Mr Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn > AKD > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

AKD
PO BOX 59280
1040 KG AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Work Department

Restructurering & Insolvency.

Position

Partner

Career

Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn is a lawyer and partner at AKD with over thirty years of experience with insolvency and restructuring. He advises and represents banks in legal issues concerning attachments and executions, for example in disputes regarding the withdrawal of (group) financing, the execution sale of securities and disputes concerning joint and several liability. In addition Barend regularly represents as a lawyer directors and supervisory directors who have been held liable in law.

Barend regularly acts as bankruptcy trustee. Barend was involved as bankruptcy trustee of KPNQwest Finance, the financing company of the KPNQwest group, Internoc Holding, Bobel, Ring! Rosa Products, Reggehuys Groep and TAF Groep, which are funds which invest in European real estate.

Clients appreciate his specialist knowledge and the way in which he takes control. “He’s a great lawyer who has a lot of knowledge and he directs things very well.”

As the lawyer for Chubb Insurance Company of Europe SE Barend was involved in the directors’ liability proceedings during the bankruptcies of Jomed N.V. and Ceteco. As a lawyer he represented the interests of large creditors during bankruptcy proceedings involving DAF N.V. and Fokker N.V.

Memberships

Barend is a member of Insol and the Dutch insolvency specialists association Insolad.

Lawyer Rankings

Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency

(Leading individuals)

Barend de Roy van ZuidewijnAKD

The ‘practical, swift and experienced’ Rotterdam-based Fouad el Houzi is a key practitioner in AKD‘s ‘knowledgeable and committed’ restructuring and insolvency group, with particular expertise handling the array of related disputes including debt restructurings and corporate distress matters. The team is well equipped to act in high-profile bankruptcies for its varied portfolio of clients, and is headed up by Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn. Paul Peters and Thijs Hekman are also noteworthy members of the team.