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Combining the knowledge of local laws and cultures with a global reach is just one of the ways Baker & McKenzie separates itself from other firms. Our genuinely global perspective allows us to operate without boundaries around the world, in every jurisdiction that is important to your business.

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Financial Restructuring, Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy in North America

Our Financial Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights, & Bankruptcy Practice Group stretches across the United States and around the globe. Our lawyers practicing in this area have represented a full range of parties in bankruptcy, debtor/creditor disputes and insolvency-related proceedings on a national, regional and international basis.

Our clients include institutional and trade creditors, bondholders, debtors, committees, acquirers, lenders, indenture trustees, investors, landlords, officers, directors, licensors and licensees, franchisors and franchisees, and others in nearly every major industry. We have represented and counseled these clients in:

  • Out-of-court workouts and restructurings
  • Prepackaged Chapter 11 filings
  • Chapter 11 reorganizations
  • Acquisition of assets in bankruptcy and Chapter 11 reorganization cases
  • Creditors’ rights and bankruptcy-related litigation including preference and fraudulent conveyance proceedings
  • Chapter 15 and Section 304 cases ancillary to foreign proceedings
  • Preparing bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law analyses for opinion letters
  • Analyzing potential creditors’ rights/bankruptcy implications of proposed deal structures

We are a full-service international business law firm with knowledge and experience in many different areas of the law. With our Global Banking, Finance & Major Projects Practice and Corporate & Securities Group (which include banking, mergers & acquisitions, environmental, insurance, securitization, natural resources, municipal finance and project finance), we have the resources and ability to handle complex restructurings or reorganizations, multinational distressed asset acquisitions and dispositions, creditors’ rights litigation and finance transactions.

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Review of 2012 covering: anti-doping in sport; social media (freedom of expression/ protection from abuse); equality impact assessments; the Defamation Bill; public vs private enforcement of competition law and proposals to modernise EU procurement law.
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We share an uncompromising commitment to excellence, which explains why more of our lawyers are included as leading lawyers in the Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Best Lawyers than any other Global 20 law firm.

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We are passionately global — it's in our DNA.

We started with a vision of going global and were in eight countries before our 10th anniversary. Today we have 73 offices in 46 countries -- including the emerging markets so important to the growth of your business.

We offer world-class career opportunities around the globe, while our entrepreneurial culture makes Baker & McKenzie a unique place to develop professionally.

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