Overview
Shearman & Sterling’s Special Situations and Capital Solutions team of partners works across practice groups to develop innovative solutions to capital structure and other complex problems. Each member of our special situations interdisciplinary team—including Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance and Direct Lending, Restructuring, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax—has the expertise to address the issues that arise in this unique context and spends a substantial amount of their time working with many of the world’s leading hedge funds, private equity funds, direct lenders, CLOs and other institutional investors.
This dedicated special situations team provides our clients with solutions supported by our legal expertise in many jurisdictions where we practice across the globe, including financial centers of the U.S., Europe and Asia. Our global footprint enables us to serve clients worldwide and uniquely positions us to handle cross-border issues.
Examples of the types of representations that benefit from our approach to special situations include:
Our team analyzes the nuances of complex credit structures to help our clients structure creative solutions. Clients benefit from our global expertise and 360-degree approach, which ensures that our clients have a command of the legal rights that drive each special situation. We identify opportunities to enhance securities and other investments and help our clients maximize recoveries, protect their interests and make informed investment decisions.
Capital solutions often involve multiple investors with differing and sometimes conflicting interests. Our team advises clients on litigation risks and, where needed, provides full-service litigation and trial advocacy services to resolve disputes arising in the context of a special situation or capital solution transactions.
The special situations team is led by a partner that is a former investment banker and hedge fund professional and includes members of our Financial Restructuring & Insolvency, Leveraged Finance, Capital Markets, M&A, Tax and Litigation practices.