INTRODUCTION Contributed by: Marcel Willems and Rowan Hamer, Fieldfisher Fieldfisher is a European law firm with more than 1,800 people across 24 international offices in 12 countries. As an entrepreneurial, pragmatic and so - cially conscious firm, Fieldfisher embraces its pur - pose as a trusted, client-focused corporate citizen. Fieldfisher’s office in the Netherlands, is in Amster - dam where a team of 25 lawyers and civil-law no - taries advise national and international clients on all types of legal, regulatory and compliance issues relevant to organisations in the Netherlands and the
EU. Fieldfisher’s Amsterdam team is highly special - ised in corporate and M&A, finance, regulatory, data protection, IT, intellectual property, insolvency, dis - pute resolution, employment law and notarial law. As part of its service, Fieldfisher Amsterdam advises and assists businesses and their management, or other parties confronted with (impending) insolvencies, on matters such as (cross-border) restructurings, direc - tors’ and officers’ liability, insolvency proceedings, and disputes with insolvency trustees.
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Marcel Willems is co-founder of Fieldfisher’s Amsterdam office, and is specialised in dispute resolution, commercial contracting, and restructuring and insolvency. He has been a trustee in bankruptcy for many
Rowan Hamer is an associate at Fieldfisher’s Amsterdam office. He focuses on commercial contracts, corporate disputes and restructuring and insolvency matters.
years and, besides being a lawyer, has served as a substitute judge at one of the four Courts of Appeal in the Netherlands for more than 25 years. His work varies from restructuring all sorts of businesses in a variety of sectors, from start-ups to multinationals, both high-tech and bricks-and-mortar companies, to acquiring assets or entire businesses out of insolvency, and assisting clients in directors’ and officers’ liability cases and litigating against insolvency trustees.
Fieldfisher Amsteldijk 220 1079 LK Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 225 2200 Email: Marcel.willems@fieldfisher.com; Rowan.hamer@fieldfisher.com Web: www.fieldfisher.com/en/locations/netherlands
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