Insolvency & Restructuring

Our Insolvency & Restructuring team offers clients a focused service tailored to their individual business needs. We assign specialists in key areas – including banking & financial services, corporate law, dispute resolution, employment, intellectual property, and property law – working together to deliver solutions across a wide range of insolvency issues and scenarios.

Expertise

We act for clients across the full spectrum of insolvency and restructuring matters. We advise insolvency practitioners, banks and other financial institutions, statutory bodies, and creditors. We work with businesses in financial difficulties along with directors and trustees.

Our team is trusted to deliver on high profile mandates and has long-established relationships with Ireland’s leading insolvency practitioners, accountancy firms, banks, and asset managers. We advise purchasers of loan portfolios from Irish financial institutions along with private equity distressed loan investment funds. Clients benefit from results-focused expertise in handling complex, high-volume enforcement actions efficiently and achieving optimum returns within tight timeframes. We offer extensive international expertise in cross-border insolvency and restructuring projects.

 

Services

  • Bankruptcy
  • Liquidation
  • Receivership
  • Examinership
  • SCARP (Small Company Administrative Rescue Process)
  • Cross border Insolvencies
  • Individual and Company Voluntary schemes of arrangements
  • Corporate Restructuring including equity swaps, hive downs, assignment of debt etc
  • Directors disqualification proceedings, liabilities and responsibilities
  • Wrongful or fraudulent trading claims against former directors
  • Antecedent transactions
  • Asset and debt recovery
  • Retention of title claims
  • Regulatory authority liaison
  • Business turnaround
  • Debt recovery
  • Dispute resolution
  • Alternative dispute resolution
‘Excellent restructuring team. Good overall firm with a size that fits with our requirements.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Joe O'Malley is highly regarded for his hands-on approach and exceptional dedication to his clients. His personal touch is evident in every case, as he takes the time to truly understand his clients' needs and craft bespoke strategies that deliver results.'
Legal 500 2025
'Cian Clinch understood the underlying ethos of our business and was guided by it when speaking to vendors on our behalf, showing the ability to seek compromise or deal with issues firmly but respectfully as needed.’
Legal 500 2025
'Joe O'Malley leads the team and makes a very valuable contribution.’
Legal 500 2025
‘We have mostly worked with Cian Clinch who is a stand-out partner. We very much valued his flexibility and availability when needed at short notice.'
Legal 500 2025
‘Cian Clinch has been excellent. Always available and level headed with a great strategic approach to complex litigation.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Partner involvement and availability, including outside working hours, multidisciplinary team approach, quality of advice, very good turnaround time.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Jackie Buckley has been an excellent negotiator who prioritised my work and achieved excellent outcomes.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Jeremy Erwin and Joe O'Malley are both excellent lawyers - always responsive with good legal and commercial advice.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Highly responsive and ability to clearly articulate issues to non lawyers and provide potential and commercially considered solutions when issues arise’
Legal 500 2025
‘Highly experienced in terms of insolvency and property litigation.'
Legal 500 2025
‘Jackie Buckley is a very knowledgable client, a focused lawyer with a forensic eye for detail.’
Legal 500 2025
'Jeremy is very practical and thorough, with quick turnaround times and high quality.'
Chambers and Partners 2025
'He is very bright, reads everything and is incredibly hard-working. He's a fantastic solicitor. Joe is very hands-on.'
Chambers and Partners 2025
'Jackie always responds in a timely manner with clear and comprehensive advice.'
Chambers and Partners 2025
'Jeremy Erwin, partner in the commercial litigation department, is a standout individual. He is incredibly knowledgeable and extremely pragmatic. He is an excellent soundboard, very approachable and always goes out of his way to be available and goes above and beyond to assist. He has an amazing knack of simplifying complicated issues.’
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
'Jeremy Erwin is also highly regarded. He is tenacious and diligent, always working for the client.’
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
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