Latham & Watkins LLP

Frank Grell helps clients navigate distressed situations related to restructuring or insolvency. He chairs the German Restructuring & Special Situations Practice and served as Local Department Chair of the German Finance Department. Frank has earned a strong reputation from clients and leading publications for his empathetic approach and ability to craft pragmatic and commercial solutions in high-pressure or crisis situations.

Frank advises:

• Companies, management, and shareholders in a financial or operational crisis
• Creditors in all phases of financial restructurings, including debt-equity swaps, share pledge enforcements, and insolvency plan proceedings
• Investors on the acquisition of distressed companies and on restructuring, rescue financing, or refinancing transactions, including debt-equity swaps
• Insolvency administrators on M&A, restructurings, or disputes

Complementing his transactional work, he also represents parties in claw-back and liability cases.

Frank is a board member of TMA Germany e.V. and of Norddeutsches Insolvenzforum e.V. (Insolvency Forum of Northern Germany).

He regularly speaks and writes about insolvency and restructuring matters.