Insolvency & Restructuring

The legal steps involved in securing our clients’ financial interests in restructuring, debt collection, bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings are often time-critical. The Insolvency & Restructuring team is able to offer high level “one stop shop” services for all restructuring and insolvency requirements of our clients within very short time frames.

We have a strong reputation in handling complex cross-border matters. Our Insolvency & Restructuring team comprises corporate and finance lawyers and specialists covering all procedural matters and insolvency related litigations. Depending on your needs and the relevant industry, we will join forces with our specialists from other areas such as tax, banking and financial market laws, as well as real estate and employment law.

Areas of expertise

Corporate restructuring and reorganisation
Spin-offs and de-mergers
Rescue companies
Moratorium and composition agreements
Bankruptcy proceedings
Debt enforcement proceedings
Recognition of foreign insolvency decrees
Representation of foreign insolvency administrators in Switzerland
Seizure of assets
Realisation of pledged assets
Actions against the schedule of claims
Claw back claims
Claims for director’s liability
Mandates as trustee, liquidator, member of a creditors’ committee

Team Leader

Sabina B. Schellenberg

Partner, Zurich

Mona Stephenson

Partner, Geneva/Lausanne

Team

“MLL Legal has a strongly experienced team”
Chambers and Partners Europe, Restructuring/Insolvency, 2024

Related to this Practice Area

Publications

03.10.2022

Rechtshilfeweiser Arrestvollzug durch ein Lead-Betreibungsamt

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ZZZ 2022 Nr. 59, S. 341 ff., Oktober 2022

Urs Boller

17.03.2021

Corporate and financial reorganisation: an overview

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International Law Office, 17 March 2021

18.12.2019

The New Swiss International Insolvency Law, International Corporate Rescue, Volume 16, Issue 6

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16.01.2019

Internationales Konkursrecht: Änderungen per 1. Januar 2019

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MLL News, Januar 2019

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