Debt Restructuring & Refinancing Advisory
Restructuring and refinancing stressed and over-levered balance sheets across the UK and UAE.
Image · Debt Restructuring & Refinancing AdvisoryDebt restructuring and refinancing advisory realigns a company’s liabilities when the existing capital structure no longer works — extending maturities, resizing debt, injecting new money and negotiating with lenders. Matchpoint advises borrowers, sponsors and lenders on consensual restructurings and refinancings across the UK and UAE, coordinating with insolvency counsel and running the process to a solution.
As part of our Debt practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents, and every debt mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.
The central mandate decision. Stabilise liquidity, establish a credible enterprise-value range and choose the restructuring path while sufficient options remain. All stakeholders need one verified view of cash, debt and recoveries.
What capital providers or counterparties will test
Thirteen-week cash flow, debt documents, covenant breaches, security, intercreditor position, business-plan credibility, asset values, stakeholder priorities and outcomes under enforcement.
How the mandate is structured
Options may include amend-and-extend, covenant reset, payment deferral, maturity extension, debt-for-equity, new money, asset sales or a consensual refinancing.
Execution priorities
Create a controlled information base, prioritise immediate liquidity actions, engage creditors through an agreed protocol and negotiate new money and existing debt as one capital solution.
Prepare before approaching the market
- Thirteen-week cash-flow forecast
- Debt, security and covenant schedule
- Integrated turnaround business plan
- Stakeholder and recovery analysis
Our role on debt restructuring & refinancing advisory mandates
- Maturity extensions, amend-and-extend and refinancing
- Debt resizing, haircuts and new-money injection
- Lender and stakeholder negotiation, standstills
- UK and UAE / GCC situations, borrower or lender side
Select transactions
Representative debt mandates led by Matchpoint partners.
Sell-side M&A of a distressed US trophy landmark hotel.
PBSA & commercial real estate PE fund — restructuring + placement.
Research relevant to this area
Original analysis and decision frameworks from the Matchpoint team.
Debt Restructuring & Refinancing Advisory — frequently asked questions
The renegotiation of a company’s debt — maturities, amounts, pricing and security — to restore viability when the current structure is unsustainable. It can be consensual (agreed with lenders) or implemented through a formal process such as a UK restructuring plan or scheme of arrangement.
Before a liquidity crisis, while options remain open. Early restructuring preserves value and negotiating leverage; leaving it until a payment default narrows the choices sharply.
Both — borrowers and sponsors seeking a workable structure, and lenders or credit funds protecting or recovering value, depending on the mandate.
Matchpoint originates senior, mezzanine, hybrid and structured debt from regional banks, international lenders and private credit funds, structured around your transaction. Tickets range from USD 5m to USD 500m+.
Private credit is non-bank lending from specialist funds, typically senior or unitranche, offering speed and flexibility. We maintain relationships with private credit funds active in the GCC and India.
Yes. We structure Sukuk and Shariah-compliant private credit, including blended structures pairing a Sukuk tranche with conventional debt.
Engagements ordinarily combine a retainer with a success fee. Terms are agreed in writing before work begins and calibrated to the mandate’s size, scope and complexity.
Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.
A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.
Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.
Matchpoint undertakes corporate finance, financing, M&A and fund-placement mandates from USD 5m upwards, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation, capacity and a written engagement. The partner team has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions.
Use the enquiry form, email contact@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.
Yes. Confidential information is handled under the engagement terms and any applicable non-disclosure agreement.
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