Christopher Kranz

Christopher is a partner in our Banking & Finance and Restructuring & Special Situations practices. He is the head of the German RSS Practice. He regularly advises lenders, creditors, debtors, directors, investors and shareholders in relation to finance transactions and debt restructurings, often within a cross-border context. His practice covers all areas of finance, restructuring, insolvency and corporate law. Some recent examples include the successful restructurings of Softline AG through the use of a state-of-the-art StaRUG-Proceeding, MagForce AG by way of a distressed M&A transaction combined with a cross-border debt equity swap or the insolvency proceedings over Wirecard AG and Fintyre Group. Christopher has extensive experience in the areas of secured lending, Schuldschein loans, acquisition finance, distressed refinancings and M&A, workouts and all varieties of rescue and insolvency proceedings. In addition, Christopher regularly publishes on insolvency, corporate and finance law with a particular focus on new hybrid proceedings such as the German StaRUG-Scheme, the Dutch Scheme and the UK Scheme of Arrangement/Restructuring Plan. · Simmons & Simmons