Insolvency and Restructuring

Today's globalised marketplace puts companies under intense pressure. Businesses need to manage technological change, heightened competition and economic forces while trying to deal with internal issues - day to day management and problems in the business structure or model.

Sometimes these pressures become impossible and a well-managed insolvency is the only solution. At other times, high quality restructuring advice can turn around a business.

At DLA Phillips Fox we have teams of highly experienced lawyers who can help in both situations. Our insolvency practitioners have a proven commercial focus and provide frank advice in search of the best outcome – whether you’re a creditor, lender, company director or business owner.

The DLA Phillips Fox business support and restructuring team is multi-skilled, offering you business expertise in areas such as the negotiation, design and implementation of a business restructure, and advice on issues ranging from succession planning and mergers to site closures and redundancies.

We offer tailored advice on:

  • Insolvency.
  • Receivership.
  • Voluntary administrations.
  • Deeds of company arrangements.
  • Provisional and court liquidations.
  • Bankruptcies and debt arrangements.
  • Litigation and dispute resolution.
  • Business restructuring.
  • Takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, MBOs.
  • Regulation.
  • Employment law.
  • Business and tax structures.
  • Underperformance and remedial strategies.

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Key Contacts
Joseph DeRuvo

Partner

Adelaide

Joseph DeRuvo
Scott McDonald

Partner

Sydney

Scott McDonald
Stephen Sawer

Partner

Melbourne

Stephen Sawer
 
 

This information is intended as a first point of reference and should not be relied on as professional legal advice.

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