Restructuring/Insolvency
Europe Guide 2024 : Netherlands
Band 3
Contact number
+31 (0)10 26 17 500About
Provided by Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh
Co-led by one of the leading Dutch restructuring lawyers of recent decades in Marcel Windt and equally adept acting for creditors and debtors or appointed as administrator or bankruptcy trustee, Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh offers genuinely market-leading Dutch restructuring expertise.
The department’s credentials include acting for a group of lenders with a €750m interest in the €7bn restructuring of retail giant Steinhoff International; acting as bankruptcy trustee of KPNQwest in what was, at the time, the largest ever Dutch insolvency; and acting as liquidator of the last of the myriad Dutch Enron entities in the fallout from what was arguably the highest profile insolvency in recent history.
Alongside the leading restructuring boutiques and accountants, Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh’s lawyers have won some of the first high end mandates of applying the new Dutch Scheme (the Act on Confirmation of Extrajudicial Restructuring Plans).
Chambers Review
Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh is a Rotterdam-based law firm that acts on bankruptcy and restructuring processes. The law firm advises on shareholder issues and negotiations with creditors. Team members have experience acting as bankruptcy administrators. The team acts on the Dutch WHOA scheme.
Work Highlights
- Windt Le Grand acted as trustee on the insolvency of International Metal Trading.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Windt Le Grand is creative and attentive and has given good advice, I am happy with their services."
"Windt Le Grand team is flexible and can bring solutions to the table."
"Windt Le Grand is creative and attentive and has given good advice, I am happy with their services."
"Windt Le Grand team is flexible and can bring solutions to the table."
Notable Practitioners
Marcel Windt regularly acts as an administrator, assisting with issues such as asset liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings in high-value or politically sensitive cases.
"Marcel Windt is my go-to guy in the Netherlands, he is easy to work with and gets the deal done."
Ranked Lawyers at
Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh
Netherlands
Members
Provided by Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh
Babette Pronk
Ernst-Jan Griffioen
Floyd van Opstal
Job Bijloo
Head of Department
Mark Mouthaan
Michiel Bindels
Richard le Grand
Head of Department
Ruben Leeuwenburgh
Yvette Sevink