Restructuring & Insolvency

With the rapid changes in economic activity and growth today, businesses face mounting financial, operational and regulatory pressures. Effective restructurings demand advisers who can navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, distressed asset scenarios and cross-border insolvency frameworks with clarity and commercial insight.

Our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice is well regarded for advising a broad range of stakeholders, including creditors, debtors, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, funds, directors, and investors, on both contentious and non-contentious matters. The team regularly handles domestic and cross-border restructurings, corporate insolvency proceedings, and complex workouts across diverse sectors such as finance, shipping, commodities, construction, retail, energy, manufacturing, and technology. Shook Lin & Bok is also recognised for its depth of expertise in restructuring, insolvency, and related disputes, with substantial experience acting for insolvency practitioners from the ‘Big 4’ consultancy firms as well as regional and boutique practices. The firm is also empanelled by all major local banks and several international banks and frequently advises financial institutions on restructuring and insolvency matters.

We take a strategic and commercially driven approach to restructuring and insolvency, helping clients navigate urgent timeframes, competing interests and distressed financial situations while preserving value wherever possible. With extensive cross-border experience, we regularly coordinate with foreign counsel, manage recognition of Singapore proceedings and handle matters involving parallel or multi-jurisdictional enforcement. Our team also acts in a wide range of contentious insolvency matters, including directors’ duties breaches, fraudulent trading, unfair preferences, undervalue transactions and asset recovery, and appears before all levels of the Singapore courts in both urgent and substantive applications.

The team advises on:

• Receiverships
• Judicial management
• Schemes of arrangement
• Liquidation
• Bankruptcy
• Cross-border insolvencies
• Debt restructuring

Our familiarity with the Singapore Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act (IRDA) and international insolvency regimes enables us to deliver informed, practical and timely advice to our clients.