations. William Fry additionally represents examiners, administrators and receivers in a variety of mandates, including litigation and enforcement proceedings.
Work Highlights
- A William Fry team advised an ad hoc group of bondholders led by Attestor Capital on securing orders for the liquidation of Russian state-owned and internationally sanctioned GTLK Europe Capital and its parent, GTLK Europe.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"William Fry is a very commercial firm with the ability to cut through and simplify complexity."
"William Fry is a very strong team – the best in Ireland, in my view."
"William Fry is a very commercial firm with the ability to cut through and simplify complexity."
"William Fry is a very strong team – the best in Ireland, in my view."
Notable Practitioners
Fergus Doorly frequently acts on restructuring processes, often representing debtors and insolvency practitioners.
"Fergus Doorly is very highly experienced and hard-working in his clients' interests."
"He is commercially very smart."
Ruairi Rynn is noted for his work on liquidation processes, examinership proceedings and schemes of arrangement.
"Rynn and team worked well together. They are experienced and are good at strategising where a case goes."
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Clients
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Airplanes Holdings Limited
Allied Irish Banks plc
BDO Ireland - David O'Connor and Jim Hamilton
Bank of Ireland
Bibby Financial Services (Ireland) Limited
Close Invoice Finance Limited
DCNS - Openhydro
Debenhams Group
Deutsche Bank / Havbell
Duff & Phelps - Declan Taite
Ernst & Young - David Hughes & Alan Bloom & Luke Charleton
Grant Thornton - Aengus Burns and Stephen Tennant
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (In Special Liquidation)
KPMG - Kieran Wallace
McStay Luby - Jim Luby and Tom Rogers
Myles Kirby of Kirby Healy
National Asset Management Agency (NAMA)
Neil Hughes of Baker Tilly Hughes Blake
PK Airfinances S.a.r.l and DVD Bank SE
PWC - Declan McDonald as Receiver of Treasury Holdings Co
Pepper Financial Services Limited
RSM Ireland - George Maloney
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