Debtwire Asia-Pacific Distressed Debt Forum

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M)

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems. With over 4,500 people across four continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what’s really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

EY

About EY
EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy, transaction and consulting services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

About EY Strategy and Transactions
EY Strategy and Transactions teams work with clients to navigate complexity by helping them to reimagine their eco-systems, reshape their portfolios and reinvent themselves for a better future. With global connectivity and scale, EY Strategy and Transactions teams help clients drive corporate, capital, transaction and turnaround strategies through to execution, supporting fast-track value creation in all types of market environments. EY Strategy and Transactions teams help support the flow of capital across borders and help bring new products and innovation to market. In doing so, EY Strategy and Transactions teams help clients to build a better working world by fostering long-term value. For more information please visit www.ey.com/StrategyandTransactions 

To know more about our restructuring services, visit: https://www.ey.com/en_in/strategy-transactions/leading-restructuring

Join the conversation on restructuring and turnaround: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10385927/

Khaitan & Co

Firm Overview:

Founded in 1911, Khaitan & Co is one of the oldest Indian law firms. It combines a rich heritage of over a hundred years with modern, cutting edge and solution-oriented legal practice and offers full service legal solutions to its domestic and international clients. The firm has a strength of 540+ fee earners, including 113 partners and directors across its four offices.

Main Areas of Practice:

The firm is one of India's most recognised full service law firms offering specialised advisory services to clients across all practice areas. The firm's Corporate/M&A practice and several other practice areas including banking and finance, capital markets, competition/ antitrust, dispute resolution, energy, infrastructure and resources, private clients, funds, hospitality, intellectual property, labour and employment laws, real estate, taxation, technology, media and telecom and white collar crime feature prominently in various leading international and Indian publications. The firm has received several awards and recognition in recent times for its work by various leading international rankings and publications, some of which include:

• Tier I Indian law firm – Corporate & M&A, Competition/Antitrust and Private Equity - Chambers Asia Pacific 2017
• Tier I Indian law firm – Corporate & M&A and Capital Markets - IFLR 1000 2017
• Tier I Indian law firm – Antitrust and Competition, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Investment Funds, Labour and Employment, Projects and Energy, Tax and White Collar Crime - Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017
• Law Firm of the year and M&A Law firm of the year – IDEX Legal awards 2017
• Law Firm of the year - Indian Business Law Journal – Indian Law Firm awards 2016
• Firm of the year – India, The Asian Lawyer Emerging markets awards 2016

Over the years the firm has attracted and retained some of the best legal talent in India to provide the high-quality legal counsel expected from it. The strategic hiring of partners has resulted in the addition of new practice areas, strengthening of the existing practice areas and also bringing in the best international practices.

Clients:

The firm’s clients include business and financial enterprises, large business houses, banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, government bodies, educational and charitable trusts, cultural institutions, individuals, and estates and trusts from India and overseas.

International:

Khaitan & Co is an independent law firm and routinely works with several leading law firms internationally on inbound and outbound assignments across various jurisdictions on multiple transactions across all its practice areas.

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is a leading global law with more than 2,700 lawyers in 29 offices. They are located in 14 countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Latham has more than 60 international practice groups and industry teams within the corporate, environmental, finance, litigation and tax departments. The firm’s global platform is comprised of a single, integrated partnership focused on providing the most collaborative approach to client service. Its lawyers are well versed and experienced in advising clients on high-profile and enterprise-transforming matters.

Latham has extensive knowledge of all debt products covering all types of loans and bonds, which combined with our restructuring experience, enables us to provide advice on highly complex special situations for private and publicly listed companies. Our jurisdictional presence in the areas of high yield and restructuring reaches from Asia to the US via London and the Middle East with a global footprint of more than 180 restructuring lawyers - a combination of scope and market penetration few firms can match.

Clayton Utz

With over 165 partners and over 1,600 employees across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin and Perth, we provide the full spectrum of legal services for some of Australia's biggest and most successful companies.

Our strength lies not only in the range of skills and depth of expertise held by our individual lawyers, but also in our ability to work together effectively as a full service, national team and our ability to bring together teams of lawyers with the right mix of legal and commercial skills to match the needs of our clients.

KordaMentha

KordaMentha is an advisory firm offeringspecialist restructuring, corporate, forensic, investment and real estateservices. 

With unmatched experience in formalinsolvency, turnaround solutions, strategic diagnostic reviews, businessviability and pre-lending reviews, clients rely on us to provide stability andcertainty when it matters most. We work with company directors, lenders,shareholders, employees and other creditors to solve their biggest issues atthe most critical times. Looking beyond the numbers, we apply bold and creativesolutions to achieve the best results for all stakeholders.

Our Restructuring group has been entrustedwith many of Asia-Pacific’s largest and most complex corporate restructures, includingVirgin Australia, Network Ten, Arrium, Tassal, Gunns, Timbercorp, Forge, SydneyCross City Tunnel, Redbank and Ansett Australia, and the recent restructures ofretailers Seafolly and Tigerlily.