Houthoff

Frédéric Verhoeven

Frédéric specialises in cross-border insolvency law and restructuring. He advises clients involved in an array of insolvency situations (companies, creditors, investments institutions and directors). Frédéric is also regularly appointed as a bankruptcy trustee and administrator by the district courts. In recent years, he has been engaged as a lawyer or bankruptcy trustee in international restructurings and bankruptcies in the Netherlands, including Lehman Brothers, Oi, OSX / OGX, SwissAir, Van der Hoop Bankiers, Joh, Enschedé and DSB Bank. Frédéric is the head of Houthoff’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice group. Frédéric teaches and publishes on insolvency law, and is a board member of the Dutch Association of Insolvency Practitioners (INSOLAD). He is also a member of the specialists’ association INSOL Europe and the International Insolvency Institute.

Christiaan Zijderveld

He assists clients that face financial difficulties. He also assists creditors (e.g. financial institutions and hedge funds) with distressed investments. Christiaan has been involved in the insolvency matters of Lehman Brothers Treasury Co B.V., Lehman Brothers Securities N.V. (Curaçao) and DSB Bank. In recent years, much of Christiaan's work has focused on cases relating to the real estate sector, the retail sector, and the oil & gas/offshore sector. Recently Christiaan led the Houthoff team that advises on the cross border restructuring of Agrokor, an Eastern European agri/food group. Christiaan leads the team that advises the committee responsible for drafting the Uniform Recovery Framework, a compensation scheme that allows Dutch SME's to be compensated for Interest Rate Derivatives they bought from the six largest banks in the Netherlands.

David Heems

David has a broad dispute resolution practice with a focus on commercial, finance and insolvency litigation, including proceedings in relation to directors' liability and annual accounts proceedings. He is regularly involved in cross-border restructurings, such as the litigation concerning Dümmen Orange, Steinhoff, Royal IHC, Oi and OSX. David is the co-chair of the Reorganisation and Workouts Committee of the International Bar Association. He is the co-author of a leading commentary on articles concerning the actio pauliana. David has been a lecturer on insolvency law at the University of Amsterdam for over ten years. He is also a senior lecturer at the Law Firm School.