Distressed Assets

Distressed Assets

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For distressed asset investors, the global recession has seen unprecedented fluctuations in asset values. Prices remain significantly depressed from their peak levels. While the market conditions present inherent challenge, they also present a clear opportunity for those buyers in a position to leverage market conditions and maximize returns.

To take advantage of the opportunities presented, you ideally want the integrated experience of transactional, finance, restructuring, real estate, tax and regulatory specialists. Dentons gives you that expertise with a clear understanding of the restructuring and insolvency process—to the benefit of clients positioned as distressed buyers or sellers.

Dentons has helped a range of clients manage the dislocations in the marketplace—hedge funds, private equity funds and strategic investors, as well as banks and financial institutions. This includes experience across asset class, sector and geography, and acquisitions of distressed debt and equity.

By partnering with Dentons, you get years of experience across restructuring and asset purchase and parallel knowledge around industry trends, valuations, and regulatory and business concerns. And we don’t only react to your challenges, we work with you to anticipate and provide a rapid response to opportunities—mitigating risk and optimizing the returns on your investments. Look to our lawyers for effective solutions in distressed asset investment, including:

Asset purchases out of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings
Sponsorship for plans of reorganization
Acquisition in conjunction with composition of creditors
Out-of-court distressed asset purchase transactions
Distressed M&A transactions
ABS
RMBS
CMBS
CDOs
CRE CDOs
Re-REMICs
Commercial mortgage loans, B-notes, and mezzanine loans
Participations and partnership interests
CP conducts and master trusts
Derivatives and structured products
Negotiating, documenting and advising with respect to distressed loans and claims trading

Experience

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): Representing in connection with, among other things, (i) the over $17 billion sale of all of the assets of IndyMac Bank (primarily commercial and residential mortgage loans, servicing rights and mortgage-related securities), (ii) the development of the forms used in the Structured Loan Sale program currently used by the FDIC to sell portfolios of commercial mortgage loans from banks under FDIC receivership and (iii) the development of the form transaction documents for this program.