Restructuring & insolvency
The lawyers in our team have extensive experience and expertise in restructuring and insolvencyissues. Our insolvency lawyers have a major advisory practice, in which the lawyers advise stakeholders in all kinds of such situations and trajectories on a daily basis. In addition, our lawyers are regularly appointed by courts, as bankruptcy receivers, administrators in moratoriums and as restructuring experts and observers in WHOA proceedings.
Our lawyers are among the best in their fields. They are specialist trained and members of the relevant specialist associations, such as Insolad, the Netherlands Restructuring Association (NVvH) and the Dutch Turnaround Association (DTA).
Specific knowledge is available in areas including shipping and logistics, installation engineering, construction, industry, retail, greenhouse horticulture, financial services, financing and securities, insurance and healthcare.
We think strategically and are proactive, practical and to-the-point.
Areas of expertise
Restructuring
Our lawyers are regularly called upon to advise (stakeholders of) companies in financial difficulties. Especially in the phase when the pressure is on, our advice can bring tranquility and insight.
Areas of expertise
Assessment and counselling of companies in difficulty
Acting as an observer or restructuring expert in WHOA proceedings
Counselling companies and stakeholders in WHOA proceedings
Out-of-court creditor agreements
Advising the company, directors or interested parties on restart processes
Financing and securities
Our lawyers assist (bank) financiers, entrepreneurs and creditors in advising on entering into new financing and restructuring existing ones. This includes related collateral and other arrangements.
Expertise
Advice to and on companies in difficulty
Financing conditions (including bridge, acquisition, corporate and shareholder financing)
Vesting, assessment and enforcement of rights in rem (pledges and mortgages)
Vesting, assessment and enforcement of personal security interests (guarantees and joint and several liability)
Retention of title
Liens, set-off and rights of suspension
Joint and several, group, surplus value, consortium and similar arrangements
Acting for respectively against banks and other financiers
Bankruptcy and suspension of payments
Our insolvency lawyers not only have extensive experience as advisers to stakeholders in bankruptcies and moratoriums, they are also regularly appointed as receivers or administrators in that context.
Expertise
Filing for bankruptcy and suspension of payments
Acting as receiver and administrator
Acting for and against receivers and administrators
Acting for and against directors, supervisory directors, shareholders and advisers
Acting for and against creditors, in particular suppliers and financiers
