Weil

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been a preeminent provider of legal services for over 90 years with approximately 1,100 lawyers across our global footprint. Weil's Asia-Pacific team focuses on complex, high stakes matters, advising global and Asia-based clients on both domestic and cross-border matters across the entire region, including China, India, Japan, South Korea, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Weil is widely regarded as a global “restructuring powerhouse”, having invented much of what has become the “gold standard” practice in the restructuring field, and has consistently stayed at the forefront of innovative restructuring. With more than 100 dedicated lawyers across the US, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, Weil has acted on many of the largest, most complex and important restructuring matters, and has played a pivotal role in defining restructuring and insolvency by offering creative, practical and thoughtful solutions to our clients.

Our Asia Restructuring team is known for its broad experience and expertise advising a multitude of clients across the restructuring and insolvency spectrum. Our Asia Restructuring team is equally conversant in both debtor and creditor-side mandates, and is highly experienced advising clients in relation to both contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. This diverse range of expertise encompasses consensual restructuring (transactional restructuring), contested restructuring (restructuring litigation), creditor enforcement and credit litigation, insolvency advisory, insolvency litigation, corporate malfeasance litigation, fraud and asset-tracing and recovery, distressed secondary debt trading and distressed M&A.

By combining our contentious and non-contentious expertise with a clear focus on effective stakeholder management to achieve positive outcomes, we are able to strategise and tailor creative solutions to the most complex problems to help our clients manage distressed assets in the most challenging and time-sensitive situations.

Alvarez & Marsal

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 10,000 people across six 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 is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. We offer a comprehensive product suite through our Corporate Bank, Private Bank, Investment Bank, and Asset Management.

The Investment Bank at Deutsche Bank provides strategic advice to corporate and institutional clients, focusing on the bank’s traditional strengths in financing, advisory, fixed income, and currencies, together with a focused equity capital markets business. This division drives Deutsche Bank's growth strategy with innovative solutions and global reach.

As the Global Hausbank, we are committed to expanding our position and providing unparalleled financial services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals.

Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Investment Group (SIG) is the market-leading illiquid, distressed and special situations credit franchise in Asia Pacific, established for over 20 years.

SIG has a proven track record of investing and trading in illiquid and distressed loans, corporate bonds and trade claims. SIG is also a provider of liquidity and capital solutions for special situations with an ability to structure complex transactions and invest in size with balance sheet. We have a long history of working with partners to source risk, invest, drive outcomes and effect profitable exits from transactions.

We are a team of 20+ specialists primarily based in Hong Kong with extensive experience across trading, client coverage and distribution, origination, research, structuring and execution.

For over 150 years, we have grown with Asia Pacific, embracing change, helping drive progress. But one thing has never changed: our dedication to our clients. Combining deep local expertise across the region with the strength of our global network, we connect corporate, investment and wealth solutions that finance growth, manage risk and unlock opportunity — today and for the future.

Discover more about how Deutsche Bank can be your strategic financial partner at www.db.com

FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. With more than 8,300 employees located in 34 countries and territories, FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities. 

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham & Watkins advises the businesses and institutions that power the global economy. We leverage the firm's top-tier strength in Asia, the US, Europe, and the Middle East to seamlessly advise market participants on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including front-end direct lending and leveraged finance, corporate reorganizations, restructurings and insolvencies, distressed investing and special situations, PIPE transactions, preferred equity and convertible debt, asset-backed securitisations and financings, infrastructure financings, project finance, buyouts, carve-outs, asset M&A, activist transactions, venture capital investments and capital raising. With a comprehensive view across different investment strategies, Latham’s lawyers advise clients on all aspects of their business in deploying private capital, from fund formation, fundraising, and regulatory matters to analyzing, structuring, and executing transactions and portfolio management.

Latham advises the broadest range of market participants across the full spectrum of bespoke financing solutions. We bring exceptional insight to hybrid instrument transactions, having advised on countless market-leading hybrid deals to fill the gaps in capital structures between senior debt and control equity, and to finance acquisitions, growth, dividend recaps, fund liquidity solutions, and rescue financings.

We have been at the forefront of the evolution of the private credit markets. With our breadth of experience and deep investor relationships across the largest direct lenders can rely on our comprehensive understanding of the market and proven track record in closing transactions with cutting-edge terms.

We are one of very few firms with a market-leading restructuring and insolvency practice in Asia and globally. As a firm, Latham has assisted hundreds of banks, hedge funds, private equity sponsors, borrowers and issuers in cross-border restructurings and enabled them to navigate complicated situations and come out better off at the other end of the transaction. In order to deliver a successful restructuring, the firm draws on its extensive legal experience in global finance and restructuring transactions, and resources from across our many offices worldwide. We are also known for our ability to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions to help our clients achieve their goals.