Restructuring restructuring: Reforms to the UK restructuring and corporate governance regime

The government has announced that it will legislate to update the UK restructuring system and corporate governance regime relevant to companies in distress with the aim of ensuring that the UK’s insolvency system retains its preeminent status. The government has announced that it will legislate to update the UK restructuring system and corporate governance regime…

Leveraging your acquisition: The devil in the detail

In this articlet we look, from a borrower’s perspective, at 10 potential flashpoints with lenders that can arise when leveraging an acquisition. When borrowing to fund an acquisition, leveraged loans have long been an active and robust asset class given the available liquidity in the market and the returns such loans can generate for lenders…

Dealing with management leavers – 5 key issues

This is a topic fraught with complexity; legal (what is the impact of company and employment law?), financial and commercial (what is the loss/cost to the business?) and emotional (how are the management leavers in question behaving/going to behave, and how will other managers and employees react?). This month, we focus on a key post-acquisition…