Debtwire Restructuring Forum Miami 2026
Where the restructuring community meets every December
The US restructuring market is active, complex, and moving fast. Macroeconomic pressure, evolving deal structures, and cross-border complexity are keeping the whole community busy.
Debtwire Restructuring Forum Miami brings together 500+ lawyers, investors, and advisers in Miami each December for a day of panels and conversation that matter. Hear from the people doing the deals on what is shaping the market. Leave with a clearer view of what the year ahead holds and the relationships to navigate it.
Reasons to attend
The Speakers
The Network
The City
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NetworkingConnect in person with the restructuring community
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ReplaysUnlimited on-demand recordings available after the event
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HospitalityEnjoy all meals, refreshments, and evening receptions included
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CommunityJoin a global network of private credit professionals year-round
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In Room AccessAttend every session in-person
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connect_without_contact
NetworkingConnect in person with the restructuring community
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replay
ReplaysUnlimited on-demand recordings available after the event
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local_dining
HospitalityEnjoy all meals, refreshments, and evening receptions included
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CommunityJoin a global network of private credit professionals year-round
Sponsors
A&G Real Estate Partners
https://www.agrep.com/A&G Real Estate Partners is a team of commercial real estate experts that always derives the highest possible value for its clients’ real estate assets and leases. Its strategic negotiators, brand-protectors and relationship-builders bring a proven track record in portfolio-optimization, real estate sales, due diligence, valuations, and strategic growth consulting in virtually every real estate sector. Known for its integrity, technology, and marketing prowess, A&G has advised the nation’s leading brands in both healthy and distressed situations. Since 2012, the firm has sold over $13 billion in properties and leases and negotiated over $12 billion in rent-reduction and occupancy-cost savings for its clients. A&G is headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country. For more information, visit: www.agrep.com.
Akin Gump
https://www.akingump.com/enAkin is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Our financial restructuring practice is widely recognized as a powerhouse, advising on many of the most complex, high-profile restructurings in the world. With a diverse client base that spans ad hoc groups, debtors, official and informal creditors’ committees and institutional investors, our team has earned its place as a go-to firm for restructuring matters, liability management issues and intricate special situations that demand the world’s best legal talent.
AlixPartners
https://www.alixpartners.com/what-we-do/turnaround-restructuring/AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
Cleary Gottlieb
https://www.clearygottlieb.com/With over 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries, Cleary Gottlieb works across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. Clients know Cleary Gottlieb for our signature approach to serving their needs with a wide range of integrated capabilities in capital solutions & private credit, debt finance, restructuring, structured finance, capital markets, bank regulatory, M&A, antitrust, corporate governance, enforcement, litigation, tax, and more.
Our Capital Solutions and Private Credit practice delivers tailored financing strategies to all market participants, including private credit funds, specialty finance companies, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, corporates, and back-leverage providers.
We handle all transaction types across the spectrum, from mid-market and large cap deals to direct lending, hybrid capital, and opportunistic credit opportunities. We support clients throughout the complete business lifecycle, from start-up to crossover, IPO and beyond, including PIPEs and public offerings. Our inter-disciplinary team guides clients through the complete range of private credit solutions, including unitranche/senior direct lending; opportunistic & hybrid (junior capital, mezz, pref, converts, warrants); investment grade private credit (structured JV equity); LMEs and workouts; rescue financing; ABL facilities; asset-backed (including infrastructure and real estate); fund formation; NAV facilities; and subscription lines.
DLA Piper
https://www.dlapiper.comDLA Piper is one of the largest global law firms with lawyers located in more than 40 countries/90 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific including Japan positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.
We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients.
We achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We deliver consistent services across our platform of practices and sectors in all matters we undertake.
Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, Fortune 500 and the Tokyo Stock Exchange listed enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. We also advise governments and public sector bodies.
Maples Group
https://maples.com/services/legal-services/dispute-resolution-and-insolvency/corporate-restructuring-and-insolvencyPractising Cayman Islands, BVI and Irish law, the Maples Group's global restructuring and insolvency team are offshore market leaders with highly experienced teams located in the Cayman Islands, BVI, Ireland, Hong Kong, London and Singapore. The Maples Group has played a leading role in virtually all of the major offshore restructurings and liquidations in the last decade, acting company or creditor side and regularly acting for officeholders in both liquidations and restructurings. The team is recognised for its ability to navigate the most complex, high-value insolvency and restructuring matters whether contentious or non-contentious, consistently delivering award winning, innovative and pragmatic solutions that are implemented both in and out of court. Consistently recognised by Chambers, Legal 500 and GRR, the team is uniquely positioned to deliver exceptional results for clients. Commitment to practical and efficient solutions, using innovation and collaboration as required, ensures clients receive fast, accurate and pragmatic advice tailored to their most critical needs. Key roles have included acting for China Evergrande Group, Ocean Rig and Bybit Fintech Limited.
Sainz
Sainz Abogados is a Mexican law firm dedicated to excellence, focused on delivering innovative and effective solutions to clients. The firm is actively engaged in a dynamic and complex practice, both domestically and cross-border, representing a diverse range of clients—from some of the world’s largest corporations, including Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions, to entrepreneurs.
The team at Sainz Abogados employs a collaborative approach to ensure high responsiveness, providing accurate, efficient, timely, and bespoke solutions. With over 23 years of experience working cohesively, the team is recognized by clients and peers for having a top-tier team of highly specialized lawyers known for their efficiency in sophisticated transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters.
With more than 80 lawyers, 23 years of collaboration, and three offices throughout Mexico (Mexico City, Cancun, and Queretaro), our professional staff works actively across the firm's 16 practice areas to ensure timely and effective responses for our clients.
Weil
https://www.weil.com/As one of the original market participants, Weil’s Private Equity practice has remained a pioneer of the industry since advising many of the first private equity sponsors over 30 years ago. From becoming the first U.S. firm to support private equity clients in Europe and Asia, to more recent expansions into Los Angeles and San Francisco, Weil remains at the forefront of innovation, ready to serve clients wherever they operate. Today, Weil is uniquely positioned in the market, advising clients across the private equity spectrum—from first-time funds to the largest global sponsors—while continuing to deliver the commercial, sophisticated counsel that has defined, and will continue to define, its market-leading reputation.
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