Financial Restructuring

Paul Hastings’ Financial Restructuring Group ranks among the global market leaders and the world’s largest restructuring practices. We stand alone among our peers, with deep expertise across numerous disciplines, including front-end finance, private credit, special situation lending, and core restructuring and distressed corporate transactions. We have played central roles in numerous landmark and high-profile domestic and cross-border restructurings, establishing a proven track record representing ad hoc groups, official committees, companies, alternative investors, private equity firms, traditional lenders, distressed funds and boards of directors.

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Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite
Chambers USA: Nationwide (2026)
Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite
Chambers USA: New York (2026)
No. 2 Lead Counsel Rankings Advisors
Debtwire (2025)
No. 2 Most Retained Legal Advisors – Creditor/Other Engagements
Octus (2025)
No. 4 Most Retained Legal Advisors – All Engagements
Octus (2025)
Restructuring Team of the Year
Legal 500 (2025)
Corporate Rescue of the Year – Legal Team
TRI Awards (2024, 2025)
Top 20 Restructuring Law Firms in the World
Global Restructuring Review (2025)
Private Credit
Chambers USA: Nationwide (2026)
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Chambers USA: Illinois (2026)
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Chambers USA: California (2026)
Restructuring/Insolvency
Chambers UK (2025)
International Matter of the Year
American Bankruptcy Institute (2024, 2025)
Mega Company Turnaround of the Year and Large Company Turnaround of the Year
Turnaround Management Association (2025)
Restructuring of the Year ($1 Billion to $5 Billion)
M&A Advisor (2025)

The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Marelli Holdings in its Chapter 11 cases.
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of FTX in its Chapter 11 cases.
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of WeWork in its Chapter 11 cases.
Mosaic, as debtor, in its Chapter 11 cases.
An ad hoc group of crossover lenders and noteholders in the multibillion-dollar Diamond Sports Chapter 11 cases.
An ad hoc group of lenders in the Chapter 11 cases of Franchise Group.
An ad hoc group of convertible noteholders in the Chapter 11 cases of Spirit Airlines.
Barnes & Noble Education, as debtor, on the terms of new equity and refinancing transactions.
GPS Hospitality, as debtor, in its refinancing.
The creditors committee in relation to the amendment and extension of €530 million debt facilities of the ARVOS Group.
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors appointed in the Chapter 11 cases of Prospect Medical Holdings.
An ad hoc group of lenders in Empire Today’s liquidity-enhancing, de-levering new super-priority term loan and debt exchange transaction.
Carlyle, Goldman Sachs and LGT on their financing to Apex Group, a global financial services provider, in connection with the £1.5 billion acquisition of British asset management services provider Sanne Group, in a public-to-private transaction.
An ad hoc group of noteholders in the multibillion-dollar financing and acquisition of TPC Holdings through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Various originators, investors and servicers on the sale and securitization of portfolios of Greek nonperforming loans under the Greek HAPS scheme, including Project Phoenix (€1.95 billion), Project Sunrise I (€7.2 billion) and Project Frontier (€6 billion).
Quotient Limited, as debtor, in its pre-packaged bankruptcy cases and its out-of-court international restructuring.
An ad hoc group of senior lenders to Checkers, in its recapitalization that reduced the company’s debt from approximately $300 million to $75 million.
Secured lenders and noteholders in the $4.4 billion restructuring of Digicel International Finance.