Financial Markets and Insurance

Corporate Recovery & Restructuring Services

Holmes helps businesses, creditors, and directors in Ireland manage financial distress through tailored legal strategies for insolvency and restructuring.

Strategic Legal Support for Financially Distressed Businesses

Holmes supports businesses, lenders, shareholders, and insolvency professionals with clear, commercially focused advice across all stages of financial difficulty whether you are restructuring, exiting, or winding down.

Our Corporate Recovery Services

From restructuring and examinership to liquidation and debt resolution, our corporate recovery services are tailored to meet the needs of Irish businesses and their stakeholders during times of financial difficulty.

Restructuring & Turnaround

We guide distressed companies through practical, results-driven restructuring strategies that stabilise operations and restore financial health:

Operational and financial restructuring
Creditor negotiations and debt workouts
Business stabilisation strategies

Insolvency & Liquidation

We advise directors and stakeholders on all aspects of insolvency, ensuring compliance and protecting value wherever possible:

Voluntary and court-appointed liquidations
Solvent wind-downs
Risk management for directors

Examinership & Receivership

We support stakeholders through formal insolvency processes, helping viable businesses restructure or exit efficiently:

Court-supervised restructuring (examinership)
Pre-pack receiverships and asset sales
Representation for borrowers, lenders, and receivers

Debt & Shareholder Solutions

We resolve complex debt and ownership challenges to protect interests and enable long-term business viability.

Schemes of arrangement under Irish law
Informal debt rescheduling and refinancing
Shareholder disputes and legal remedies

Specialist Expertise

Our team also advises on high-stakes issues involving distressed assets, cross-border recovery, and regulated sectors.

Distressed M&A and loan-to-own strategies
Non-performing loan (NPL) sales and acquisitions
Asset tracing and enforcement (Ireland and cross-border)
Pension, insurance, and exit planning during distress

Why Work with Holmes?

Holmes brings together legal depth, commercial insight, and cross-sector experience to deliver fast, strategic solutions. Our team is known for clear communication, decisive action, and client focussed results.