Emmett Law identifies restructuring solutions and opportunities for stressed balance sheets and businesses facing liquidity challenges. 

In the world of special and tactical opportunities Emmett Law specialises in creating the appropriate legal framework for every situation. A framework that provides the structure and, if necessary, the time and space to identify and execute upon restructuring opportunities and solutions. Solutions and opportunities premised on maintaining and increasing value. 

Choosing and using the correct combination of legal tools is critical to  

• Preserving value and in recognising where the value breaks

• Protecting directors from personal liability

• Providing downside protection or in structuring for equity upside

Emmett Law focuses on early and discrete intervention, transparency amongst stakeholders and achieving a consensual outcome. Formal processes such as creditors schemes of arrangement, receiverships and administrations are seen as processes that “encourage” consensual outcomes or as tools to facilitate them.

Having seen many a cycle come and go, for over 30 years Dominic Emmett (Emmett Law’s founder) has been at the forefront of providing innovative solutions for those with, and for those looking to invest in, restructuring opportunities. Further, as hedge and credit funds have entered, and continue to operate in, the Australian market, Dominic has been able to devise structures that provide certainty of legal outcome along with solutions analogous to those available in other jurisdictions around the globe.

Dominic has worked with, or for, most major institutional lenders, onshore and offshore hedge and credit funds, restructuring advisors and lawyers, and insolvency practitioners. He spent the first decade of his career in the City of London before heading back to Sydney to work with major Australian law firms. The network Dominic can bring to bear in Australia and internationally is second to none, spanning investors and restructuring professionals alike. He is asked regularly to speak at conferences across the globe.

Emmett Law’s Deals and Credentials evidence Dominic Emmett’s track record in transactions not just in Australia but also across the US and the Americas, Asia and Europe. Transactions that have involved advising Ad Hoc and Lender Groups, Debtors, Issuers, Borrowers and Sponsors and, working on Private Credit Direct Investing, Distressed M&A, Formal Insolvencies and Asset Recovery and Litigation.