Private Equity

Early insight into risks

Identifying risks in a timely manner is critical to preventing value erosion. We map legal and financial signals – such as covenant pressure, forecast volatility and liquidity stress – at an early stage, enabling you to take corrective action in time. This enhances your strategic flexibility and strengthens your position in discussions with management and lenders.

Tailored strategic restructuring

When intervention becomes necessary, we support you in developing concrete restructuring scenarios. By combining legal expertise with strategic insight, we ensure that each option is not only legally sound, but also financially and operationally effective. Davids guides Private Equity parties in, among other things:

• analysing and optimising financing documentation;
• preparing parallel scenarios, including proceedings under the Dutch Scheme (WHOA);
• leading negotiations with lenders and other stakeholders;
• safeguarding governance and ensuring appropriate protection for directors;
• structuring business continuities, carve-outs and distressed transactions; and
• managing directors’ liability risks.

WHOA, amend-and-extend and going-concern sales

The Dutch Scheme (WHOA) as now become a well-established instrument in private equity restructurings. We deploy it both as a safeguard and as a strategic negotiation tool, where appropriate as part of a parallel process. In amend-and-extend negotiations and going-concern sale structures, we ensure that your contractual room, security interests and the negotiating positions of the parties involved are clearly mapped, enabling you to retain control in high-pressure situations.

Calm, clarity and decisiveness

Our approach is results-driven. With a single point of contact, short lines of communication and clear reporting, we bring structure and clarity precisely when speed is of the essence. This enables you to make well-informed decisions, manage risks, and both preserve and create value.