Insolvent companies: Pulling the strings

The new stakeholders in insolvent companies, and the rise of a rescue culture, mean the next wave of restructurings will be radically different from the last

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The cast of contributors to the restructuring process has transformed over the last five years. In the next wave of restructuring, whenever it comes, practitioners will be dealing with a truly changed market place.

The range of participants is now huge, including hedge funds along with distressed and high yield investors. As a result the direct, bilateral relationship between corporates and their lending banks has – at least in the UK, the US and increasingly in western Europe – not just changed, but disappeared.

As if that wasn’t enough, the new stakeholders all have different agendas.

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