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Restructuring & Insolvency

Decisive legal strategies in times of financial pressure.

At AJ & Co, we provide pragmatic, outcome-focused advice to clients navigating financial distress, restructuring, or insolvency.

We act for insolvency practitioners, creditors, directors, shareholders and financiers across complex corporate restructures, insolvency events, and related litigation. With deep expertise in both commercial and dispute contexts, we help manage risk, preserve value, and achieve orderly outcomes - even in high-pressure environments.

Our team advises across all stages of financial distress - from risk mitigation and restructuring, through to formal insolvency appointments and asset recovery.

Our Expertise Includes:

  • Insolvency risk management and minimisation
  • Debt and equity restructures
  • Cross-border insolvency work
  • Providing strategic advice to insolvency practitioners, creditors, stakeholders and directors on how best to deal with a company’s potential insolvency
  • Assisting directors and shareholders to come to an arrangement with creditors and restructure capital, either informally or through the external administration process
  • Receiverships
  • Assisting directors involved in ASIC reviews, investigations and prosecutions and act on behalf of financiers and creditors who may suffer an exposure as a result of a failed company schemes of arrangement
  • Bankruptcy and liquidation, including acting for the trustee or liquidator in the areas of asset recovery
  • Priority and perfection disputes arising out of competing security interests
  • Potential personal liability resulting from trading and realisation activities
  • Administration of managed investment scheme interests



Our Restructuring & Insolvency Specialists

Tracy Rafferty

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Marion Niestroj

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Sophie Inwood

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