A restructuring lawyer, provides legal advice and representation to clients facing financial distress, including both debtors and creditors. Likewise, a restructuring lawyer educates funds and PE firms in workouts and/or restructuring schemes to preserve value through recovery or enforcement, as well as to mitigate impacts when value is closed to 'zero'. The role encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters, such as negotiating debt repayment plans, restructuring plans, workout schemes, driving recovery plans and handling fully-fledged insolvency processes and liquidations/winding-up processes.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Advising Clients: Providing legal counsel to clients on restructuring options, including debt refinancing, debt rescheduling, restructuring plans, workouts, and/or formal insolvency procedures.
- Negotiating and Drafting Restructuring Plans: Negotiating with debtor/creditors to agree on new repayment terms and drafting legal documents like restructuring plans. Likewise, a restructuring lawyer shall be ready to challenge restructuring plans when advising creditors/equity, or otherwise providing legal arguments to the Court when representing companies/groups and the plan devised is challenged.
- Insolvency Litigation: Handling legal disputes related to restructuring and insolvency, including enforcing lender's securities, in and out-of-court, and navigating complex legal proceedings.
- Debt market: Handling transactions and delivering advice as regards secondary markets and securitization, focusing on NPLs primary or secondary market deals (whether representing sellers or buyers, in the shape of NPL/REOs portfolios or 'single names' transactions)
- Market Research and Opportunity Identification: Identifying potential restructuring/distress opportunities and developing strategies for clients to take advantage of them.
- Client Communication and Relationship Management: Maintaining strong client relationships, communicating complex legal concepts clearly, and collaborating with other legal and advisory teams.
About you
- Have at least 9-10 years of experience in the areas mentioned before.
- English and Spanish advanced level
- Commercially oriented, budget-wise, client-focused and ability to surpass expectations.
- Ability to analyze complex legal and financial information and identify potential solutions in a clear, straight-forward, simple fashion, producing deliverables timely.
- Able to handle multiple priorities, working to sometimes conflicting timescales in a fast-paced and challenging environment
- Able to build trust and rapport to develop effective relationships, internally and externally
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We're a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes.
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