Kees van de Meent > Florent > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Florent Offices
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GUSTAV MAHLERLAAN 1236
1081 LA AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Kees van de Meent
Work Department
Restructuring & Insolvency / Cross-border Asset Recovery
Position
Full range of restructuring and insolvency work, including advising companies in financial difficulty and acting as restructuring expert, observer, administrator or bankruptcy trustee. He also focuses on cross-border asset recovery cases, fraud litigation (prosecuting civil fraud claims) for companies, financial institutions, (foreign) insolvency practitioners and high-net-worth individuals.
Career
Kees started his career in 1991 at a law firm in Amsterdam. He joined Florent in 2017 as one of its founding partners. He co-heads the Restructuring & Insolvency team and also heads Florent’s Cross-border Asset Recovery team. He has over 30 years’ experience as an insolvency practitioner in a number of high-profile and complex cross-border insolvencies. He also acts as an adviser to companies in financial difficulty. He has extensive experience in pre-insolvency (WHOA) restructurings, both as counsel to the company and as a court-appointed official.
Languages
Dutch, English, Italian
Memberships
He is the exclusive Dutch member of ICC’s FraudNet. Kees is also an officer of the Asset Recovery Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of a sizeable family-owned company. He is a member of the Board of Delegates (College van Afgevaardigden) of the Netherlands Bar Association (NOvA) and a member of its Finance Committee. Finally, he is a member of INSOL International, INSOL Europe, INSOLAD and NVRII/NACIIL.
Education
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Fraud and white-collar crime
Florent
focuses on assisting clients with domestic and cross-border asset recovery cases, insolvency issues and civil fraud matters. The team is led by Kees van de Meent, an expert in insolvency law and international asset recovery who is often appointed by the court as receiver in large-scale bankruptcies. Financial fraud investigations are also prominent in the group’s workload, and the practice is also recognised for its strength in forensic IT matters.
Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading partners)The practice at Florent is noted for its ‘exceptional dedication’ to assisting its clients. The practice is well-placed to advise companies in financial distress on the remit of issues, including in WHOA proceedings, as well as to advise clients in bankruptcy proceedings. ‘Highly intelligent strategist’ Hanneke De Coninck helms the offering and has experience acting as court-appointed trustee in high-stakes insolvencies. At the team’s head alongside De Coninck is Kees van de Meent who advises in high-profile proceedings spanning the array of industry sectors and is ‘appointed in some of the biggest insolvencies in the Netherlands’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Netherlands > Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency Netherlands
- Fraud and white-collar crime Netherlands