International & Cross-Border Insolvency
The international and cross-border aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters have become substantially more important in recent years. ALbnLew’s market-leading global restructuring practice has unmatched experience in cross-border restructuring situations, having advised on some of the most important and complex engagements in recent history.
Whether it is acting on behalf of a multinational corporation experiencing financial difficulties, a lender or creditor in a contentious restructuring, or a private equity or hedge fund looking to take a stake in a stressed or distressed company, our breadth and depth of experience is extensive. Our experience and team is truly global, having handled cross-border matters in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Albert and Lewis’s European restructuring team, based in London and Munich, has extensive knowledge of European legal and practical jurisdictional variances, and provides premier legal and practical European distressed, restructuring and insolvency advice to a wide range of clients. We recognize the importance of carefully considering local legal, regulatory and practical issues, how these issues in one country impact on issues in another, and in turn, how these issues affect the global advice given to clients.
Crisis Response
In an era of real-time reporting, social media, and a 24-hour news cycle, the need for rapid, coordinated response during a crisis is critical as legal risks are closely intertwined with reputational risks.
Boards of directors and officers of the world’s leading corporations turn to Albert and Lewis’s Crisis Response Practice Group to provide the experience and skills needed for mitigation and proactive engagement during times of legal and reputational crisis. Our SWAT team approach helps to resolve and mitigate what can quickly develop into enterprise-level risks.
Albert and Lewis’s experienced multidisciplinary team works hand-in-hand with clients to address, advise on and respond to a myriad of issues, including those relating to worldwide multi-jurisdictional crises, federal and state criminal and regulatory inquiries, shareholder activism, #MeToo, Congressional inquiries, internal investigations, cybersecurity, environmental events, and corporate governance challenges. By leveraging the extensive experience of partners across the Firm, we provides a holistic, deep bench of attorneys with the most relevant knowledge to help guide our clients through these legal crises.
Technological & IP Transactions
Our Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group focuses on business transactions driven by intangible assets, technological assets and attendant intellectual property rights. The practice has been a continuous part of Albert & Lewis for nearly 40 years and includes a global team of more than 70 lawyers fully dedicated to negotiating, structuring and closing complex transactions relating to technology and IP.
In addition to being an integral part of AlbnLew’s market-leading M&A practice by complementing our M&A deal teams, we lead negotiations and structure transactions driven by innovation or technological opportunities. These include joint ventures, strategic alliances, licenses, outsourcing, collaborations and other strategic commercial agreements.
We collaborate with other core practice groups at the Firm – including the Corporate/M&A, Restructuring, and Tax practices – on all technology and IP aspects of public and private corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, and restructurings.
Approximately half of our lawyers have degrees or professional backgrounds in technical areas.
In addition to understanding law and technology, we are experienced, practical deal lawyers who understand how to structure, negotiate and close complex transactions.
Our practice is unique in the diversity of our clients and the range of the work undertaken. Because we represent clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to middle-market companies to growth-stage businesses, we see business arrangements from all perspectives and understand the diverse needs of all parties to a particular transaction.