Cross-Border Insolvency
When assets and obligations span jurisdictions, the risk is duplication, conflict, and exposure. We coordinate a single, coherent strategy across borders.
Coordinated strategy across multiple jurisdictions.
Competing legal systems, recognition proceedings, and creditors in multiple countries can turn insolvency into a multi-front conflict — with reputation exposed on each of them. Fragmented advice is how a coordinated matter becomes a coordinated crisis.
- Enterprises with assets or operations in multiple countries
- Principals whose interests and obligations cross borders
- Creditors and debtors navigating recognition proceedings
- Groups needing one strategy across several jurisdictions
- Assets, creditors, or operations sit in more than one country
- A foreign proceeding threatens assets held elsewhere
- You need recognition of a proceeding across borders
- Local counsel abroad are working without central coordination
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Map
We chart the assets, obligations, and forums involved to identify the center of main interests and the optimal lead jurisdiction.
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Coordinate
We manage recognition, parallel proceedings, and local counsel so the strategy stays unified across borders.
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Resolve
We drive toward a single coordinated outcome — often a private settlement that avoids any public filing.
The work, from first day to final order.
Jurisdiction strategy
Analysis of the center of main interests and selection of the lead forum.
Recognition proceedings
Chapter 15 and equivalent recognition to protect assets across borders.
Local counsel management
Trusted counsel abroad, coordinated under a single senior-partner-led strategy.
Multi-forum settlement
A unified resolution that binds parties across the jurisdictions involved.
Across borders, one strategy is the difference between coordination and chaos.
Eleanor R. Ashcroft
Managing Partner
What resolution looks like.
- A unified strategy across jurisdictions
- Conflicting proceedings coordinated or avoided
- Cross-border exposure resolved discreetly
Common questions.
- My assets are in several countries. Which law applies?
- It depends on where your center of main interests sits and where assets and creditors are located. We map this early and choose the lead jurisdiction deliberately.
- Can you manage counsel in other countries?
- Yes. We coordinate trusted local counsel abroad while keeping a single, senior-partner-led strategy at the center.
- What is Chapter 15 recognition?
- It is the mechanism by which a foreign insolvency proceeding is recognized in the United States, protecting assets here while the main case proceeds abroad.
Discuss your matter in confidence.
Every inquiry is reviewed by a senior partner and protected by attorney–client privilege from the first word.