Finance & Restructuring
We can advise you on a wide range of complex finance and restructuring-related matters and act for stakeholders at all levels of a transaction or capital structure. Clients regularly seeking our advice include issuers, lenders and borrowers, banks and other financial institutions, corporate borrowers experiencing financial difficulties, insolvency officers, official and unofficial creditors’ committees, and principal finance and private equity sponsors.
We are a recognized leader in the finance and restructuring markets in the Nordic region. Due to our extensive experience, garnered from our involvement in a number of major transactions, we possess not only the legal expertise and technical skills required to advise you, but the sophisticated commercial perspective needed in today’s constantly evolving financial environment. We frequently help clients develop pioneering new products and structures, and we coordinate complex cross-border transactions and restructurings.
Our lawyers take an active role in the development of the Nordic financial markets and closely monitor political and legislative initiatives to provide clients with the most up-to-date advice on developments affecting them and their industries. We have a practical, business-oriented approach and extensive experience in giving clients strategic advice on the structuring of deals and the negotiation of transactions. We involve specialists in related practices in order to develop innovative structures and provide a wholly integrated service.
IFLR1000, BankingOverall great work. The lawyers are highly professional, well available and also great to work with. Very prudent and thorough in all assignments.
We work closely with a number of law firms across Europe to give our clients seamless cross-border service. By routinely working with law firms in other jurisdictions, we have established joint procedures and are accustomed to coordinating and leading cross-border transactions efficiently and effectively.
Practice-related services
- Leveraged finance, investment grade finance, real estate finance
- High yield bonds, investment grade bonds, EMTN, MTN, private placements and other debt capital markets instruments
- Securitization, structured finance and financial derivatives
- Direct lending from credit funds, institutions and other non-bank debt providers
- Regulatory advise, including operational and supervisory issues for banks and other financial institutions
- Project finance, infrastructure and PPP
- Mezzanine financing and other junior financing
- Hybrid loans
- Contingency planning
- Out-of-court restructurings and distressed debt trading
- Debt restructuring, including all tranches of debt (e.g. senior debt, mezzanine debt, high-yield bond debt and hybrid debt)
- Debt-to-equity swaps and soft enforcements
- Restructurings through insolvency processes (e.g., formal cram down processes, bankruptcy sales and purchases)
- Distressed and rescue financing
Recognitions
Roschier’s Finance & Restructuring practice is top-ranked by leading international independent legal directories, including Chambers Europe, The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal). The firm has also won several prestigious awards, including the following most recent awards:
- Chambers Europe Awards: the Law Firm of the Year for Finland in 2024 and 2025;
- International Financial Law Review – IFLR European Awards: Law Firm of the Year for Finland in 2025; and
- The Lawyer European Awards: the European Law Firm of the Year in 2023 and The Law Firm of the Year: Northern Europe in 2023.
This is what clients say about us:
“Roschier is frequently instructed by individual lenders and syndicates on a diverse range of banking mandates. The team is well-versed in acquisition, corporate and real estate finance transactions, and also assists investment funds and corporate clients with refinancing matters. The firm possesses particularly strong DCM capabilities, handling high-yield bond issuances, in addition to green bonds, securitisation transactions and recapitalisation plans.”
– Chambers Global 2026, Banking & Finance
“Roschier has significant experience and market-leading commercial skills which come in handy when having to solve complex legal items.”
– Chambers Europe 2026, Banking & Finance
“Roschier is a well-known full-service law firm with a strong reputation in the capital markets area. The team’s expertise covers both ECM and DCM mandates, particularly IPOs and public tenders, as well as note offerings and bond issuances. Lawyers in the firm also handle the establishment of EMTN and securitisation programmes, in addition to advising on regulatory matters. Furthermore, clients benefit from Roschier’s international capabilities, aided by its own foreign offices and partnerships with other law firms, especially across the Nordic markets. The law firm offers experience advising on all sides of capital markets transactions, including assisting the issuer, underwriters and coordinators.”
– Chambers Global 2026, Capital Markets
“Very strong capabilities in both capital markets and M&A related work. Clearly differentiated position on public M&A, in particular, where they have a first-class team.”
– Chambers Europe 2026, Capital Markets
“We engaged Roschier as local counsel and they demonstrated great ability in identifying, flagging, and clarifying the key areas of uncertainty, turning them into manageable and quantifiable risks.”
– The Legal 500 2026, Insolvency
“Roschier has an outstanding reputation for its capacity to handle both out-of-court and formal restructurings, with significant expertise acting either for bondholders or for bank lenders on the protection of their interests in ailing Swedish corporates. The law firm assists banks with the sale of their exposures in companies undergoing restructuring processes. It advises on judicial compositions and assists with the conversion of debt into equity or hybrid securities. It also advises investors on acquisitions of distressed debt.”
– Chambers Europe 2026, Restructuring and Insolvency
“It is a leading law firm in the Nordic region and has an experienced project and infrastructure team with broad resources from additional departments to support in transactions.”
– Chambers Global 2025, Banking & Finance
“Roschier’s banking and finance team is one of the best teams in Stockholm. They provide first-in-class advice on all aspects of a transaction, not only the financing. You know that you are in good hands, with a large team of experts on all kinds of financing, including restructuring.”
– The Legal 500 2025, Banking & Finance
“Roschier has a strong finance team with individual lawyers ranging from very experienced partners to extremely talented younger lawyers. As a law firm, their large scale allows valuable support from other specialty areas (such as Real Estate, Competition, Tax, etc).”
– The Legal 500 2025, Banking & Finance
“Roschier has strong standing in the market and a skilled team with great depth. They are also offering a great availability.”
– IFLR1000 2025, Banking & Finance
“Their excellent knowledge of market practice and a commercially sound approach to all matters makes working with Roschier easy.”
– Chambers Global 2025, Capital Markets
“Roschier is not a traditional legal counsel in the typical sense, but is a true adviser. They are solution oriented and have a mentality that no issue is unsolvable.”
– The Legal 500 2025, Capital Markets
“I like their hands on approach, their pragmatic, solution-oriented way of working and their substantial experience, which means that they most likely have seen a specific situation or advised on a similar transaction before.”
– IFLR1000 2025, Capital Markets
“I appreciate the commercial mindset of the lawyers and their creativity when finding solutions that work for all stakeholders. The more complex, the more certain I am that I need to contact Roschier.”
– Chambers Europe 2025, Restructuring and Insolvency
“They have exceptional knowledge in the restructuring and insolvency area. Roschier is in my view one of the market leading specialists in terms of banking and financing and out-of-court restructurings and has a unique grasp of formal insolvency proceedings. In addition, the team is in my view market leading as adviser on the Nordic bond market which add substantial value in insolvency matters.”
– The Legal 500 2025, Insolvency
“Roschier demonstrates strong attention to detail and a clear ability to understand clients’ deeper needs – particularly when those needs extend beyond purely commercial considerations.”
– IFLR1000 2025, Restructuring and Insolvency
