Restructuring/Insolvency
Europe Guide 2024 : Italy
Band 2
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Provided by Linklaters
Our restructuring and insolvency team is renowned for advising Italian and international banks and other financial investors and financial sponsors, as well as borrowers, on the largest, most high profile and complex insolvencies in Italy and in the wider European market.
We have a wide ranging and well-balanced practice acting for all manner of stakeholders on debt restructuring and rescheduling, equity capital raising and restructuring, distressed M&A activity, investigation, asset tracing and insolvency litigation, formal insolvency procedures and contingency planning, distressed creditor and equity investment and trading and debtor advisory work.
Chambers Review
Linklaters hosts an eminent restructuring team assisting financial institutions with recovery strategies and debt restructuring. The law firm regularly offers advice on precautionary recapitalisation operations. The team regularly acts on the lending side and boasts an impressive roster of clients, including a number of multinational banks and funds. Linklaters is additionally well versed in transactions involving NPLs and the acquisition of distressed assets. Its lawyers are also able to leverage its extensive international network to advise on matters crossing multiple jurisdictions.
Work Highlights
- Linklaters assisted Banca Nazionale del Lavoro as the lenders with a restructuring agreement for the rescheduling of the financial indebtedness and changes to the capital structure of G. Schneider.
Notable Practitioners
Francesco Faldi is a well-regarded lawyer with an excellent reputation for his activity on debt restructuring mandates, in which he frequently assists creditors. He is also adept at dealing with composition with creditors procedures.
Ettore Consalvi is a well-regarded lawyer who often deals with debt restructuring transactions, on the side of both financial institutions and corporates.