Restructuring / Insolvency
FBK Legal provides services related to all bankruptcy stages and represents all parties involved.
Protection the creditors’ rights
- Assessing legal grounds to initiate a counterparty's bankruptcy proceedings, submitting a bankruptcy petition against a counterparty
- Legal support for the appointment of an insolvency manager and related legal advice
- Support related to the inclusion of creditors' claims in the creditors' register
- Preventing false claims from being included in the register
- Challenging transactions made by the debtors under general and special grounds provided for by the Insolvency Law
- Developing a bankruptcy action plan and approaches to voting at meetings of bankruptcy creditors
- Representing creditors at meetings of creditors and before the creditors' committee
- Appealing against actions of the insolvency manager, recovering damages from the insolvency manager, penalising the insolvency manager under administrative law
- Imposing subsidiary liability
Protecting the debtor's rights
- Developing a pre-bankruptcy and bankruptcy action plan
- Analysing the debtor’s transactions and documents, mitigating risks of challenge and subsidiary liability
- Defending the debtor's transactions if challenged by creditors and/or the insolvency manager
- Defending management in claims for damages and subsidiary liability
- Preparation of the register of creditors' claims
- Holding meetings of bankruptcy creditors
- Development and approval of settlement agreements
Supporting the insolvency manager
- Challenging claims of dishonest creditors
- Collecting accounts receivable
- Forced sale of pledged property
- Collecting debts from guarantors
- Assessing the possibility of imposing subsidiary liability on those who caused the debtor’s bankruptcy
Cases
Support for debt recovery from dealers of a Japanese two-wheeled motor vehicles manufacturer
Representation in a number of judicial disputes within debt recovery and bankruptcy of dealers
Legal representation of a large investment company
Successful protection of a company’s interests in a number of bankruptcy cases
Protection of interests in a case on recovery of losses from a debtor controlling person
Legal representation in a claim of the bankruptcy receiver against our client for recovery of the losses related to the organisation of a conference
Legal support during debtor bankruptcy proceedings
Representing a creditor in two bankruptcy proceedings of its debtors
Due diligence of a company in bankruptcy and support of its discharge from bankruptcy
Comprehensive legal and financial due diligence of a company in bankruptcy that owns a wide network of gas filling stations
Litigation support in a subsidiary liability case
Legal support for owners of a construction group
Supporting bankruptcies of pharmaceutical distributors
Representing the client at all bankruptcy stages
Reviewing contracts of a bank in bankruptcy
Checking a contribution to the charter capital and property of a bank under rehabilitation
Support in bringing a former director to subsidiary liability
Recovery of damages and making a former director liable for the company’s debts
Representing a former shareholder in a subsidiary liability case
Developing a strategy and successful litigation support
Supporting bankruptcy proceedings
Identifying debtors’ assets, transactions that may be challenged, ways to increase bankruptcy assets
Analysing the situation related to a counterparty’s bankruptcy
Analysing how to obtain results of works performed
Research: Improvement of Russian Legislation Related to Taxation in Bankruptcy
Preparing concepts and drafts of regulations
