Sabine Vorwerk
LinklatersLinklaters offers excellent international capacities and focuses on financial and operational restructuring as well as insolvency law matters and distressed M&A. The traditional focus is on advising players from the banking sector, although the team has also recently been instructed by companies from the tourism, steel, shipbuilding, retail, energy and automotive sectors. Sabine Vorwerk, who is experienced in advising creditors, heads the practice. Since publication, former co-head Sven Schelo has left the firm.
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- 'The team think and work far-sightedly and comprehensively beyond the specific problem presented and proactively recognize the client's overall interests.'
Work highlights
- Advising Alvarez & Marsal in its role as provisional liquidator in the judicial liquidation process of the assets of the Genting Group (provisional liquidation under Bermuda law).
- Advising Uniper on the federal rescue package worth more than €30 billion in state support via equity measures as well as advising on all state aid and public law aspects of the stabilization and rescue package, which was coordinated and negotiated with the majority shareholder Fortum and the Federal Republic of Germany and should be further coordinated with the European Commission.
- Advising an international logistics company, among other things, in connection with the restructuring and reorganization financing of various companies and representation in connection with appeal proceedings and questions of European insolvency law in connection with the insolvency of a shoe manufacturer.
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Sabine Vorwerk