Loschelder‘s insolvency and restructuring practice is regularly instructed by national and international companies, investors, creditors, management consultancies and shareholders and primarily assists medium-sized companies; recent instructions pertain to the real estate and manufacturing sectors. The team is experienced in restructuring and reorganisation measures and also covers distressed transactions and insolvency law matters. The expertise of practice head Nils Derksen correspond with these competencies, he places an additional focus on M&A-related reorganisation matters.
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- 'The team is small but of high quality. Due to the cost structure at Loschelder, a cheaper tariff is offered, but at the same time it is in no way inferior to the quality of advice offered by larger units.'
- 'Nils Derksen is a committed advisor with extremely high quality.'
Work highlights
- Advice on insolvency and restructuring law to the Chief Restructuring Officer of various companies in a medium-sized family business regarding liability risks, scenario review, termination agreement with key contractual partner Nordex, etc. The advice also includes the insolvency-proof structuring of an intra-group carve-out and the refinancing of a syndicated loan in the amount of approximately €70 million .
- Advising and examining a trustee regarding any insolvency avoidance claims as well as corporate law claims in connection with restructurings that the insolvent debtor carried out before the insolvency with a total volume of around €100 million.
- Distressed M&A advice to an insolvency administrator regarding completed transactions, realization of collateral and settlement of domestic and foreign investments (most recently liquidation of various US subsidiaries). In connection with the insolvency administrator's liability claims against the former board members (around €700 million), the advice also includes the provision of various data sets.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nils Derksen