A week is often described as a long time in politics, and so also, it seems, in the restructuring market. In May, one week alone saw significant strides forward with: The judgment of Mr Justice Snowden in Virgin Active —the first contested showdown of the new Restructuring Plan, pitting the power...
From an economic perspective, Germany has weathered the pandemic quite well until now—at least if success is measured in low unemployment and insolvency figures. How that was achieved, what changes were made to the German legal restructuring framework, and what may follow after the national...
The last decade has been enormously transformative for the retail industry. The soaring popularity of e-commerce, shifts in consumer behavior and demographics, and declining store foot traffic have pushed many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to the brink, and some were tipped over into...
Consumer-reliant sectors in the UK, such as retail, leisure, and hospitality, have been significantly, and potentially permanently, impacted by government lockdowns and movement restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as evidenced by the range of high-profile insolvencies in the past 12...
Stagnating attendance, high fixed costs, and mounting debt have long challenged the exhibitor industry. Consumer habits have continued to change as home theater equipment has become more affordable and newer streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) options have entered the marketplace. In addition,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, corporate restructuring has provided a strategic alternative for many retailers. Coming as it did amid an already fragile retail environment, the pandemic pushed more than three dozen retailers into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020,...
The oft-touted “retail apocalypse” has resulted in a large number of retailers seeking Chapter 11 protection. This wave of Chapter 11 filings has been attributed to a number of factors, including the rise of online and direct-to-consumer retail, a shift in retail preferences, and, of course, the...
In an article in this publication in 2019, we discussed the “retail apocalypse” and how lenders, turnaround professionals, and other stakeholders could adjust to the new normal in retail. Just over a year later, a global pandemic hit, and everything changed—again. The retail industry has endured...
One of the engines of the Spanish economy is tourism, attracting in a good year about 85 million visitors, almost double the country’s entire population. The Covid-19 pandemic has had the most detrimental impact in memory on Spain’s hotel sector, a key pillar of the tourism industry, which...
The pandemic has ravaged businesses in every sector across the world. One of the hardest hit areas has been the hospitality industry. When nearly universal stay-at-home mandates were instituted, travel came to a halt, leading to unprecedented turbulence and a disproportionate impact on the lodging...
