Stephenson Harwood
Under the leadership of Alexandre Koenig, who was promoted to partner in May 2023, the restructuring and insolvency practice at Stephenson Harwood closely collaborates with all departments in the Paris office. It brings together specialists in distressed company law and is backed by experts in financing, corporate law, litigation, and employment law. This multidisciplinary approach ensures smooth handling of complex cases, helping clients prevent and resolve disputes related to corporate challenges and insolvency proceedings. The practice’s versatility allows them to tackle both high-stakes, large-scale mandates and mid-cap cases, both domestically and internationally, with support from the firm’s global practice.
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Testimonials
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‘The team is very competent and responsive. Alexandre Koenig uses creativity to achieve client goals. He is also flexible and knows how to adapt to the client's budget and constraints.'
‘The team led by Alexandre Koenig is of very high quality. They were efficient, proactive, very available and gave us very good advice throughout the process of responding to our offer to buy out a company in collective proceedings. They have done remarkable work in building a relationship of trust with all the stakeholders in the file.'
‘We worked directly with Alexandre Koenig and his team. Alexandre managed our file and our response with great intelligence and personal investment. He is diplomatic, knows how to find the key success factors and highlight them.'
‘A team that knows how to work in a network and has great expertise and experience.'
‘Extremely responsive and creative team, able to work alongside French or foreign clients and effective in presenting the French particularities of takeovers of companies in difficulty in France.'
‘Alexandre Koenig is a stand-out expert who adds value beyond legal advice. He is able to achieve results through this detailed knowledge of the intricacies of the law and his network together with his charming, disarming manner and ability to engineer innovative solutions. ’
‘The team is distinguished by its in-depth expertise in specific areas of law, which allows it to provide high quality legal advice in these areas. The lawyers on the team work closely with each other, which promotes a continuous exchange of ideas and knowledge, beneficial to clients.'
‘Alexandre Koenig's remarkable performance in terms of legal advice, the quality of his drafting of documents, as well as his ability to represent our interests in an exemplary manner are aspects which deserve to be praised.'
Key clients
- Circet
- Transportation Partners
- iWire
- Teak Capital
- Foliateam
- Scopelec Energies Services
- ILCI Business School
Work highlights
- Advising Circet as part of its takeover of most of the activities of the Scopelec Group, the largest cooperative group in France, out of French receivership proceedings, in one of the largest judicial restructuring deals of 2022/2023 in France.
- Advising Transportation Partners in connection with the restructuring of the Indonesian airline group Lion Air, which involved 200 aircraft and 50 lessor groups in the context of the insolvency proceedings of multiple French SPVs dedicated to the management of the Lion Air Group’s aircraft fleet.
- Advising Teak Capital, a privately held industrial investment portfolio in the Asia Pacific and LATAM regions, in the context of the development of its European and French development strategies, notably through its bid to take over the business of French industrial company CHAINES ET ROUES DENTEES RAFER out of French receivership proceedings.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Alexandre Koenig