Our Capabilities

Bell Gully has a wealth of expertise and experience in insolvency, corporate restructuring, receiverships and liquidations. We have been involved in the largest, most complex and significant cases in New Zealand. Our specialist team is also regularly engaged to assist on major cross-border insolvency issues.

Bell Gully is recognised as a leader among New Zealand's restructuring and insolvency legal practices.

The practice is built around the multi-disciplinary expertise of experienced and highly regarded finance, litigation and corporate and specialists.

Our approach is focused on delivering technical expertise with the pragmatism to achieve our clients' commercial objectives.

We advise receivers, liquidators and statutory managers across the whole range of insolvency and restructuring matters including:

• corporate reconstruction and workouts
• receiverships
• liquidations
• voluntary administrations
• cross-border insolvency
• debt restructuring.

Bell Gully has acted on most of New Zealand's largest distressed debt restructures arising from the global financial crisis. We act for the major participants in the insolvency and restructuring market, including receivers PwC, McGrathNicol and KordaMentha, as well as major banks and financial institutions. Bell Gully also advises the New Zealand Government's bankruptcy agency, the Official Assignee, in Auckland.

It is noted in IFLR1000 2012 that Bell Gully's restructuring and insolvency team continues to be involved with the most significant complex transactions in the New Zealand market.