Milbank's restructuring team frequently assists with cross-border matters and cooperates closely with the firm's credit and capital markets practices. The team comprehensively advises clients on the creditor side, including banks, debt funds and mezzanine lenders, as well as shareholders, sponsors and borrowers on financial restructuring both in and out-of-court. Other core topics include debt equity swaps, distressed financing and M&A, liability management and all aspects of insolvency law. Mathias Eisen (financial restructuring, advice to creditors) and Barbara Mayer-Trautmann (restructuring, leveraged finance) jointly head the prcatice.
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- 'The Milbank team is characterized by the fact that they keep an eye on all issues and are able to take them into account holistically and advise accordingly. The technical know-how and timely delivery are outstanding. Also extremely strong in implementation.'
- 'Mathias Eisen is very reliable and economically minded.'
- 'Mathias Eisen gave us very good advice in terms of quality. He has a high level of flexibility and excellent problem-solving skills. His eye for the whole thing is also remarkable and draws very good cross-connections. He has shown an extremely high level of commitment and commitment.'
- 'Good and very extensive team. Very good support in all phases of the process.'
- 'Mathias Eisen and Special Counsel Robert Kastl combine extensive experience with deep specialist knowledge and a strong economic perspective.'
Key clients
- Apollo
- Capital 4
- Carlyle
- JP Morgan
- Pemberton
- PIMCO
- Signal Capital Partners
- UniCredit Bank AG
- DZ Bank
- Whitefort
- Indaba
- CQS
- Diameter
- Rothschild
- Fidelity/FMR
Work highlights
- Advising the lenders of the Schur Flexibles Group on the lender-led financial restructuring of the Schur Flexibles Group.
- Advising the ad hoc committee of creditors of €200 million convertible bonds and €300 million unsecured corporate bonds on the financial restructuring of Corestate Capital Holding SA, which included a debt equity swap, the collateralization and maturity extension of the existing bonds and the issuance of new super senior notes.
- Advising the steering committee of the majority of Adler Group SA's bondholders on the comprehensive restructuring of all of Adler Group SA's bonds through a restructuring plan.
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Practice head
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Mathias Eisen, Barbara Mayer-Trautmann