Michael Broeders

Michael Broeders is a partner in the Amsterdam Financial Institutions Group of Freshfields Bruck- haus Deringer LLP and focuses on restructuring, insolvency and related litigation. He advises on fi- nance and corporate transactions, both domestic and international, in a restructuring and insolvency context, often involving litigation on such issues as recognition of foreign insolvency procedures, director liability, security enforcement and fraudulent conveyance issues (both in civil and criminal law aspects). He also advises clients in distressed and crisis scenarios, and has developed special- ized knowledge of highly complex finance, restructuring and insolvency issues. Mr. Broeders was extensively involved in dealing with the effects of the financial crisis in the Netherlands, assisting various Dutch and international financial institutions in dealing with the fallout of the financial crisis. He also has extensive experience in the oil & gas sector and in constructing and engineering, as well as in telecom and real estate restructurings. Since 2015, he has been representing several         lenders in the bankruptcy of Royal Imtech N.V., one of the largest bankruptcies in the Netherlands in recent years. Mr. Broeders started back in 2001 focusing on corporate and restructuring work and related litigation. From 2004-05, he was seconded to the U.S. law firm Paul Weiss, where he worked on U.S. chapter 11 procedures and cases dealing with the recognition of foreign insolvency procedures in the U.S. It was on his return that he started to advise on finance transactions. In 2011, Mr. Broeders acted as Preadviseur for the Koninklijke Notari‘le Beroepsvereniging (Royal Dutch Notarial Association) and wrote the Preadvies entitled Notaris, Onderneming and Insolventie (No- tary, Company and Insolvency). He publishes regularly on corporate and insolvency law subjects for publications such as Ondernemingsrecht (the Dutch Journal of Company Law) and authored the 2014 and 2015 editions of the insolvency and restructuring publication in the series Getting the Deal Through. A Dutch native, Mr. Broeders studied at Leiden University and also speaks English and German.