Strategically Positioned to Navigate Distress, Drive Opportunity
Saul Ewing’s Distressed Transactions practice provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary solutions for clients such as businesses, investors or stakeholders navigating market distress and economic uncertainty. Our team performs due diligence and risk management assessments to proactively assist clients in identifying debt and liability issues in mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions. We also negotiate debt and equity solutions for a wide range of distressed transactions.
We represent buyers, sellers, investors, private equity firms and other parties across numerous industries. Our team brings together attorneys experienced in bankruptcy and restructuring, real estate, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and corporate finance to create tailored strategies that help maximize value and mitigate risk for the specific investment, facts and laws under review. Whether the situation involves underperforming business units, long-term liabilities or complex debt issues, our team provides a holistic approach from pre-deal strategy to deal execution to post-deal integration.
We provide comprehensive services in the following areas:
- Acquisitions and dispositions of distressed businesses
- Divestitures and strategic asset purchases
- Acquisitions and sales of distressed real estate assets and debt
- Section 363 sales and bankruptcy auctions
- Chapter 11 reorganizations
- Receiverships and assignments for the benefit of creditors
- Turnarounds and workouts
- Restructurings, refinancings and recapitalizations
- Insolvency and restructuring strategy in and out of court
- Debtor in possession financing
- Distressed company financing
- Capital infusions
- Debt-for-equity swaps
- Insurance, indemnities and creative debt solutions
