The firm

Entrepreneurial, creative and collaborative. HFW is an international law firm, which advises businesses engaged in all aspects of international commerce including commodities, shipping, aerospace, construction, energy and resources, insurance and reinsurance. Our firm has a worldwide reputation for excellence and innovation. We have one of the largest and most active disputes practices in the market coupled with a strong transactional practice. Our lawyers are routinely involved in high-value, complex, cross-border issues.

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Our areas of expertise include:

‍Corporate restructuring

• Restructuring of debt and workouts for banks and other lenders;
• Distressed M&A and corporate finance;
• Corporate turnaround and rescue (acting for the corporate debtor).
• Advice to company directors, shareholders and other stakeholders.
• The use of administration, schemes of arrangement and company voluntary arrangements in restructuring.
• Other formal insolvency procedures including receivership and liquidation.

Contentious Work

• Litigation on behalf of administrators, liquidators and other office-holders both from the UK and overseas
• Fraud investigations and asset tracing.
• Asset recovery.
• Applications for injunctive relief.
• Cross-border litigation including issues arising from the Cross-Border
• Insolvency Regulations 2006.
• Claims against directors, including wrongful/fraudulent trading and misfeasance claims
• Recovery actions, including transactions at an undervalue and preference claims.
• Other clawback remedies, including challenging the validity of secured claims.
• Acting for directors in defending claims from office-holders and others.
• Complex derivatives litigation.

Our insolvency work has a significant focus on offshore jurisdictions and we have extensive “on the ground” experience in many of the world’s financial centres. We are active in restructuring across multiple sectors, acting for stakeholders including lenders, creditors, investors, corporate debtors, directors and insolvency office-holders.

Our clients say...

“The HFW team is experienced, highly competent, and very responsive across all levels of seniority. Communication and delegation between the team is good so service levels are high.” – Legal 500 2024.

“Wonderfully diverse and collaborative group of lawyers that always give 110% to every case.” – Legal 500 2024.

“HFW is adept at handling complex and large-scale fraud litigation.” – Chambers & Partners 2024.

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Contact us

Address
8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom

‍Telephone
+44 (0)20 7264 8000

Website
‍http://www.hfw.com

Contacts

HONG KONG/LONDON
Noel Campbell, Partner
T: +852 3983 7788 (HK)
T: +44 (0)20 7264 8272 (LDN)
E: noel.campbell@hfw.com

LONDON
Rick Brown, Partner
T: +44 (0)20 7264 8461
E: rick.brown@hfw.com

PARIS
Vincent Bénézech, Partner
T: +33 1 44 94 40 50
E: vincent.benezech@hfw. com

GENEVA
Sarah Hunt, Partner
T: +41 (0)22 322 4800
E: sarah.hunt@hfw.com

DUBAI
Nick Braganza, Partner
T: +971 4 423 0555
E: nicholas.braganza@hfw. com

SYDNEY
Ranjani Sundar, Partner
T: +61 (0)2 9320 4600
E: ranjani.sundar@hfw.com

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
Scott Cruickshanks, Partner
T: +1 (284) 494 6048
E: scott.cruickshank@hfw.com

Offices

‍Abu Dhabi, Brussels, British Virgin Islands, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, Kuwait City, London, Melbourne, Monaco, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, Rio de Janeiro, Riyadh, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney

Licensed insolvency practitioners

Noel Campbell (1990)