Riaz K. Janjuah|Linklaters

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Germany

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Banking

Overview

Riaz K. Janjuah is specialised in advising companies, lenders and investors on complex, often cross-border restructurings as well as national and international insolvencies. A particular focus of his work is on financial restructurings and refinancings as well as, distressed and special situations. He has been involved in key mandates that have shaped the restructuring practice in Germany. This includes the restructuring of large debtor companies by negotiation, through restructuring plans or by foreign restructuring instruments.

Riaz K. Janjuah has been ranked as a "Leading Partner" for Restructuring (Legal 500, 2025). He is listed as a "Leading Name" for Restructuring & Insolvency (Who's Who Legal, 2024).

"Very high professional competence and strong commitment. ", The Legal 500 Germany 2024.

Work Highlights

Adler Group: advising Adler Group S.A. and its subsidiaries on its financial restructuring, which included an amendment of certain bonds with a total amount of €3.2bn through an English restructuring plan and the provision of up to €937.5m in new funds.*
Orpea S.A.: advising on its financial restructuring, including its subsidiaries.*
hsh portfoliomanagement AöR: advising hsh portfoliomanagement AöR, the winding-up agency of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein, on the sale of its last large ship loan portfolio. [Awarded Marine Money Magazine's "Restructuring Deal of the Year 2022."]*
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.: advising Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and certain affiliates in their chapter 11 cases and restructuring negotiations in Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific.*
Banks: advising the two Super Senior RCF-Lenders, Bank of Ireland and NIBC, on the financial restructuring of the German headquartered Löwen Play Group, comprising an English law governed €40m Super Senior RCF and a New York law governed €350m Senior High Yield Bond.*
Steering Committee (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Commerzbank AG, Bayerische Landesbank and Norddeutsche Landesbank): advising the Steering Committee on the financial restructuring of Scholz AG, a leading international metal recycling company.*
Leading bank: advising a leading bank in the negotiations and documentation of the restructuring of a major German ship-owning and ship management company involving the financial restructuring of indebtedness exceeding €1bn.*

*References before joining Linklaters

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Beyond the Office

Riaz K. Janjuah has been a partner at Linklaters since 2024. Before joining Linklaters, he worked for many years as a partner in another leading international law firm.

He is a member of the Gesellschaft für Restrukturierung – TMA Germany e.V., INSOL Europe and the North German Insolvency Forum Hamburg e.V.

Education and Qualifications

Riaz K. Janjuah studied law at the University Hamburg and London School of Economics & Political Science.

He speaks German and English.

Thought Leadership

He is the author of numerous publications in the field of restructuring and insolvency.

StaRUG: Größerer Handlungsspielraum für die Praxis, RestructuringBusiness 2/2025, 16, (Co-Author: Julia Leitsch)
StaRUG erweitert Werkzeugkasten der Restrukturierung, Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel 9/2025, 13, (Co-Author: Julia Leitsch)
So gelingt die Sanierung bei drohender Unternehmensinsolvenz, A.Z. Pro Einspruch, 2025, (Co-Author: Julia Leitsch)
Fortgeltung der Limitation Language in der Insolvenz, RestructuringBusiness 1/2025, 15 (Co-Author: Julian Koch)
Rechtsentwicklungen im Insolvenzrecht 2024, DB 2024, Beilage 3, 63 (Co-Authors: Sabine Vorwerk, Julia Leitsch)
Fachfragen: Haben wir in Deutschland effektive Werkzeuge, die Unternehmen für den anstehenden Restrukturierungsbedarf nutzen können?, Der Betrieb 2024, (Co-Author: Sabine Vorwerk)

StaRUG, Commentary on the Law on the Stabilisation and Restructuring Framework for Companies, 2022, §§ 32, 42, and 58, (Co-Author: Jonas Tangermann)
Welcome back tax exemption for restructuring gains! in: ZInsO 2018, Issue 51-52, pp. 2790-2791, (Co-Author: Dirk Eisolt)

Overview

Work Highlights

Adler Group: advising Adler Group S.A. and its subsidiaries on its financial restructuring, which included an amendment of certain bonds with a total amount of €3.2bn through an English restructuring plan and the provision of up to €937.5m in new funds.*

Orpea S.A.: advising on its financial restructuring, including its subsidiaries.*

hsh portfoliomanagement AöR: advising hsh portfoliomanagement AöR, the winding-up agency of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein, on the sale of its last large ship loan portfolio. [Awarded Marine Money Magazine's "Restructuring Deal of the Year 2022."]*

Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.: advising Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and certain affiliates in their chapter 11 cases and restructuring negotiations in Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific.*

Banks: advising the two Super Senior RCF-Lenders, Bank of Ireland and NIBC, on the financial restructuring of the German headquartered Löwen Play Group, comprising an English law governed €40m Super Senior RCF and a New York law governed €350m Senior High Yield Bond.*

Steering Committee (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Commerzbank AG, Bayerische Landesbank and Norddeutsche Landesbank): advising the Steering Committee on the financial restructuring of Scholz AG, a leading international metal recycling company.*

Leading bank: advising a leading bank in the negotiations and documentation of the restructuring of a major German ship-owning and ship management company involving the financial restructuring of indebtedness exceeding €1bn.*

*References before joining Linklaters