Paul heads the firm’s Banking practice in Amsterdam, leading a team of lawyers who advise clients on complex domestic and cross-border finance deals. Paul acts for Dutch and international financial institutions and corporates on a range of finance transactions, with a focus on restructuring situations.
Paul has considerable knowledge of restructuring techniques, advising on some of the most defining restructurings in recent times. He advises corporates, sponsors and financial institutions on debt and equity restructurings, workouts, stressed and distressed reorganisations, insolvency and related litigation.
Paul spent six months on secondment to the firm’s London office in 2009, where he developed relationships with a range of London-based banks.
Paul has led on a significant number of major finance transactions and almost all restructuring and insolvency deals led by the Amsterdam office. Highlights of his experience include advising:
Paul regularly lectures on restructuring topics at the post-academic courses organised by the University of Nijmegen.
Paul’s published articles include:
Chapter on the Netherlands, The Restructuring Review, published by Law Business Research, annually since 2014
“The Insolvency of Van der Hoop Bankiers: EU banking law in action”, International Corporate Rescue, 2006
“Judicial Comity and Chauvinism: the need to go forum shopping in insolvency matters”, International Corporate Rescue, 2004
Paul studied law at the University of Groningen and for a postgraduate qualification in insolvency on a Grotius course at the University of Nijmegen.
He speaks Dutch and English.
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