Tom Oliver Schorling advises financial institutions, funds and corporates on national and cross-border finance transactions.

He specializes in acquisition financings and the restructuring of complex financings usually involving several layers of debt including senior and mezzanine facilities as well as bond debt.

He has broad experience in all levels of the capital structure, the securitization of receivables and other structured finance transactions, distressed corporate acquisitions and disposals, non-performing loan (NPL) portfolios, banking regulatory and capital market law.

Bars and Courts
Rechtsanwalt, 1996

Education
Dr jur, Europe-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), magna cum laude, 1999
Second State Exam, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, 1995
LLM, King’s College London, 1993
First State Exam, University of Passau, 1992

Professional Associations and Memberships
International Bar Association

Awards and Recognition
Recommended lawyer:
Bank Finance & Restructuring and Insolvency,
JUVE 2010/11
IFLR 1000 2011
PLC Which Lawyer? 2011

Publications
Co-author, "UK Schemes of Arrangement: A Risk of Non-Recognition in Germany? (Schemes of Arrangement nach englischem Recht: Risiko der Nichtanerkennung in Deutschland?)", International Corporate Rescue, Issue 4, Page 239, 2010 (with Christian Pilkington and Ben Davies)
Co-author, "Germany: restructuring models, latest legislation and state aid", Corporate Restructuring: The Breaking Wave. Ed. Henry Gibbon and Quentin Carruthers. London, Page 109 et seq., 2009 (with Florian Brügel)
Co-author, "PIN Group: German courts take a practical approach to the insolvency of a group of German companies with a Luxembourg parent (PIN Gruppe: Die deutschen Gerichte wählen einen pragmatischen Ansatz zur Insolvenz von Konzerngesellschaften mit einer Luxemburger Holding)", International Corporate Rescue, Issue 6, Pages 330 et seqq., 2008 (with Gerd Biebinger and Thomas Pritchard)

Languages
German
English
Czech

Citizenship
Germany