Mr Christiaan Zijderveld > Houthoff > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Houthoff Offices
GUSTAV MAHLERPLEIN 50
1082 MA AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Mr Christiaan Zijderveld
Position
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.
Languages
Dutch, English, German
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading individuals)Houthoff‘s restructuring and insolvency team has strong capabilities handling the broad range of matters for its clients, including advising on the complex restructuring schemes of multi-million euro companies; on suspension of payments matters; and on the distribution of high-value interest claims to high numbers of creditors in multi-party cases. At the team’s helm is ‘trusted partner and impressive negotiator’ Christiaan Zijderveld, who is well equipped to advise clients on the array of distressed situations. Frédéric Verhoeven
is another noteworthy practitioner in the team with a banking and finance specialism and particular experience in cross-border matters. David Heems is focused on the full-range of contentious work in relation to insolvencies, while senior associate Karien van Boekel is noted as being ‘a reliable expert in her field’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency Netherlands
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Environment and planning
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
Firm Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Energy
- EU and competition
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance and PFI
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Fintech