Mrs Piya Mukherjee > Horten > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Horten Offices
PHILIP HEYMANS ALLÉ 7
2900 HELLERUP
COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Mrs Piya Mukherjee
Work Department
Insolvency and reorganisation.
Position
Piya Mukherjee is head of Horten’s insolvency and restructuring group. She is specialised in insolvency law and has more than 25 years’ experience in restructuring and winding up of ailing commercial enterprises. Piya advises Danish and foreign creditors with impaired exposures and provides legal advice to corporate management in connection with analysing financial difficulties experienced by commercial enterprises, drafting proposals for restructuring or winding up, carrying through restructuring and advising on directors’ liability.
Piya has many years’ experience in formal insolvency proceedings and often acts as trustee in connection with administration of insolvent estates and as liquidator in connection with compulsory dissolution of companies. She is official trustee with the Bankruptcy Division of the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court.
Career
Certified insolvency attorney by the Association of Danish Insolvency Attorneys, 2013; Partner, Horten, 2007; Right of audience before the High Court, 1990
Languages
Scandinavian languages and English.
Memberships
Immediate Past President, INSOL Europe; Council Member of INSOL Europe; Member of the board of Erling Bernhofts Family Fund; International Insolvency Institute; The Danish Trustees and Liquidation Association; Association of Danish Insolvency Attorneys
Education
LL.M., King’s College London, 1992; Master of Laws, the University of Copenhagen, 1987.
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Insolvency
(Leading individuals)Horten‘s restructuring and insolvency team specialises in creditor representation, distressed M&A and non-performing loans, compulsory liquidations and bankruptcies. Members of the team are regularly appointed as trustees of the bankrupt estates of businesses, often at the request of the Debt Collection Agency. Led by Piya Mukherjee, the team has extensive experience as administrators of in-court and out-of-court restructurings in Denmark; Mukherjee also handles issues relating to insolvency practitioner rights in insolvencies.