Derk van Geel
Partner
Expertise:
- insolvency law
- restructuring
- financing & securities
- default management
Derk van Geel is specialised in insolvency law. His areas of expertise include assisting companies that are faced with difficulties, restructuring debts or loans, restarts, and disputes with official receivers. He himself is also regularly appointed as an official receiver.
He furthermore focuses on assisting companies that have been passed to the bank’s Default Management department.
Derk has additional qualifications as a specialist in insolvency and financial economics. He is also a lecturer and regularly publishes articles.
Track records
Lawyer for the curators in the bankruptcies of MS Mode and Mexx, among others.
Advising and litigating with regard to the realization of a prominent hotel and a large number of apartments.
Receiver of the Escom group, a global concern with dozens of participating interests in real estate, oil and gas, infrastructure, energy and minerals, with a balance sheet total of EUR 793 million.