Special Situations
Our team has extensive experience advising middle-market companies during periods of underperformance, distress, and insolvency. We help clients solve problems in challenging, time-sensitive environments, through senior level attention, to ensure that all strategic alternatives are evaluated quickly – and develop tailored solutions for our clients and their key constituencies in order to resolve issues in a timely and effective manner.
Our special situations team has a successful track record representing both debtors and creditors and offers a full range of advisory services including:
• Distressed M&A transactions that maximize creditor recovery
• Debt and equity raises
• Restructuring existing debt or equity
• Strategic alternative and capital structure assessments
• Committee and board representation
We leverage our broad network and global infrastructure to help clients efficiently develop, evaluate, and implement solutions that maximize long- and short-term stakeholder value.
Featured Transactions
has been sold pursuant to a federal receivership sale to
multiple assets have been sold pursuant to §363 of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code
Multiple Counterparties
has been sold pursuant to §363 of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code to
has been sold pursuant to UCC Article 9 to
Concept Group
has been acquired by
has been sold pursuant to §363 of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code to
KWP Recycling GmbH and Bracke Umweltservice GmbH
has been acquired by
Strategic Investor
Acquired by
has been sold pursuant to UCC Article 9 to
has been sold to
Acquired by
Louvrette Design & Packaging GmbH / Roeser GdbR
Acquired by
has been sold pursuant to §363 of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code to
Acquired by
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Additional Insights
- NewsLivingstone expands its Special Situations teamIan Brown has joined Livingstone as a Managing Director to lead the firm’s Special Situations team in London, complementing its established Debt Advisory practice and existing Special Situations teams in the US and Germany.
- In The PressGlobal M&A activity stayed strong in Q2Livingstone's Stephen Miles explores global M&A activity for Mergers & Acquisitions magazine. He notes, "In general, the atmosphere for dealmaking stayed positive in the second quarter, maybe even a little frothy, as investors searched for the best way to profit from today’s many...
- BlogA Market Comes of Age in GermanyAs service industries mature, they often take on a barbell shape – a few big full-service players at one end and, a larger number of smallish specialists at the other. The current round of consolidation among German FM firms is no exception, as market share continues to consolidate around a few...
- In The PressStephen Miles quoted in Quartz article about public markets...and their flawsTesla and Spotify say public markets have major flaws. Do they have a point? According to two prominent executives this week, the stock market isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Initial public offerings are broken, according to Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy (paywall). Tesla CEO Elon Musk says stock...