Special Situations
Special situations and special opportunities require a nuanced approach and a high degree of legal creativity.
In this context, we provide clear and straightforward legal advice as well as strategic and tactical advice, based on our extensive experience with one-off and unprecedented situations.
We always focus on developing solutions that work on the spot and in the long run.
This ranges from high-level analyses of situations to identifying their core issues to structuring and implementing solutions for them.
Examples include:
- Distressed debt
- Special situations
- Special opportunities
- Event-driven opportunities
- Broken deal advisory
- General and specific legal investment advice
- NPL sales and purchases
- Off-standard transactions
- Special projects
Special Opportunities
Representative matters
Greenlake Legal advised a special opportunities fund on the structuring of the sale and purchase of arbitration claims
The seller of the arbitration claims, an Austrian-based group of companies, was seeking for a combined sale and financing. The arbitration claims originated from disputes
Greenlake Legal advised a large Austrian bank as creditor in the insolvency of a renewable energy production company and in the transfer of its claim to a purchaser
This was a distressed sale of debt of a project entity in the USA. Complexity came in as the loan was initially granted to the
Greenlake Legal advised a London-based special opportunities fund in a distressed debt transaction in Greece and Serbia
This transaction was a distressed debt investment in Greece and Serbia involving the purchase of secured debt and acquiring the underlying assets by enforcing security.
Greenlake Legal advised a UK-based special opportunities fund on a potential distressed debt transaction in connection with the acquisition of the assets of an automotive supplier
We came in only a couple of days before the deadline for entering bids expired. Complexity came in due to a blurry legacy of the
Greenlake Legal advised a New York-based fund as minority shareholder in connection with a squeeze-out of a listed Austrian company
In this transaction, we advised the largest minority shareholder and combined our technical skills related to legal and procedural issues and our knowledge in relation