Restructuring & Insolvency

Norton White advises businesses a broad range of insolvency legal issues including on how best to address concerns with suppliers or customers suffering financial stress, or to minimise the risk and impact of financial distress.  Our focus is on helping businesses to develop legal robust solutions to insolvency issues and help businesses achieve their commercial outcomes in a highly pressured situation.

Norton White provides advice on a broad range of restructuring and insolvency related issues including:

  • Cross-border insolvency issues

  • Australian law issues in connection with US Chapter 11 re-organisations

  • Corporate distress and counterparty re-negotiations

  • Finance re-negotiation

  • Distressed sales and purchases

  • Exercising warehouseman and other liens

  • Unfair preference claims

  • Insolvency litigation

  • Director and officer duties

  • Disclosure obligations