Our Insolvency, Restructuring & Recovery practice advises companies, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, directors, creditors, investors, and government stakeholders on distressed situations, restructures, insolvency proceedings, and asset recovery across PNG.
We focus on providing legal advice and assistance that preserves enterprise value, manages financial risk, protects stakeholder interests, and enables effective turnarounds and recoveries across various industries including aviation, finance, energy, mining, infrastructure, construction, and retail.
Core Capabilities
Insolvency & Recovery
Our insolvency and recovery capability supports clients through every stage of financial distress, from receiverships, liquidations and voluntary administrations to insolvent trading issues, director liability, statutory demands, enforcement action, and winding-up proceedings. We bring strategic judgment and practical execution to preference, voidable transaction, and asset recovery claims, including matters with cross-border dimensions, helping clients protect value, manage risk, and pursue effective commercial outcomes in complex insolvency environments.
Restructuring & Turnaround Advisory
We advise clients on corporate and debt restructures, recapitalisations, workouts, informal rescue and refinancing arrangements, bringing practical commercial judgment to distressed asset transactions and stakeholder negotiations. Our team supports clients with governance reform, continuity planning, and risk management, helping businesses stabilise operations, preserve value and position themselves for sustainable recovery.
Directors & Governance
We provide clear, commercially focused advice to boards and directors navigating financial distress, including duties and liability, creditor considerations, restructuring strategy and crisis management. Our governance support helps directors make informed decisions under pressure while managing regulatory engagement, compliance obligations, and stakeholder expectations.
Creditor Rights & Enforcement
We act for creditors and secured parties in protecting and enforcing their rights, including security enforcement, receiver appointments, debt recovery, and judgment enforcement. Our experience extends to priority disputes, guarantees, indemnities, asset tracing, and cross-border enforcement, enabling clients to pursue recovery strategies that are decisive, commercially realistic and aligned with their risk position.
Insolvency Practitioners & Litigation
We support receivers, administrators, and liquidators in contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters, including preference and fraudulent transaction litigation, breach of duty claims and solvency disputes. Working closely with our Litigation team, we provide coordinated recovery strategies that combine technical insolvency expertise with practical dispute resolution and enforcement capability.
Why Clients Choose Us
Clients choose us for our deep understanding of PNG’s insolvency and commercial environment, our proven experience across both formal and informal restructures, and our ability to deliver integrated advice drawing on our Banking, Corporate, Tax and Litigation expertise. We bring practical, results-oriented judgment to high-pressure situations, helping clients manage complexity, protect value, and pursue commercially effective outcomes.
