Andersen provides comprehensive advisory services in restructuring, special situations, and transactions in distressed environments, supporting companies and multinational groups during periods of financial stress, liquidity constraints, balance sheet deterioration, or structural changes that require swift responses and strategic decision-making. The practice is focused both on early risk identification and on designing solutions that stabilize the business and ensure its continuity.
The team is involved in corporate reorganizations, debt refinancing processes, and financial analysis, developing viability plans that are negotiated with financial institutions, investors, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The objective is to build sustainable structures that preserve value, restore operations, and enhance the company’s competitive position.
Andersen also advises on restructuring frameworks, refinancing agreements, pre-insolvency mechanisms, and the legal management of domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings. In addition, the team supports creditors in the protection and enforcement of their claims, as well as in assessing debtor solvency to ensure effective recovery.
From a transactional perspective, the team has extensive experience in distressed M&A, advising investors, funds, and companies seeking to acquire or divest assets or business units in special situations. This includes opportunity identification, risk assessment, legal and financial structuring of transactions, and the accelerated negotiation processes typical of distressed scenarios.
Finally, the practice is involved in the prevention and analysis of conduct that may give rise to corporate, tax, or criminal liability, as well as in the defense of directors and officers — both de jure and de facto — in highly complex litigation.
Services:
Corporate Restructuring
- Design and implementation of viability plans with financial institutions and suppliers to achieve optimal financial and capital structure.
- Implementation of labor measures aimed at adapting the company’s operational and organizational structure to new circumstances.
- Execution of out-of-court and in-court processes, both in distressed situations and in pre-insolvency stages.
- Out-of-court payment agreements and insolvency proceedings.
- Sale of assets, production lines, and business units.
- Legal management and advisory in domestic and international insolvency proceedings, particularly in distressed situations.
Credit Protection & Recovery
- Assessment of debtor solvency, with particular focus on distressed scenarios.
- Advisory on contract negotiation and the structuring of guarantees to protect claims.
- Advisory on contracting with financially distressed companies.
- Legal defense and enforcement of claims in both individual enforcement proceedings and insolvency proceedings.
Acquisition of Companies and Assets
- Legal due diligence in buy-side and sell-side transactions, particularly in distressed M&A scenarios.
- End-to-end legal advisory throughout domestic and cross-border acquisitions, mitigating legal risks, especially in distressed contexts.
- Defense against clawback actions in distressed proceedings.
Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
- Analysis and prevention of conduct that may give rise to corporate, tax, or criminal liability, with a particular focus on distressed and restructuring contexts.
- Defense of directors’ and officers’ liability (both de facto and de jure), particularly in complex proceedings related to distressed situations.
Areas of Specialization:
- Insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
- Credit protection and recovery
- Insolvency law
- Distressed M&A (acquisition and divestment of companies and assets)
- Financial distress and liquidity pressure
- Corporate restructuring
- Refinancing and creditor negotiations
- Directors’ and officers’ liability
- Special situations and risk prevention