Insolvency and Restructuring

Kellerhals Carrard has a team of insolvency law specialists who play a leading role in the insolvency and restructuring of companies in Switzerland. We advise management bodies with regard to the measures to be taken in the event of impending insolvency, we represent financial creditors, debtors and companies that acquire assets from financially stricken companies and act as extraordinary receivers.

We are supported here by our colleagues at Kellerhals Carrard in other areas, such as competition law, corporate law, real estate law, and tax law. We advise on restructuring projects with the aim of finding innovative solutions that are beneficial to all parties involved and in some cases are able to avoid insolvency proceedings. We are also involved in national and international foreclosure as well as in formal bankruptcy and composition proceedings.

• Representing foreign financial and holding companies in major Swiss insolvency proceedings
• Liquidation of an insolvent securities dealer and a bank that operates without the authorization of FINMA
• Liquidation of a branch of a foreign bank
• Advising the liquidators of the holding company of an insolvent international investment bank on their assets located in Switzerland
• Representing management bodies in liability proceedings due to alleged delay in insolvency
• Preparing various legal opinions on national and international issues of insolvency law
• Drafting bankruptcy law for a foreign country
• Supporting foreign bankruptcy administrators in the recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings in Switzerland and repatriation of assets