Liedekerke advises creditors, debtors and candidate-buyers across a range of cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters, including both contentious and advisory instructions. Working closely with its M&A, banking, fraud and compliance practices, the team is equipped to advise clients across the aviation and broader transport sector, as well as telecoms, retail and insurance, on bankruptcy proceedings, judicial reorganisations, distressed M&A, director’s liability cases and asset tracing and recovery. Practice head Roel Fransis focuses on banking and insolvency law, with extensive litigation experience. Thijs Bermeulen covers insolvency, finance and corporate litigation matters.
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Key clients

  • InfraBuild Steel
  • Designetics Inc.
  • GrandVision Retail Holding
  • Grand Opticiens Belgium
  • LMR Partners
  • Proximus
  • NewCity Capital LLC
  • Tide Bus Danmark A/S
  • Busnor AS
  • P&V Verzekeringen CV

Work highlights

Advising InfraBuild Steel Australia in relation to an $18.8m claim brought against it before the Brussels Enterprise Court by the insolvency administrator of Liberty Ostrava A.S.
Advised SPDG on the recovery of its €2m claim from Walvert Invest.
Advised a Luxembourg consortium of companies on the potential acquisition of assets and activities in the context of the insolvency proceedings of Codic International.

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Practice head

Roel Fransis

Other key lawyers

Thijs Bermeulen