Our Corporate Restructuring team provides a comprehensive service on all aspects of insolvency, corporate recovery, and personal bankruptcy, security, title due diligence, and loan sales – both portfolio and bilateral. Our teams are made up of restructuring and insolvency experts and lawyers from our banking and finance, corporate, regulatory, employment, real estate, and litigation groups.

Experience

By drawing on a depth of extensive and relevant expertise from within the firm, we can provide appropriate multi-dimensional advice to our clients on the increasingly challenging and technically complex areas of insolvency and restructuring.

Our Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency team advises on:

  • Restructuring and reorganisation of businesses
  • Debt and equity restructuring
  • Security and title due diligence and loan sales – both portfolio and bilateral
  • Intercreditor arrangements and agreements
  • Financial restructuring
  • Disqualification of directors
  • Insolvency procedures – scheme of the arrangement, examinership, receivership, and personal bankruptcy
  • Liquidations
  • Creditors, voluntary liquidation, members’ voluntary liquidation, court liquidation
  • Distressed debt
  • Advising directors, shareholders, and creditors of entities in difficulties

Recent

Our Corporate Restructuring team has acted for NAMA, BOI, AIB, UB, and Loan Star on a series of transactions in the NPL space acting on:

  • Acquisition of Project Evergreen by Loan Star
  • Bilateral loan sales on behalf of UB and BOI
  • NAMA in the context of a significant bilateral loan sale that pivoted into a high-profile real estate asset sale.

Our Corporate Restructuring team has extensive experience in varying/amending and extending loan facilities for AIBFSG, BOI, UB, and Castlehaven both in solvent and distressed scenarios.

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John Fitzgerald brings measure at a very senior level, to right-size client expectations, allay fears and ensure matters progress in the right direction at the right pace."

Legal 500, 2025

John Fitzgerald leads this group. I found him to be an expert in his field, friendly, approachable, extremely collaborative and most of all hard working and conscientious. John brings a sense of calm to stressful situations by grasping the key issues quickly, and distilling problems into workable solutions with a minimum of fuss.”

Leading Individual, Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring - Legal 500, 2025

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