Debt & Cross Border Dispute

SOLUTIONS

An independent expert approach to special situations dealing with distressed debt 
and creative solutions in complex dispute matters.

WHAT

WE DO?

We provide you with LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL ADVISORY and TRANSACTIONAL KNOW-HOW in negotiating, structuring, and documenting workout solutions. With our creative and think-out-of-the-box approach we overcome stumbling blocks and negotiate a way out of long (and sometimes) unnecessary disputes. 

1. We pride ourselves on an objective focused solution-driven advice and support while considering other practical and reputational priorities. 

2. We provide creative approaches, and provide analytical rigour and firepower, based upon a culture of deeply engaging in the crisis and managing it to a specific resolution. 

3. We identify and assess regulatory obstacles, provide transactional options, and develop as well as support fruitful litigation and debt recovery claims. 

4. In addition to taking the lead, we also provide expert witness and know-how support with our highly experienced and team of international renown experts. 

PARI PASSU CONSULTING LTD.

OUR AIMS

& VALUES

  • Achieve Practical Optimisation (“PO”) for clients through strong due diligence, market intelligence and  strategic legal and tactical assessment for a clear path to implementation.
  • Provide top class detailed, technical, critical yet practical and pragmatic expertise.
  • Guarantee an integral and independent dedicated service which is exclusive and conflict free.
  • Focus, and cutting-edge practical solutions considering “Risk and Reward” scenarios as well as possible reputational consequences.
  • Straight talk, business diplomacy, and a way forward in multi-faceted complex cross border situations.

OUR

KNOW HOW

Pari Passu Consulting Ltd. offers strategic problem solving in the areas below.

International Finance

  • Development of funding and refinancing strategies for sovereign and other public sector borrowers.
  • Securities and claims’ analysis jointly with litigation risk and expense vs reward assessment.
  • Hedging strategies.
  • Liability appraisal.
  • Credit ratings and investor relations impact evaluation.

Debt Restructuring and Resolution

  • Crisis prevention including negotiations with the IMF and other multilateral agencies.
  • Restructuring of external and domestic sovereign debt owed to all creditor categories.
  • Reviews of guarantees and default and cross default exposures.
  • Optimal strategies for addressing contingent liabilities within both, the public and private sector.
  • Highly specialized approach to impactful recovery strategies and prospects, including judgments’ enforcement and efficient assets negotiation.

Complex Cross-Border Dispute Resolution

  • Analytical approach to assessing, structuring, and implementing recovery strategies over a short period. 
  • Developing and implementing judgments’ enforcement and asset recovery, simultaneously in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Comprehensive reviews of state-owned enterprises’ impact, available bankruptcy protection and possible defences.
  • Economic sanctions profiling and investigations, as well as their impact.
  • Asset tracing.

WHO

WE ARE?

Our multidisciplinary team has vast dedicated specialist experience in sovereign debt matters and international finance in general. With more than 15 years of experience and being fluent in 9 different languages, we have been able to advise clients on the debtor and creditor side and have also represented them in complex cross-border matters (including litigation and arbitration). 

 

We see no boundaries as the operations of our interdisciplinary team are scalable to deploy specialists simultaneously on short notice, as required.

 

The team is widely recognised as being led by a top-tier subject matter experts, under three main streams: 

(1) International finance; 

(2) Debt restructuring and distressed debt resolution; and 

(3) Complex cross-border dispute resolutions. 

 

Representative clients include multilateral organizations, development banks, governments (national and sub-national, including treasury departments), central banks, corporations, hedge funds, law firms, family offices and ultra high net-worth individuals.

 

Through our experience, we help public and private sector parties to navigate the changing and challenging world of modern and innovative finance. 

We work . . .

to understand, assess and then to reduce  your risk and exposure through creative thinking to obtain measurable results.

We trust . . .

our expertise in restructuring loans, bonds  and other instruments under New York and English law. 

We leverage . . .

on our proven track record in dispute resolution matters in domestic courts as well as in international arbitration fora.

We are action and solution oriented

RECENT

WORK

Pari Passu Consulting Ltd. has vast experience in providing solutions to litigation, distressed matters, credit and debt investigation, and effective recovery.

Our work includes representing both debtors and creditors, usually involved in sovereign debt matters, international finance, and cross-border litigation.

Some recent mandates include:

  • Coordinating a sovereign creditor committee with claims in excess of USD 5 billion.
  • Contributing to the development of the legal strategy for a sovereign creditor group in New York litigation.
  • Submitting an amicus-curiae brief with the US Supreme Court.
  • Acting as an expert witness in structured finance claims in Europe.
  • Developing a training programme on sovereign debt for a multilateral organization in Africa.
  • Assisted a North African government in developing a reprofiling programme.
  • Involved in an international investment arbitration related to ‘legacy’ bonds.
  • Court expert in complex cross-border litigation in Spain.

Country Experience