Restructuring

William Blair & Company’s restructuring practice provides accurate, insightful assessments of its clients’ strategic and financial alternatives and then works with its clients to execute the appropriate strategy. Industry specialists work hand-in-hand with bankers who have restructuring, M&A, and capital-raising expertise to develop and implement the correct financial restructuring strategy. This approach allows William Blair & Company to provide solutions that are tailored to the particular issues and concerns of the client’s business, market conditions, and requirements of all constituents involved.

William Blair & Company service offerings to companies in and out of bankruptcy

• Strategic alternatives assessment
• Business viability review
• In-court versus out-of-court options
• Valuation and liquidation analysis
• Advice regarding the sale of an entire company, a division, a subsidiary, or other assets
• Optimal capital structuring
• Debt restructuring strategies
• Structuring and negotiating D.I.P. financings
• Fairness and liquidity opinions
• Restructuring existing debt and equity, including structuring and negotiating forbearance agreements and revised terms and covenants
• Exit financing assistance
• Advising and reporting to boards and special committees

William Blair & Company service offerings for creditors:

• Collateral and financial covenant reviews
• Valuations and liquidation analysis (“going concern” valuations)
• Assessment of restructuring/reorganization alternatives
• Structuring and negotiating D.I.P. financings
• Advising creditor committees
• Advice regarding the sale of a business or specific assets
• Negotiations regarding financings and M&A transactions
• Structuring, negotiating, and placing exit financing

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