Mr Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn > AKD > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn
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)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency Netherlands
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
- Private equity
- Project finance and PFI
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Energy
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Tax