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Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Practice Area: Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency [Corporate Services]

Practice Area's Profile:	The Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Restructuring and Insolvency Team provides a comprehensive service on all aspects of corporate insolvency, personal insolvency, and corporate restructuring. The team act in many high profile mandates, as well as a large number of informal restructurings and asset-swelling litigation for banks and receivers.
Services:	Advising directors and other stakeholders of financially distressed companies on insolvency risk, corporate recovery/rescue options and directors duties Restructuring negotiation and implementation, including schemes of arrangement (both informal and formal Court based schemes) taking formal enforcement action on behalf of secured creditors Advising insolvency practitioner office-holders and other stakeholders on all aspects of receiverships, liquidations and examinerships Advising equity investors and acquisition parties investing in distressed companies and businesses Providing advice in relation to solvent group reorganisations and simplifications by way of members voluntary winding up or otherwise insolvency investigations, litigation and dispute resolution Advising financial institutions and individual debtors in relation to personal insolvency issues including the three new out of court debt solutions provided for in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 Assisting overseas insolvency office-holders and trustees to obtain relief from the Irish courts

Practice Area's Profile:

The Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Restructuring and Insolvency Team provides a comprehensive service on all aspects of corporate insolvency, personal insolvency, and corporate restructuring.

The team act in many high profile mandates, as well as a large number of informal restructurings and asset-swelling litigation for banks and receivers.

Services:

Advising directors and other stakeholders of financially distressed companies on insolvency risk, corporate recovery/rescue options and directors duties
Restructuring negotiation and implementation, including schemes of arrangement (both informal and formal Court based schemes) taking formal enforcement action on behalf of secured creditors
Advising insolvency practitioner office-holders and other stakeholders on all aspects of receiverships, liquidations and examinerships
Advising equity investors and acquisition parties investing in distressed companies and businesses
Providing advice in relation to solvent group reorganisations and simplifications by way of members voluntary winding up or otherwise insolvency investigations, litigation and dispute resolution
Advising financial institutions and individual debtors in relation to personal insolvency issues including the three new out of court debt solutions provided for in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012
Assisting overseas insolvency office-holders and trustees to obtain relief from the Irish courts

Advisers

Fitzgerald, John

Firm:	Byrne Wallace Shields LLP
Position:	Partner, Head of Restructuring and Insolvency
Address:	88 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Phone:	+353 1 691 5617
Fax:	+353 1 691 5010
Email:	jfitzgerald@byrnewallaceshields.com
Personal URL:	https://byrnewallaceshields.com/about-us/our-team/john-fitzgerald.html