Anker is a senior partner of the Financial Industry Group of the firm, practicing predominately in the area of Commercial Restructuring & Corporate with extensive experience in upper mid-market M&A work including in particular the sale and acquisition of underperforming companies, complex joint ventures, pre-bankruptcy strategy, restructuring companies, debt restructuring and related litigation.
Anker is one of the founding members of the French Division of the Turn Around Management Association (TMA), which he chaired until September 2007; and a member of the Editorial Board of the monthly publication “International Corporate Rescue”.
Anker gained extensive exposure and experience in the restructuring field after the publication of two of his books in English (Corporate Rescue Procedures in France and Director’s liabilities in case of insolvency) in 1996 and 1999. Over the years, a number of large foreign clients, for whom Anker worked on pure restructuring matters, also instructed him on transactional work and large cross border projects.