Restructuring and insolvency

Dentons

Dentons is lauded as ‘meticulous and highly skilled in the bankruptcy and restructuring industry’. This offering includes assistance with insolvency-related disputes, and its client base encompasses financial institutions as well as companies from the infrastructure, automotive and transportation, manufacturing and energy, retail, FMCG, agriculture and TMT industries. With an international client base, the team is very well placed to advise clients on their cross-border mandates. Department leader and co-managing partner Anna Pukszto also heads up the litigation and arbitration team, and she is experienced in distressed asset acquisitions. Tomasz Trocki is another key name as lead of the firm’s consensual restructuring practice. In team news, Stanisław Sołtysik was promoted to the partnership in April 2024.

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‘Dentons is a law firm that is active in the restructuring and insolvency industry, offering clients a rich mosaic of opportunities in the field of actions aimed at opening restructuring and legal proceedings, as well as legal strategies aimed at protecting the interests of both the debtor and creditors.'
'Dentons offers restructuring and bankruptcy assistance to entrepreneurs from a wide range of industries, such as natural resources and technology. Dentons is characterised by both professionalism and passion in acting and identifying legal problems that will always find the right method of solution.’
‘Dentons' lawyers are meticulous and highly skilled in the bankruptcy and restructuring industry. They have an individual approach to each client and each case, providing access to the latest knowledge and proven solutions that enable quick and reliable action.'
'Dentons' lawyers draw on extensive experience in providing practical guidance in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings by using innovative negotiation tactics that protect the interests of both the debtor and creditors.’
‘Stanisław Sołtysik - full professionalism, creativity, punctuality and personal culture, decisiveness in action.'

Key clients

BNP Paribas
Fives FCB
Generali Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń
GX Technology
Haitong Bank
HSBC
ING Bank
mBank
Millennium Bank
PKO Bank Polski
Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń
Santander
Uniqa

Work highlights

Advised a leading global TMT company on the restructuring of its intra-group claims towards its Polish subsidiary amounting to approximately EUR 2bn, resulting from a number of loans granted in previous years and the liquidation of the subsidiary.
Advised seven lenders and a facility agent, which provided the financing to two companies in connection with a leading shopping mall in Warsaw, on expedited composition proceedings opened for the borrowers.
Advised a leading company in the retail sector on its debt restructuring, including assisting in the development of its strategy for the restructuring proceedings and navigating the complex negotiations with the lenders who provided existing financing to the client under various bilateral agreements.

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