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Olmo Weeshoff

Olmo Weeshoff

Senior Associate
I am impressed by the quality of Olmo's work, his thoroughness and his seamless availability.
— Senior VP, large energy-sector corporate
Amsterdam
About

Olmo Weeshoff provides legal advice on everything relevant to businesses in distress and their stakeholders, such as shareholders, the board of directors and financiers/creditors. He specialises in insolvency and corporate law. He incorporates thorough legal knowledge into a pragmatic and strategic approach.

Olmo is experienced in complex cross-border restructurings. He possesses in-depth knowledge on the WHOA pre-insolvency proceedings (the Dutch US Chapter 11 / UK Restructuring Plan) and has worked alongside clients on a wide array of WHOA cases.

He also frequently assists clients with distressed debt or M&A transactions, including asset acquisitions out of bankruptcy estates. Olmo furthermore advises clients on a broad variety of other restructuring matters, such as security rights (including enforcement scenarios), debt-for-equity-swaps, insolvency claw-back issues, corporate governance matters, strategic bankruptcies, orderly wind-downs, and directors'/shareholders' liabilities.

Olmo's clients include major corporates, banks, private equity houses, debt funds and real estate investment funds.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityRestructuring
Professional QualificationsAdvocaat admitted with the Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising a large corporate on the restructuring of publicly traded bonds and a distressed M&A transaction with a valuation in excess of USD10bn.
  • Advising a senior secured lender in one of the biggest WHOA restructurings to date.
  • Advising TriplePoint Capital on the complex cross-border restructuring and restart-out-of-bankruptcy of VanMoof, including various distressed debt, asset and equity transactions partly structure as a debt-for-equity swap.
  • Advising the largest secured creditor of Mercon Coffee in its parallel cross-border Chapter 11 and WHOA proceedings.
  • Advising the shareholder on the complex restructuring of the SecurCash group, including i.a. a strategic bankruptcy and an orderly wind-down process which involved negotiations with multiple large stakeholders as well as the Dutch Central Bank, as well as a distressed M&A process.
  • Advising JD Sports on the restructurings and bankruptcies of Aktiesport, Perry Sport and the Dutch Sprinter stores.
  • Advising a consortium of investors (including Invest-NL and Oost NL) on the (debt and equity) restructuring of LioniX International.
  • Advising UGI Corporation in respect of the solvent wind-down of DVEP Energy (De Vrije Energieproducent).
Languages
  • English
  • Dutch
Education
  • VU University Amsterdam, Corporate Restructuring, 2023

  • Maastricht University, LL.M. Dutch Law, 2016

  • Maastricht University, LL.B. European Law School, 2014

Publications

  • Mr. Frank van de Wakker, mr. Wilmy Westerhof en mr. Olmo Weeshoff, Zienswijze aan de Hoge Raad met betrekking tot de cassatie in het belang der wet inzake de Royal IHC WHOA, 2024
  • Mrs. Olmo Weeshoff en Christiane Kokol, Modulair bouwen en faillissement: een praktische handleiding voor de opdrachtgever, Tijdschrift voor Zakenrecht, 2024

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Young Insolvency Lawyers Association (Vereniging voor Jonge Insolventierecht advocaten)
  • Dutch Restructuring Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van Herstructurering)
  • INSOL Europe
  • Young M&A Community (MenA)
 

My latest insights

Event

Planning in parallel: Key trends in cross-border restructuring

17 October 2024 .2 minute read

Connect

Phone

+31 (0)20 5419 360
(Work)
+31 (0)6 1592 4823
(Mobile)
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