Restructuring and Insolvency

Experience & Expertise

We advise and represent clients in restructuring and bankruptcy matters. We act as litigators in the Swiss courts, and as bankruptcy administrators.
 

Broad Experience

We advise and assist our clients inter alia in the following areas:

  • All aspects of debt enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency law;
  • Restructuring and turnover of a company;
  • Acquisition of a distressed business;
  • Representation of creditors during the moratorium granted to an insolvent debtor, as well as in composition and bankruptcy proceedings;
  • Preparation, filing and enforcement of creditors' claims in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings;
  • Monitoring and administration of a company under moratorium or in composition proceedings;
  • Monitoring, administration and liquidation of insolvent banks and securities dealers;
  • Freezing orders and other provisional measures and enforcement of such foreign decisions;
  • Recognition of foreign insolvency decrees and representation of foreign bankruptcy trustees / receivers in Switzerland; enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards;
  • Realization of pledged and seized assets;
  • Special administration of the estate of a bankrupt company;
  • Debt collection.

 

Complex Cross-border Matters

Our firm has the know-how and experience to take on the most complex insolvency matters, including those with an international dimension, such as the enforcement of foreign insolvency proceedings in Switzerland.

Contacts

Vincent Jeanneret
Partner
Geneva

Alexander von Ziegler
Partner
Zurich