Hanneke De Coninck > Florent > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Florent Offices
NOMA HOUSE
GUSTAV MAHLERLAAN 1236
1081 LA AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Hanneke De Coninck
Work Department
Insolvency and Restructuring, Banking and Finance, Litigation.
Position
Hanneke is co-managing partner of the firm and co-head of the Insolvency and Restructuring team. She also has extensive experience in the areas of banking, financing and security rights. Hanneke is regularly appointed by the Amsterdam court as bankruptcy trustee or administrator in high-profile and complex insolvencies. She also works for companies facing financial difficulties or insolvency or their stakeholders. In addition, she regularly represents clients in major (corporate/commercial) litigation inter alia on insolvency related matters such as directors’ and shareholders’liability. Hanneke has a seat on the Insolvency Law Committee of the Netherlands Bar Association (Adviescommissie Insolventierecht), a committee of the Netherlands Bar Association that advises the Minister of Justice on draft bills in the area of insolvency law. She also has a seat on the review committee (Toetsingscommissie) of the Dutch Association of Insolvency Lawyers (INSOLAD) that handles complaints against members and she is a member of the editorial staff of Tijdschrift voor Curatoren (Journal for bankruptcy trustees).
Career
Before BLIX was founded in 2009 and Florent was formed in 2017, she worked for many years at Van Doorne.
Languages
Dutch, English, Spanish
Memberships
INSOL International, INSOL Europe, INSOLAD (the Dutch Association of Insolvency Lawyers), NVRII/NACILL (the Netherlands Association for Comparative and International Insolvency Law) and Turnaround Management Association.
Education
Dutch Law, Maastricht University. Grotius Academie, post-doctoral course in Insolvency Law (INSOLAD). Specialist course Financial Economy for Insolvency Lawyers (INSOLAD).
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
Florent‘s restructuring and insolvency cohort is well equipped to handle complex bankruptcy proceedings for its array of well-known clients, for which the team often acts in cross-border matters. The practice is co-led by Hanneke De Coninck and Kees van de Meent; both are described as being ‘extremely skilled, straight to the point and pleasant to work with’ and both are also court-appointed insolvency trustees. Senior associate Joris Opstroom and disputes specialist associate Merijn Moeliker are noteworthy team members.