Restructuring

As a member of the Global Restructuring and Insolvency Professionals network, DFDL’s restructuring practice provides expert guidance on local and cross-border restructuring, refinancing, and insolvency across Southeast and South Asia. Our firm is experienced in banking, corporate, energy, employment, real estate, insolvency, and tax, offering strategic solutions for debtors, creditors, and distressed entities.

Key Credentials

  • British American Tobacco Myanmar on local law advisory and strategy on key considerations for exit, including comprehensive due diligence on risks, liabilities and mitigation strategies considering the exit. The transaction also includes a debt restructuring between the group companies.
  • A telecom services provider controlling shareholder of the debtor, in relation to the first insolvency proceedings to go through the entire insolvency and liquidation process in Cambodia.
  • Belt Road Investment Group, one of the largest funds investing in the Mekong region, on the restructuring of the target group, which consists of entities in Singapore, Cambodia and Myanmar engaging in digital media, online retail and logistics businesses, in anticipation of Belt Road’s subscription for 24.27% of the shares in the parent company.
  • Bank of China, one of China’s biggest state-owned commercial banks, in relation to a refinancing of an existing USD 421 million facility for a telecommunications group in Cambodia.
  • A leading e-commerce services platform in relation to its proposed global liquidation and dissolution process in Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

How We Can Help

  • Corporate Restructuring: Support for cross-border corporate restructuring and workouts.
  • Debt Solutions: Facilitate debt restructuring, rescheduling, and tax forgiveness.
  • Distressed Asset Management: Manage divestment of distressed businesses and assets.
  • Insolvency Procedures: Navigate formal bankruptcy and insolvency processes.
  • Workforce and Tax: Advise on workforce restructuring and tax settlement during liquidation.