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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.


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    Fergus Doorly
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    Fergus Doorly
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    Ruairi Rynn
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    Ruairi Rynn
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    Craig Sowman
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    Craig Sowman
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    Members

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    Deirdre Murphy

    Niamh Cacciato

    Ruairi Rynn

    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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    Food & Drink Producers

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    Health Care

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