Our service is comprehensive and tailored to all aspects of corporate debt recoveries, informal business turnarounds and formal restructurings. We understand the legal and regulatory landscape, and can advise on:
Corporate Debt
- Recovery of debts (including perfection of security)
- Forensic Investigations
- Protective orders
- Insolvency Enquiries
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Cross-border recognition proceedings
Turnaround (informal process)
- Business Optimisation
- Structural and operational reorganisation
- Capital restructuring
- Advising on risks
- Crisis stabilisation
- Stakeholder management
- Board/shareholder deadlocks
- Distressed M&A
Restructuring (formal process)
- Compromises
- Business rescue
- Liquidation and sequestration proceedings
- Cross-border insolvency and recognition proceedings
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Our service is comprehensive and tailored to all aspects of corporate debt recoveries, informal business turnarounds and formal restructurings. We understand the legal and regulatory landscape, and can advise on:
Corporate Debt
- Recovery of debts (including perfection of security)
- Forensic Investigations
- Protective orders
- Insolvency Enquiries
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Cross-border recognition proceedings
Turnaround (informal process)
- Business Optimisation
- Structural and operational reorganisation
- Capital restructuring
- Advising on risks
- Crisis stabilisation
- Stakeholder management
- Board/shareholder deadlocks
- Distressed M&A
Restructuring (formal process)
- Compromises
- Business rescue
- Liquidation and sequestration proceedings
- Cross-border insolvency and recognition proceedings
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2022
2021
Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring Lawyers
Our Corporate Debt, Turnaround & Restructuring team provides strategy advice to boards of directors where the company is financially distressed, to ensure that the directors do not fall foul of their obligations in terms of the Company’s Act.
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Market recognition
- Chambers Global 2018 - 2025 ranked us in Band 2 for restructuring/insolvency.
Market recognition
- Chambers Global 2018 - 2025 ranked us in Band 2 for restructuring/insolvency.
Happy Clients
"The team were extremely responsive and commercially minded. Their strengths include effective teamwork and mindfulness of costs. They worked under very tight timelines and never once let me down."
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