Ferdinand is a Corporate Partner and specialises in international debt restructuring, corporate recovery and emergency funding strategies. His broad practice encompasses both high-stakes finance deals and insolvency-sensitive transactions or litigation, but always in a cross-border context.
Ferdinand is trusted advisor to boards of directors on their corporate governance, fiduciary duties and liability considerations around funding and scenario planning in a more stressed environment.
Ferdinand is a Fellow of INSOL International and a member of INSOLAD. He regularly publishes on restructuring and insolvency, leveraged financing and corporate recovery. Ferdinand heads our Africa practice and is a member of the firm’s Diversity committee.
Ferdinand’s recent work includes advising:
FrieslandCampina sells cream liqueur business to Wagram Equity Partners
De Brauw advises on unprecedented recognition of emergency regulation under U.S. Chapter 15
Rabobank and DLL sell Athlon Car Lease to Daimler AG for EUR 1.1 billion
Sweco and Grontmij to create Europe’s leading engineering consultancy
VION sells its Ingredients business to Darling International
17 December 2020
Temporary arrangements for payment deferral take effect to help companies hit by crisis
6 October 2020
6 October 2020
New Dutch scheme: the Act on Court Confirmation of Extrajudicial Restructuring Plans
16 September 2020
Cash is king – how the Dutch financing market is dealing with the impact of Covid-19
15 June 2020
27 May 2020
Flexible restructuring bill passes important first hurdle in Netherlands
14 April 2020
IFRS 16 and financing arrangements: from frozen GAAP to adjusted covenant levels
28 January 2020
14 November 2019
Borrowers: prepare for transition to alternative reference rates in your loan documents
8 July 2019
Details of new Dutch restructuring scheme published and submitted to Parliament
15 January 2019
Lawmakers to continue focus on facilitating business rescue in 2019
15 January 2019
18 January 2018
14 September 2017
Dutch procedure to bind non-consenting creditors to restructuring plans one step closer
27 June 2017
Reinout Vriesendorp and Ferdinand Hengst in ICLG – Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2017
3 November 2016
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