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150 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4EJ, United Kingdom
Tel +44 20 7606 8855 Fax +44 20 7606 4390
Firm profile
Addleshaw Goddard is a leading national law firm advising clients that include public sector bodies, FTSE350 companies and comparable organisations, institutions, successful businesses and private individuals on a wide range of legal needs. The firm is focused on delivering the highest-quality advice and excellent client service.
The Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team can handle any aspect of corporate restructuring and insolvency, providing both contentious and non-contentious advice in respect of formal and informal insolvency, including reorganisation and workouts. They advise on international and domestic insolvency matters and difficult cross-border issues for many of the big insolvency accountancy practices, banks, lenders and other stakeholders.
Louise Verrill
Head of Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Group
Email Louise.Verrill@addleshawgoddard.com
Louise Verrill is the national head of Addleshaw Goddard’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Group and a licensed insolvency practitioner. She has developed a wide national and international client base and has extensive knowledge and experience of corporate recovery work.
She advises on all aspects of insolvency-related matters, both contentious and non-contentious, including business restructure and turnaround. Her clients include banks, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, major corporations and venture capitalists.
Mrs Verrill is president of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA), the only wholly dedicated insolvency regulator in the United Kingdom, for 2005/6. She is the first lawyer and first woman to be appointed to this role, which follows her appointment as vice president last year. She is also a member of several other insolvency-related associations, including the Insolvency Lawyers Association (Council member), INSOL International (co-chairman of G36) and INSOL Europe (member of Executive Committee). Mrs Verrill was featured as one of the Nation’s "Hot 100" lawyers in The Lawyer in January 2005, in recognition of her status as a rising star in the London marketplace.
Emily Cope
Associate
Email Emily.Cope@addleshawgoddard.com
Emily Cope trained with Addleshaw Goddard and joined the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Group upon qualification in September 2004. She has experience in contentious corporate insolvency and bankruptcy, along with experience in commercial property, technology, and banking and fraud litigation. Much of her recent work has involved advising on the EU Insolvency Regulation.
Miss Cope was assisted by various members of INSOL in updating the Offshore chapter of this Guide and would like to thank Kim Corlett of the Isle of Man Treasury and Roger Harper of Roger & Co (Isle of Man)’ Pepe Canilla of Canillas (Gibraltar); and Jeremy Wessels of Ozannes (Guernsey).
Advokatfirman Vinge KB
Box 1703, 111 87 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel +46 8 614 30 00 Fax +46 8 614 31 90
Web www.vinge.se
Firm profile
Vinge is one of the largest law firms in Scandinavia and offers a full range of commercial legal services. Its offices are located in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Helsingborg, as well as in London, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Vinge is a member of the Scandinavian Law Alliance with Kromann Reumert in Denmark and Thommessen in Norway, and is the only Swedish firm in Lex Mundi, a global network for independent law firms.
Robert Wikholm
Partner
Email robert.wikholm@vinge.se
Robert Wikholm received a master of laws degree from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1980 and an LLM from King’s College London in 1981. After practising at the Stockholm District Court he joined Advokatfirman Vinge KB in London in 1983 and is now a partner, resident in Stockholm.
Mr Wikholm is a member of the Swedish Bar Association and a member of Vinge’s Bankruptcy and Liquidation Department. He has broad experience and specialist knowledge within the area of insolvency law, with a focus on company reorganisations, compositions and winding-up procedures, assisting both insolvent companies and their creditors. He is regularly appointed receiver in bankruptcies and administrator in company reorganisations. He also assists international investors with respect to risk assessments in conjunction with cross-border financing and financial support. Mr Wikholm is an active litigator in the field of insolvency and related matters, and lectures at Stockholm University in the field of creditor protection and financial support.
Liza Åberg
Associate
Email liza.aberg@vinge.se
Liza Åberg received her master of laws degree from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1999 and a bachelor of science from Uppsala University in 2001. She studied law at Albert-Ludvigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, from 1996 to 1997, served with the Stockholm District Court from 1999 to 2001 and is now a member of the Swedish Bar Association. She joined Advokatfirman Vinge KB as an associate in 2001 and is a member of Vinge’s Bankruptcy and Liquidation Department as well as the Corporate Finance Debt Department. She has been involved in company reorganisations, compositions and winding-up procedures, assisting both insolvent companies and their creditors. Her practice includes both litigation and commercial advice in these areas and within the area of financing.
Alecos Evangelou & Co
16 Kyriacos Matsis Avenue, Eagle House, 7th Floor, Nicosia, Cyprus
PO Box 29238, 1623 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel +357 22 879 999 Fax +357 22 879 990
Firm profile
The firm took over the legal practice established by one of its senior partners, Spyros A Evangelou, in 1991. It has become one of the country’s leading law firms in its areas of practice and specialisation, and enjoys an excellent reputation for providing quality legal services to both local and international clients – from public and private sector clients, including Cypriot regulatory authorities, to companies listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange, to Big Four accounting firms and major contracting companies. The firm’s areas of practice are divided into the broad categories of public law and private law, which are respectively headed by the two senior partners, Alecos C Evangelou and Spyros A Evangelou. The firm is based in Nicosia with associates in all other towns of Cyprus.
Spyros A Evangelou
Senior Partner
Email evangelou.advocates@cytanet.com.cy
Spyros Evangelou is a senior partner at Alecos Evangelou & Co. His areas of practice include company law (formation, planning, reorganisation, taxation, buying and selling, liquidations and receiverships) and related subjects. Mr Evangelou is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, London, and an advocate of the Supreme Court of Cyprus, and has spoken at various local and international seminars.
Sadovaya Plaza 11th Floor, 7 Dolgorukovskaya Street, Moscow 127006 Russia
Tel +7 095 787 27 00 Fax +7 095 787 27 01
Web www.bakernet.com
Firm profile
Baker & McKenzie has provided sophisticated legal advice to the world’s most dynamic global enterprises for more than 50 years. Active in the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for almost 40 years, with offices in Almaty, Kyiv, Moscow and St Petersburg, it now has one of the largest legal practices in the CIS, offering expertise on all aspects of corporate law, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, as well as banking and finance, securities and capital markets, venture capital, competition law, tax and customs, real estate and construction, labour and employment, intellectual property and dispute resolution.
Carol Patterson
Partner
Email carol.patterson@bakernet.com
Carol Patterson is a partner of Baker & McKenzie’s Moscow office. She obtained a BA and an LLB from Dalhousie University, Halifax, and completed graduate work in Russian history at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University of London. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie’s Moscow office in 1990, Ms Patterson practised exclusively in the area of insolvency law for six years in a Toronto law firm. In Moscow, her practice includes mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and mining law.
Mikhail Turetsky
Associate
Email mikhail.turetsky@bakernet.com
Mikhail Turetsky is an associate of Baker & McKenzie’s Moscow office. He graduated in law from Novosibirsk State University in 2001, and received an LLM in international business and commercial law from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, in 2003. Mr Turetsky specialises in banking and finance law, including debt finance, equity finance and bankruptcy and insolvency issues. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, he served as in-house counsel to a private company in Novosibirsk, Russia, and was president of the National Committee of the International Association of Students in Economic and Business Management in Moscow.
Millennium Business Center 5th Floor, 12a Volodymyrska Street, 01025 Kyiv, Ukraine
Tel + 380 44 490 7070 Fax +380 44 490 6787
Serhiy Chorny
Partner
Email serhiy.chorny@bakernet.com
Serhiy Chorny is a partner in the Kyiv office of Baker & McKenzie, specialising in banking and finance, securities, secured transactions, and dispute resolution and litigation. The 2005 edition of Ukrainian Law Firms: A Handbook for Foreign Clients highly recommends Mr Chorny for banking and finance work in Ukraine. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie in 1993, he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Mr Chorny graduated from the International Law Department of the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University with honours in 1987 and received his PhD in law from the Institute of State and Law in 1992. He received his LLM from Essex University, England, in 1994. In 1993 Mr Chorny studied at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. In addition to his native Ukrainian, Mr Chorny speaks fluent English and Russian. He is admitted to practice in Ukraine.
Bojovic & Dasic, Attorneys at Law
Makedonska 30/ IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Tel +381 11 3302 100 Fax +381 11 3302 101
Web www.pwc.com/yu
Firm profile
Bojovic & Dasic, Attorneys at Law is a modern legal practice which has been involved in many of the leading commercial and privatisation transactions taking place in Serbia.
Its legal consultants have an international education, practical experience and an excellent understanding of the local legislation and business environment, enabling them to offer a wide variety of services and solutions.
The firm’s associated relationship with PwC enables it to combine its work with the work of auditors, accountants and tax professionals, creating a powerful synergy that allows it to deliver integrated business solutions.
Marija Bojovic
Partner
Email marija.bojovic@yu.pwc.com
Marija Bojovic is a partner of Bojovic & Dasic, Attorneys at Law. After completing her secondary education in the United States, Ms Bojovic obtained an LLB from Belgrade University, graduating in 1996. She obtained an LLM in international business law from the Central European University (Budapest) in 2000. She is a member of both the Belgrade Bar and the Serbia and Montenegro Bar. Her areas of particular experience include foreign investment, privatisations, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and international commercial arbitration.
Erottajankatu 5A, PO Box 233, 00131 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358 9 228 581 Fax +358 9 601 961
Web www.castren.fi
Firm profile
Castrén & Snellman provides the highest-quality legal expertise and solutions. Its full-service concept allows it to provide legal services in all fields of business. Its continued success is based on high-quality expertise, values and traditions dating back to 1888.
The firm has been involved in several of Finland’s largest bankruptcy and corporate restructuring proceedings in recent years. In an insolvency proceeding, the focus should always be on timely risk management and utilising the principles of good corporate governance. The aim is to provide solutions designed both to support the survival of distressed companies and to protect clients against their business partners’ insolvency. In addition to bankruptcy and corporate restructuring proceedings, Castrén & Snellman also deals with liquidation and execution processes.
Pekka Jaatinen
Managing Partner
Email pekka.jaatinen@castren.fi
Pekka Jaatinen is the managing partner of Castrén & Snellman, the oldest and one of the leading commercial law firms in Helsinki, Finland.
Throughout his career he has specialised in corporate, securities and insolvency law. His practice is focused on the representation of institutional, high-yield and distressed debt investors, and debtors in complex workout and insolvency matters. In recent years he has been involved in large insurance transactions, both in Finland and abroad. He has acted as the trustee and administrator of several large Finnish bankruptcy estates and in restructuring proceedings (Chapter 11). He is a board member of several domestic and international companies.
Mr Jaatinen has lectured in Finland as well as abroad on cross-border insolvency and Finnish restructuring legislation. He is a co-author of several books, including Rescue of Companies, Directors’ Liabilities in Case of Insolvency.
He is a member of the Finnish Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the International Insolvency Institute, among others.
Mr Jaatinen received his LLM from the University of Helsinki in 1983. He is fluent in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Sami Rautiainen
Associate
Email sami.rautiainen@castren.fi
Sami Rautiainen specialises in mergers and acquisitions and insolvency. Mr Rautiainen has participated in the administration of bankrupt estates and in a number of publication projects as a member of Castrén & Snellman’s insolvency group, and also gained experience in insolvency matters during his previous employment and court practice. As a member of Castrén & Snellman’s M&A group, he has participated in several transactions involving both Finnish and international companies.
Clifford Chance LLP
10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 5JJ, United Kingdom
Tel +44 20 7006 1000 Fax +44 20 7006 5555
Firm profile
Clifford Chance LLP is a major international law firm with offices in all the world’s principal financial centres. The Restructuring and Insolvency Group is itself a cross-border practice of high repute and has in the recent past been involved in a very large number of the major financial restructurings/insolvencies in Europe, the United States and Asia.
Mark Hyde
Partner
Email Mark.Hyde@CliffordChance.com
Mark Hyde is a partner at Clifford Chance LLP and is head of the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Group. As well as being a licensed insolvency practitioner, he is a member and former president of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and a member of the City of London Law Society Insolvency Committee. Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Mr Hyde has worked on a number of high-profile insolvencies and restructurings in both Europe and Asia including, in the recent past, PrimaCom, Treofan, Polestar, British Energy, Kirch, NTL, Cablecom, Ilford Imaging Group and Jarvis.
Adrian Cohen
Partner
Email Adrian.Cohen@CliffordChance.com
Adrian Cohen is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Finance practice in London. He specialises in all aspects of domestic and international corporate reconstruction and insolvency law, including advice on securitisation and structured finance transactions, negotiation of standstill, inter-creditor and security documentation, schemes of arrangement and company voluntary arrangements, advising on counterparty risk, close-out and netting arrangements, security enforcement, asset realisation, insolvency proceedings, directors’ duties and office holders’ duties.
Clifford Chance Janicka, Namiotkiewicz i wspólnicy, sp.k.
Norway House, Lwowska 19, 00-660 Warsaw, Poland
Tel +48 22 627 1177 Fax +48 22 627 1466
Firm profile
The Warsaw office of Clifford Chance, set up in 1992, is one of the leading international law firms in Poland. It employs over 40 lawyers, including five lawyers forming the insolvency practice who have been involved in a number of bankruptcy proceedings and restructuring matters, representing shareholders, debtors, creditors and investors interested in taking over bankrupt businesses. The most significant examples include Stalexport, Netia, Szczecin Shipyard, Elektrim and Wirtualna Polska. The insolvency and restructuring practice of Clifford Chance Warsaw is recommended by PLC Which Lawyer, the legal directory.
Jan Zdzienicki
Senior Lawyer
Email Jan.Zdzienicki@CliffordChance.com
Jan Zdzienicki is a senior lawyer in the Banking and Finance Department of Clifford Chance Warsaw. He has a master of laws degree from Warsaw University and a doctorate in law from the Central European University and ELTE Law School in Budapest. His insolvency and restructuring practice includes commercial and transactional advice as well as insolvency-related litigation. He has represented banks, financial institutions and corporate clients in most of the major insolvencies and restructurings in Poland, covering, among others, restructuring projects relating to eurobonds issued by Polish companies (including Elektrim and Stalexport), debt-equity swaps, loan restructurings, insolvency proceedings and debt collection matters. He is the author of several publications and contributes to Collier International Business Insolvency Guide.
Bredgade 49, PO Box 9007, DK-1260 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel +45 33 17 99 00 Fax +45 33 17 99 01
Web www.dania-law.dk
Other offices Copenhagen, Svendborg, Moscow, Nuuk (Greenland), Torshavn (Faroe Islands)
Firm profile
DANIA Law Firm is an international, business-oriented law firm with extensive experience in corporate restructuring and other insolvency proceedings involving all types of businesses, from listed companies to single proprietors. It takes a hands-on approach and gives high pri-ority to company rescues, to the advantage of creditors and staff alike.
Anna Gentzschein
Attorney at Law
Email age@dania-law.dk
Attorney at law Anna Gentzschein is originally from Sweden and obtained her law degree from Stockholm University. Her main areas of practice include corporate restructuring, construction and real estate development, M&A transactions, establishment and structuring of business enterprises and other areas of business law.
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
64-66 Avenue D’Iena, 75116 Paris, France
Tel +33 1 53 57 71 71 Fax +33 1 53 57 71 70
Firm profile
Founded in 1993, De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is one of the leading independent French law firms in the field of business law.
Its 75 lawyers, 16 of whom are partners, practise in the following areas: banking, finance and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, competition/antitrust, insolvency and restructuring, real estate and real estate finance, insurance, public law and environment, tax, labour law, litigation and arbitration, intellectual property/information technology.
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei’s partners have substantial cross-border expertise. The firm advises French and foreign multinational companies in both domestic and transnational transactions.
Jacques Henrot
Partner
Email henrot@de-pardieu.com
Jacques Henrot, a graduate of Paris University Law School and Harvard Law School (1976), is the head of the firm’s bankruptcy and reorganisation team. He also acts as coordinator between the bankruptcy team and the asset-backed financings and litigation teams.
He represents banks, lease finance and factoring institutions and creditors in general, as well as bond holders and issuers, in both national and international insolvency proceedings.
Mr Henrot is a member of the Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises, a think-tank set up in 2002 to advise French decision makers on the pending reform which should lead to the introduction of a new Bankruptcy Code in 2005. He is a regular contributor to French publications such as La Tribune and Les Echos.
For the purpose of preparing the French chapter of the European Restructuring and Insolvency Guide, Mr Henrot was assisted by Joanna Gumpelson.
Deutsche Bank AG, London
Winchester House, 1 Great Winchester Street, London, EC2N 2DB, United Kingdom
Tel +44 20 7547 5575
Stelios Manetas
Head of Restructuring Services, Europe
Trust & Securities Services
Email stelios.manetas@db.com
Stelios Manetas is the head of the Restructuring Services group in Europe for Deutsche Bank’s Trust & Securities Services business. He has been with Deutsche Bank since 1998 and prior to that worked for JP Morgan. He worked in several other areas of Deutsche Bank before specialising in debt restructuring.
Mr Manetas was instrumental in setting up the Restructuring Services group within Trust & Securities Services, and has worked with various dealer managers, law firms and financial advisers on transactions across multiple jurisdictions, including many ‘firsts’ for companies in Germany, France and Scandinavia. He has extensive experience of many types of restructuring, including debt-equity swaps, buy-backs, Brady Bond exchanges, terms restructurings, solicitations, special purpose vehicle structures, modified Dutch auctions, tender offers and schemes of arrangement.
Mr Manetas has a bachelors degree in marketing management and a masters in communications and technology. He speaks Greek, Italian and French in addition to English.
Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov
10 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel +359 2 932 1100 Fax +359 2 980 3586
Web www.dgkv.com
Firm profile
Founded in 1994, with over 42 fully qualified lawyers Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov is now the largest and one of the most prominent firms on the Bulgarian legal market, with a strong emphasis on foreign investments. The firm has extensive experience in the restructuring and insolvency area, including representation of clients in insolvency proceedings, assistance in devising and implementing restructuring plans, and legal advice in relation to the provision of new funding. Recent involvements include advising a major Bulgarian textile manufacturer in devising and implementing a restructuring and rehabilitation plan, and representing Malev Hungarian Airlines as the creditor of Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, the former national airline carrier, in bankruptcy proceedings.
Lilia H Kisseva
Senior Associate
Email lilia.kisseva@dgkv.com
Lilia Kisseva is a senior associate in Djingov, Gouginski, Kyutchukov & Velichkov’s corporate and M&A practice group. She graduated with an LLB from Sofia University and with an LLM in international business law from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Ms Kisseva deals with all aspects of corporate law including corporate restructuring, where her practice includes both litigation and transaction advice. She has also been active in the workouts and insolvency area: recent experience includes the representation of distressed Bulgarian companies in insolvency proceedings and the provision of advice on devising a strategy and implementing a restructuring and rehabilitation plan.
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP
3 Noble Street, London EC2V 7EE, United Kingdom
Tel +44 8700 111 111 Fax +44 20 7796 6666
Web www.dlapiper.com
Firm profile
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary is a global legal services organisation with offices across Europe, Asia and the United States. Over 2,800 lawyers across 49 offices and 18 countries provide a broad range of legal services through its global practice areas. The Business Support & Restructuring Group has over 100 fee earners in the Europe and 140 fee earners in the United States.
The firm is relationship-driven and built to meet the ongoing legal needs of clients, wherever they choose to do business. Culturally attuned to the business demands and legal requirements of a particular country or state, and with an award-winning Client Relationship Management Programme, it constantly strives to find new and better ways of doing things so its clients can benefit.
Simon Neilson-Clark
European Head of Business Support & Restructuring Group
Email simon.neilson-clark@dla.com
Simon Neilson-Clark is the European head of DLA’s Business Support & Restructuring group, one the largest groups of dedicated restructuring recoveries lawyers in Europe.
He acted as bankruptcy counsel to the directors of Worldcom and is also respected for the work that he carries out for UK-based banks, heading up a team which provides more legal services to the majority of the UK clearing banks than any other law firm.
Mr Neilson-Clark recently advised PricewaterhouseCoopers in their role as administrative receivers/administrators of the Box Clever Group, one of the highest-profile failings in Western Europe.
His group is also involved in advising providers of bonding lines to the Jarvis Group as part of its multifaceted restructuring and workout. This workout is the highest-profile in the United Kingdom at the current time.
Mr Neilson-Clark acted on behalf of Barclays Bank and GMAC in connection with the Daisytek matter, currently one of the leading cases on European insolvency.
DLA Weiss-Tessbach
Rotenturmstrasse 13, A-1010, Vienna, Austria
Tel +43 1 531 78 0 Fax +43 1 533 52 52
Firm profile
DLA Weiss-Tessbach is a full-service commercial law firm which was established in 1878 in Austria. Since 1989 the firm has undergone a dynamic expansion across Central and Eastern Europe, growing from 15 to over 90 lawyers and from one to seven offices in Vienna, Salzburg, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Zagreb and Sarajevo. It will continue to expand in the Central and Eastern European region as countries adjust to EU membership.
The firm is part of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, a global legal services organisation with more than 2,800 lawyers in 18 countries across Europe, Asia and the United States.
Under the umbrella of the DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Group, cooperating law firms in Denmark, Norway, Poland and Sweden complete its global offering.
Stefan Eder
Regional Managing Partner
Email stefan.eder@dlapiper.com
Stefan Eder studied law and business informatics. He has been admitted as an Austrian attorney in Vienna since 1992, and as a foreign attorney in the since 1997 and in Hungary since 1999. He has longstanding experience in (cross-border) restructuring and insolvency law, mergers and acquisitions, as well as in financing and infrastructure projects with cross-border elements in Central and Eastern Europe. He regularly advises international clients of all backgrounds and commercial sectors.
Mr Eder has been a partner with DLA Weiss-Tessbach since 1992 and heads the Central and Eastern Europe Projects & Finance Group. As the regional managing partner of DLA Weiss-Tessbach, he coordinates the firm’s offices in Austria, Hungary, the , Slovakia, Croatia and Bosnia.
DLA Weiss-Tessbach Horváth & Partners
Alkotás u 50, Alkotás Point Bldg, H-1123 Budapest, Hungary
Tel +36 1 325 3020 Fax +36 1 325 3021
Firm profile
Horváth & Partners in conjunction with DLA Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH is part of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, a global legal services organisation with offices across Europe, Asia and the United States.
The firm advises small and medium-sized enterprises as well as leading international and domestic industrial groups, service providers, banks and other financial institutions and private individuals. Its lawyers have first-hand experience in meeting the challenges of developing businesses in Hungary.
The firm has strengthened its core areas of expertise (corporate, banking, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, real estate finance, general commercial, intellectual property, labour law and litigation), and has expanded into other areas of law (administrative, telecoms, technology, venture capital). It has an excellent reputation for its ability to handle cross-border transactions
Helga Fehér
Partner
Email helga.feher@dlapiper.com
Helga Fehér is a partner in the Commercial Group of the Budapest office of Horváth & Partners DLA Weiss-Tessbach. She graduated with a BA (German studies) and an LLB from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her practice includes both litigation and transactional advice on general commercial matters (including purchase, lease, outsourcing, public utility and standard term agreements), labour law issues (including individual and collective agreements and internal policies), and corporate restructurings (large-scale redundancies, bankruptcy and liquidation procedures).
Gábor Molnár
Senior Associate
Email gabor.molnar@dlapiper.com
Gábor Molnár is a senior associate in the Corporate Group of the Budapest office of Horváth & Partners DLA Weiss-Tessbach. He graduated with an LLB from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and obtained his LLM from the University of Bristol and an MJur from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. His areas of experience include mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN United Kingdom
Tel +44 20 7338 7956 Fax +44 20 7338 6150
Web www.ebrd.com
Mahesh Uttamchandani
Insolvency Counsel
Email uttamchm@ebrd.com
Mahesh Uttamchandani is insolvency counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He graduated with a BA from Queen’s University and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining the EBRD, he practised exclusively in the areas of insolvency, restructuring and commercial litigation with ThorntonGroutFinnigan LLP, one of Canada’s leading insolvency and restructuring firms. He has also been an instructor at Osgoode Hall Law School and served as a law clerk to the Office of the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario, spending a significant amount of time clerking for judges in the bankruptcy and commercial court.
European Commission
Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry
Rue de la Loi 200, 1049-Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32 2 299 11 11 Fax +32 2 296 67 28
Web europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/enterprise/index_en.htm
Horst Reichenbach
Director General
Email Horst.Reichenbach@cec.eu.int
Horst Reichenbach was appointed director general of the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry in 2004. He studied mathematics and economics in Hamburg and Kiel, and then did a PhD in growth economics while working as a scientific officer. He joined the European Commission in 1975. After 11 years in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs and in two different cabinets, he became head of unit in the Directorate General for the Coordination of Structural Instruments, and then deputy head of cabinet for Commissioner Narjes. He followed this by a spell as head of division in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, subsequently becoming a director in the Directorate General for Budget and then head of cabinet of Mrs Wulf-Mathies. Mr Reichenbach served as director general in the Directorate General for Consumer Policy and Health until 1999, and occupied the same post in the Directorate General for Personnel and Administration until 2004.
Sonia Herrero Rada
Email Entr-Entrepreneurship@cec.eu.int
Sonia Herrero Rada works in the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, Entrepreneurship Unit, in the areas of restructuring, bankruptcy and fresh starts. She obtained her law degree and a masters in tax consulting from the University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain. Ms Herrero Rada worked as a legal adviser and tax consultant in Mr Simón Acosta Lawyer’s Office, Pamplona, Spain, and was subsequently assistant to the director of Virto Deep-frozen Foods Ltd, Azagra, Spain. She joined the European Commission in 2002. Her areas of particular experience are legal advice to small and medium-sized enterprises, direct taxation and bankruptcy law.
Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios
C/ José Abascal, 45, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Tel +34 91 514 52 00 Fax +34 91 399 24 08
Other offices Brussels, Lisbon (Garrigues, Leónidas Matos SC) and New York
Firm profile
Founded in 1941, Garrigues is Spain’s leading law firm, with more than 1,300 fee earners.
Its main pillars are quality and service, combined with a commitment to finding the most appropriate solutions to meet each client’s needs. As an independent firm in an increasingly competitive environment, its success depends solely on client satisfaction, and its distinctive features are quality and efficient delivery.
The firm boasts the most highly regarded and largest multidisciplinary professional team in Spain, as well as the largest office network in the country, delivering solutions in every sector of the business world.
Antonio Fernández
General Partner
Email antonio.fernandez.rodriguez@garrigues.com
Antonio Fernández is a general partner of Garrigues; he is also a partner in the Litigation and Arbitration Department and managing partner of the Restructuring and Insolvencies Division.
Over the past 20 years, Mr Fernández has represented Spanish and foreign companies in settlement, corporate/commercial, real estate and construction proceedings, both before the courts and in arbitration. As a restructuring and insolvency specialist, he has acted in many of Spain’s most important transactions. Most recently, he represented debtors with liabilities of €450 million.
Mr Fernández’s wide practical experience is complemented by his in-depth knowledge of legal theory. He has lectured in private international law and commercial law at Madrid Complutense University, and has also acted as a mentor for Spanish judges.
He has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences, and is the author of various collective works such as Enforcement of Money Judgments Abroad, Comentarios a la Ley Concursal and Responsabilidad de consejeros y altos cargos de sociedades de capital.
Borja García-Alamán de la Calle
Associate
Email borja.garcia-alaman@garrigues.com
Borja García-Alamán is an associate of Garrigues, working in the Restructuring and Insolvencies Division. He obtained his law degree from San Pablo University and has a masters in corporate legal consultancy from Centro de Estudio Garrigues. He has acted for Spanish and foreign clients in many major insolvency proceedings, and has extensive experience in litigation before the lower and higher courts. An expert on insolvency legislation, he has authored various chapters in the collective work Comentarios a la Ley Concursal, and has spoken at universities and in business circles.
Juan Verdugo
Practising lawyer
Email juan.verdugo.garcia@garrigues.com
Juan Verdugo is a senior attorney in Garrigues’ Litigation and Arbitration Department and its Restructuring and Insolvencies Division, from which he advises international and local clients on a daily basis. He obtained his law degree from the University of Valladolid (1998) and is a member of the Bar Association, admitted to practice throughout the Spanish nation and before high and low-level courts. Mr Verdugo has also completed two years of the juris doctor degree (2003), specialising in procedural law. He is the author of several investigatory studies on procedural and constitutional law and has collaborated on legal articles with various prestigious publications (eg, Thomson-Aranzadi, General Council of the Spanish Judiciary). He recently graduated from the Bar Association of Madrid’s Insolvency Law Course (2005).
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners
Via Quattro Fontane 20, 00184 Rome, Italy
Tel +39 06 478 751 Fax +39 06 487 1101
Web www.gop.it
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With almost 300 professionals, Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners is Italy’s largest commercial law firm, combining domestic capability with global expertise.
In 2004, in recognition of its strong domestic and international practice, it scooped two prestigious awards: both Chambers Global and IFLR named it Italian Law Firm of the Year.
Its dedicated Restructuring and Insolvency Group comprises lawyers with the depth of expertise and market experience to assist debtors and creditors in reorganisation cases, as well as other matters and transactions arising out of insolvency procedures.
The firm also represents investment funds and other investors in acquisition and turnaround transactions of financially troubled companies.
Antonio Auricchio
Partner
Email aauricchio@gop.it
Antonio Auricchio is a partner in the Litigation and Restructuring & Insolvency Department of the Rome office of Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners. He graduated with a JD from Naples University and studied at South Western Legal Foundation, Dallas, United States. His areas of particular experience are insolvency law, restructuring and reorganisations, as well as commercial and corporate matters and domestic and international arbitration. His practice includes both litigation and the provision of commercial/transactional advice to domestic and multinational corporations in these areas.
Rita Gismondi
Associate
Email rgismondi@gop.it
Rita Gismondi is an associate in the Litigation and Restructuring & Insolvency Department of the Rome office of Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners. She graduated with a JD from Rome University in 1997. Her practice areas are insolvency law, restructuring and reorganisations, as well as commercial and corporate matters.
Zürichbergstrasse 66, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel +41 43 268 83 00 Fax +41 43 268 83 01
Web www.hmp.ch
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Hartmann Müller Partners was established in 1983. It provides a full range of legal services, with an emphasis on business and corporate law, and conducts work in German, English and French. The firm boasts advanced office automation systems, with access to national and international databases in the legal and economic fields. It benefits from an extensive network of correspondent national and international law firms.
Dr Niklaus B Müller
Partner
Email muellern@hmp.ch
Niklaus B Müller is a partner in Hartmann Müller Partners’ Zurich office. He graduated with a doctorate in law from the University of Berne and with an LLM from Boalt Hall (University of California at Berkeley, United States). His practice focuses on litigation and arbitration in insolvency matters (eg, representation of creditors in filing actions for admission to the schedule of claims; representation of the trustee; defending orders against admission to the schedule of claims; filing or defending actions to include assets in or exclude assets from the estate; representing creditors on the creditors’ committee; acting as deputy liquidator; enforcing and defending claims arising out of directors’ and officers’ or auditors’ liability), as well as in various other fields of business law.
Elizabetes Str 15, Riga, Latvia, LV-1010
Tel +371 781 48 48 Fax +371 781 48 49
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Klavins & Slaidins was established in 1992 and now has 16 lawyers in all, making it one of the largest law firms in Latvia.
The firm’s international practice is enhanced by its membership of Lex Mundi, the network of leading law firms in jurisdictions all over the world. Klavins & Slaidins is also a member of LAWIN, a group of leading Baltic law firms including Lepik & Luhaaar in Estonia and Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiunas ir partneriai in Lithuania.
The firm’s general area of practice is business/commercial law. It provides legal consultation and advice to international clients coming to Latvia from all over the world, as well as experienced guidance for local Latvian clients.
Daiga Zivtina
Attorney at law
Email daiga.zivtina@klavinsslaidins.lv
Daiga Zivtina is a lawyer with Klavins & Slaidins. She obtained her LLB and LLM from the University of Latvia, and a second LLM from the University of California, Los Angeles. She handles civil and administrative litigation cases, corporate restructuring and insolvency matters. Her areas of particular expertise include corporate dispute resolution and settlement, arbitration and mediation, general corporate advice and labour law. In 2003 she assisted the Latvian Gas Company and the foreign investor of another energy supply company in winning a considerable damages award from the Latvian government, in both cases through arbitration in the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
Janis Likops
Lawyer
Email Janis.likops@klavinsslaidins.lv
Janis Likops is a lawyer with Klavins & Slaidins. He graduated with a BSE and LLB from the University of Latvia. He has particular experience in consumer rights, advertising rights and administrative (public) rights. Most recently, he has been working on a team representing a large pharmaceutical company undergoing insolvency.
Kyriakides–Georgopoulos
268, Kifissias Ave, 152 32 Halandri, Athens, Greece
Tel +30 210 817 1500 Fax +30 210 6856 657
Web www.kglawfirm.gr
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Kyriakides–Georgopoulos is a leading Greek law firm, providing in-depth expertise across the spectrum of business law. Its practice areas include corporate/commercial (including mergers and acquisitions and privatisations); banking and finance (including capital markets and securities regulation); dispute resolution; competition; communications and media; energy and environmental; labour; maritime; and real estate. Kyriakides–Georgopoulos currently has offices in Athens, Salonica and Piraeus, where approximately 55 lawyers – 10 of whom are partners – offer their legal services and expertise to clients in Greece and abroad.
Konstantinos G Vouterakos
Partner
Email kvouterakos@kglawfirm.gr
Konstantinos G Vouterakos studied law at the University of Athens Law School and obtained his LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1989. His practice includes banking and securities regulation; telecommunications and postal law; information technology; and antitrust law. He has worked on various initial public offerings and combined international offerings. His most recent experience includes innovative projects such as the listing of two major Greek banks on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange, the first exchangeable bond issue in Greece and the first Greek securitisation project. He advises several foreign and Greek telecommunications operators on regulatory and commercial matters. He has also advised and assisted Greek and foreign companies on local competition matters involving merger control, joint ventures and vertical agreements. His practice occasionally expands to food and drug regulation.
Law Offices Norcous & Partners
A Gostauto str 12 A, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel +370 5 2683 620 Fax +370 5 2683 621
Web www.norcous.lt
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Norcous & Partners was founded by Irmantas Norkus in 2001 and has rapidly grown into an esteemed expert organisation.
The firm has a substantial domestic and international practice, with a strategic focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and disputes, banking and finance, technology and communications. Its broad spectrum of expertise also gives it a comprehensive basis to provide advice in specialist areas of business law, such as pharmaceuticals, employment, intellectual property, marketing, real estate, arbitration, insolvency, insurance, tax and competition.
The firm maintains close cooperative relationships with the leading pan-Baltic law firms.
Irmantas Norkus
Head Partner
Email irmantas.norkus@norcous.lt
Irmantas Norkus is head partner of Law Offices Norcous & Partners. He was awarded his doctorate of social sciences from Vilnius University and has also studied at John Marshall Law School, United States, and the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Mr Norkus concentrates his practice in M&A transactions and advises on capital investments, privatisations, banking, project finance and bankruptcy law. His area of particular expertise is competition law. Mr Norkus is currently preparing a publication on anti-competitive agreements, and tutors in international private law at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University.
Miroslav Nosevic
Assistant Attorney at Law
Email miroslav.nosevic@norcous.lt
Miroslav Noseviã obtained a masters in law from Vilnius University. As legal counsel to the Lithuanian Privatisation Agency, he has advised on the privatisation of leading Lithuanian companies, as well as on restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings involving state-owned companies. As a Lithuanian delegate, Mr Noseviã was a member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law working group which drafted recommendations on insolvency legislation. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions and privatisation.
Eva Suduiko
Assistant Attorney at Law
Email eva.suduiko@norcous.lt
Eva Suduiko is an assistant lawyer at Law Offices Norcous & Partners. She obtained her masters in law from Vilnius University. Her practice focuses on company law, commercial law and private international law. A particular area of expertise is capital markets.
Lawfort bcvba
Woluwe Garden, Woluwedal 20, 1932 St Stevens Woluwe, Belgium
Tel +32 2 710 78 11 Fax +32 2 710 78 53
Web www.lawfort.be
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Lawfort is a leading and independent Belgian law firm with 120 lawyers at four cities in Belgium (Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Liège), one office in Prague and an alliance with top Turkish law firm Pekin & Bayar. Lawfort’s dedicated expert teams provide legal consulting and litigation services in all areas of business law. A multi-disciplinary and projectwise approach, mutual dynamics between the various specialisms and a strong client focus determine Lawfort’s strength and offer total and integrated solutions to complex business issues.
Johan Verhaert
Senior associate
Email johan.verhaert@lawfort.be
Johan Verhaert is a senior associate in Lawfort’s Corporate Department and head of the Business Recovery Section. He graduated from the law school of the University of Antwerp and holds a masters in company law from the Catholic University of Brussels. He deals with important international debt restructuring cases (eg, Euro notes restructuring) and international credit agreements. His areas of particular experience include contract law, security interests, insolvency proceedings and corporate restructuring. His practice includes both litigation (eg, directors’, shareholders’ and/or auditors’ liability) and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
Linklaters
Palác Myslbek, Na P½íkopû 19, Prague 1, 117, 19, Czech Republic
Tel +420 221 622 111 Fax +420 221 622 199
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Linklaters Prague was established in 1992 and has since grown in size and strength to become one of the largest law firms in the Czech Republic. Linklaters Prague provides a fully integrated legal and tax service in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate, energy, antitrust/competition, employment, intellectual property, finance, banking, real estate and construction, as well as major telecommunications and media matters, combining the experience of Linklaters across its worldwide practice with local legal expertise and knowledge of the conditions in the Czech Republic. Linklaters Prague advises major Czech companies and international investors operating in the Czech Republic.
Ruzena Trojánková
Attorney at Law
Email ruzena.trojankova@linklaters.com
Ruzena Trojánková is a Czech attorney at law and has been working at Linklaters Prague since 1995. Before starting her practice as an attorney, she served as a civil law judge for 12 years. Ms Trojánková specialises in contentious commercial matters and bankruptcy issues. She also advises clients in intellectual property, unfair competition and labour law matters. Recently, she has been providing legal advice to one of the largest Czech producers of alcoholic beverages, defending its trademark rights both in the Czech Republic and abroad. In addition, she provides legal advice to Czech and foreign banks in bankruptcy proceedings against their debtors, and to one of the biggest retail chains in judicial and arbitration matters. Ms Trojánková graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague.
Ludek Vrána
Corporate and M&A Partner
Email ludek.vrana@linklaters.com
Ludek Vrána has advised a number of large international companies such as Unilever, Honeywell, Philip Morris and Union SDA/Tereos in connection with the entry and restructuring of their operations in the Czech Republic. He also specialises in competition law and has been involved in various high-profile competition matters, such as the concentration clearance for Air France and KLM, the alleged abuse of a dominant position by Microsoft and an alleged cartel agreement involving Shell and ConocoPhillips.
30 Herbert Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel +353 1 619 9000 Fax +353 1 619 9010
Web www.mop.ie
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Matheson Ormsby Prentice is one of Ireland’s leading corporate law firms, providing a comprehensive range of legal services to its global client base, including advising on corporate restructuring and insolvency issues. The firm has extensive cross-border insolvency experience. Its principal office is in Dublin, with other offices in London, New York and Palo Alto, California.
Rod Ensor
Head of Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law Group
Email rod.ensor@mop.ie
Rod Ensor is partner and head of the corporate restructuring and insolvency group. He specialises in all aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency, and represents numerous financial institutions, public and private companies and insolvency office holders.
Mr Ensor is consistently ranked as one of Ireland’s leading lawyers by international legal directories. He is a frequent lecturer on corporate restructuring and insolvency law matters.
Strawinskylaan 1999, 1077 XV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel +31 20 717 10 00 Fax +31 20 717 11 11
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NautaDutilh is one of the leading independent law firms in the Benelux and one of Europe’s pre-eminent law firms. It is one of the largest law firms in the Benelux market, with over 100 partners and nearly 450 lawyers, civil law notaries and tax advisers in offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, London and New York. The firm maintains longstanding relationships with many other leading international law firms around the globe.
The firm provides a broad range of high-level legal services in the fields of banking, corporate, finance, capital markets, international tax, communications, competition, energy, insolvency, intellectual property, shipping, litigation and real estate.
Robert van Galen
Partner
Email robert.vangalen@nautadutilh.com
Robert van Galen is a partner in NautaDutilh and specialises in international insolvency law, international restructurings and corporate litigation. He has been involved in most recent international restructurings and bankruptcies in the Netherlands, including Fokker, Global Telesystems Europe, UPC and KPNQwest. He is an active and creative litigator, involved in many proceedings in all courts of the Netherlands, including the Supreme Court. He is one of the editors of one of the leading Dutch legal magazines (Ondernemingsrecht) and is co-author of a commentary on the Dutch Bankruptcy Act.
Mr van Galen graduated from Amsterdam University in 1984. He joined NautaDutilh in 1985 and became partner in 1994.
Noble & Scheidecker
398, route d’Esch, L – 1471 Luxembourg
Tel +352 26 48 421 Fax +352 26 48 42 35 00
Web www.mnks.com
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Noble & Scheidecker is a full-service Luxembourg law firm dedicated to business law and characterised by a dynamic team of multinational lawyers. The 35-member firm is one of the top 10 in the jurisdiction.
Throughout the years, Noble & Scheidecker has established strong relationships with other foreign law firms, consultants and service providers which enable it to provide global coordination and integrated advice to clients whose business activities reach beyond Luxembourg.
Noble & Scheidecker is best known for its corporate practice, with significant expertise in mergers and acquisitions, employment law, intellectual property, communications, technology, banking and finance, and dispute resolution.
Its client base is multinational, especially in the private equity, technology and banking sectors.
Katia Scheidecker
Partner
Email Scheidecker@mnks.com
Katia Scheidecker is a founding partner of Noble & Scheidecker and is leader of the IP/Information and Communications Technology team. She often advises national and international clients in the field of corporate and financial law, and has notably assisted numerous large European and US groups to establish structures in Luxembourg. With regards to debt and insolvency issues, Ms Scheidecker has acted as receiver and assisted clients within the framework of insolvency procedures.
Galleria Importanne, Iblerov trg 10/VII, PO Box 92, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel +385 1 4693 999 Fax +385 1 4693 900
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Porobija & Porobija was established in 1991. The firm advises on commercial, corporate and civil law. Most of its work involves cross-border or international transactions. While the firm is not part of any formal associations, it maintains links with several leading international law firms in the European Union and the United States. Its clients include leading international industrial and service corporations across a broad spectrum of businesses, major investment and commercial banks, international financial institutions and export agencies.
Sanja Porobija
Senior Partner
Email sanja.porobija@porobija.hr
Ms Porobija joined Porobija and Porobija in 1991. She has extensive experience in providing legal advice in the areas of project finance, real estate and construction law, bankruptcy and insolvency law, as well as in administrative law. She advises and represents Croatian and foreign investors on Croatian legal aspects of project development, real estate law, financing and the law of contracts. She speaks fluent English and is the co-author of Welcome to Croatia – Investment Guide.
Portugal
Adelaide Moura
Lawyer
Email adelaide.moura@ammoura.pt
Adelaide Moura is a Portuguese lawyer. She obtained her law degree from University of Lisbon in 1985 and completed a postgraduate diploma in techniques and strategy of negotiation at INSEAD, London, in 1994. She has been a practising member of the Portuguese College of Lawyers since 1988, and is currently completing a masters in European law at the University of London.
Ms Moura acts as legal counsel for companies in various commercial sectors, including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, automobiles, textiles, entertainment, banking and finance. Acting as the lawyer of various multinational companies operating in Portugal, she has final responsibility for the execution of mandates relating to the acquisition, spin-off and merger of companies, including all matters related to hirings, suspensions and transformation of employment relations. She has extensive experience in the negotiation of strategic alliances and the funding of companies and projects, and leads a team of lawyers that handle the legal aspects of initial public offerings and the completion of corporate restructurings.
Luís Miguel Reis
Lawyer
Email luis.reis@ammoura.pt
Luís Miguel Reis is a Portuguese lawyer who handles litigation, bankruptcy, labour, public contracts, IP and EU matters. He obtained his law degree from Católica University, Lisbon, in 1995 and a postgraduate degree in European studies from the University of Lisbon. He also attends an annual course on industrial property rights at the University of Lisbon. He has been a practising member of the Portuguese College of Lawyers since 1997.
Mr Reis deals with major litigation and labour issues. His areas of particular experience include debt collection, insolvency and restructuring, downsizing proceedings, public tenders and IP law. His practice includes both litigation and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Firm profile
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the world’s largest provider of business recovery and insolvency services. Active in over 60 countries, its global network of around 2,000 highly skilled professionals can rapidly deploy and integrate cross-border resources to meet the needs of clients, wherever they may be.
Working in partnership with companies and their stakeholders, PwC’s experienced teams offer a full range of recovery services, from turnaround and restructuring plans to optimised exit strategies to corporate insolvency. Supported by PwC’s vast network of industry, tax, legal and financial experts, its Business Recovery Services practice has a depth and breadth that no other firm can offer.
As a result, PwC’s Business Recovery specialists are valued by clients for their ability to rapidly identify problem areas, gain cooperation and build consensus, develop value-preserving solutions, and implement them with sensitivity and precision. It has a proven track record for helping companies stabilise crisis situations, rebuild shareholder confidence and value, and identify and implement timely, viable action
Woluwe Garden, Woluwedal 18, Building G304, B-1932 St Stevens Woluwe, Belgium
Tel +32 2 710 73 13 Fax +32 2 710 40 99
Michael De Roover
Partner
Michael De Roover is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory/Business Optimising and Structuring Services Department. He graduated with a masters in law from the University of Antwerp (1987) and a business degree from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (1988), and obtained a masters of business administration from Suffolk University, Boston, United States (1989). He has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1990 and became a partner five years ago.
Mr De Roover was previously in charge of the firm’s Belgian Corporate Finance and Restructuring Department, where he handled major M&A and restructuring transactions in Belgium and on an international level. In June 2004 the department became part of PwC Advisory; Mr De Roover is now one of the leading partners in the Business Optimising and Structuring Services Department. He has in-depth experience in the project management of deals and extensive knowledge of the legal, economic/financial, tax and strategic issues of large transactions.
Kathleen Granjé
Senior Manager
Email granje.kathleen@pwc.be
Kathleen Granjé is a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory/Business Optimising and Structuring Services Department. She obtained a masters in applied economics in 1994 and has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1994. After six years of audit experience in both Belgium and the United States, she joined the Corporate Finance and Restructuring Department in Belgium, where she dealt with restructuring transactions both in Belgium and on an international level. In June 2004 the department became part of PwC Advisory; Ms Grangé is now a crisis management specialist within the Business Optimising and Structuring Services Department. She specialises in financial option reviews, business reviews and advice within the framework of debt restructuring and recovery planning.
Alexandera von Humboldta 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel +3851 632 8803 Fax +3851 6111 556
Don Markusic
Head of Legal Department
Email don.markusic@hr.pwc.com
Don Markusic is the head of the Legal Department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Croatia. He graduated with an LLB from Monash University, Australia, and with an LLM from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also admitted to practice in England and Wales. His practice involves all aspects of foreign investment and cross-border transactions. Major projects include advising the Croatian government on the tender procedure for the first build-operate-transfer infrastructure project in Croatia, the €175 million waste water treatment plant for the city of Zagreb.
Julia House, 3 Themistocles Dervis Street, CY-1066, Nicosia, Cyprus
PO Box 21612, CY-1591, Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel +357 22 555 000 Fax +357 22 555 001
Pavlos Nacouzi
Senior Manager
Email pavlos.nacouzi@cy.pwc.com
Pavlos Nacouzi is a senior manager in the Business Recovery Services department of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He graduated with a BSc (Soc Sc) in economics and accounting from University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. His areas of particular experience include corporate restructuring and insolvency, receiverships, workouts and corporate reorganisations.
Katerinska 40/466, 120 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic
Tel +420 25115 1240 Fax +420 25115 1220
Petr Polivka
Manager, Crisis Management Department
Email petr.polivka@cz.pwc.com
Petr Polivka is a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Recovery Services team in Prague. He is a chartered and certified accountant, and has eight years of experience with a wide range of assignments involving strategic and financial business reviews and restructuring in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Croatia. His restructuring experience has been predominantly concentrated on steel companies.
Strandvejen 44, DK 2900 Hellerup, Denmark
Tel +45 39 45 39 45 Fax +45 39 45 39 87
Ejgil L Jensen
State Authorised Auditor and Partner, Århus
Email ELJ@pwc.dk
Kristian B Lassen
State Authorised Auditor and Senior Manager, Århus
Email KBL@pwc.dk
Jesper Bo Winther
State Authorised Auditor and Senior Manager, Copenhagen
Email JBW@pwc.dk
Mr Jensen, Mr Lassen and Mr Winther work as an auditors and have been involved in a number of restructuring cases. In 2003 they published a book on corporate turnarounds.
Pärnu Road 15, 10141 Tallinn, Estonia
Tel +372 6141 800 Fax +372 6141 900
Heidi Kakko
Manager
Email heidi.kakko@ee.pwc.com
Heidi Kakko is an experienced consultant in a wide range of business advisory services, having begun her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1995. Her previous engagements have included M&A assignments, company valuations, feasibility studies, and project finance and business recovery services. Ms Kakko has advised on several large-scale projects in the production, financial services and real estate sectors. She has unique experience of operating a loan department of an Estonian bank that recently went bankrupt. Her areas of advice include business recovery and performance improvement services. She is a member of the PwC Advisors team, which offers a broad range of management consultancy services including transactions, project management and corporate finance.
32 rue Guersant, 75833 Paris cedex 17, France
Tel +33 1 56 57 85 23 Fax +33 1 56 57 85 51
Chuck Evans
Partner
Email chuck.mc.evans@fr.pwc.com
Chuck Evans is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Restructuring Services department in Paris. A Cambridge graduate in engineering, Mr Evans is a UK chartered accountant with finance director and crisis management experience. Specialised in corporate recovery since 1990, he has been based in France for over six years and focuses on assisting both international and local lenders with French companies in difficulty. He also advises major international groups on restructuring and/or exit strategies in France, involving solvent and insolvent liquidations, factory closures and relocations, and complex social plans.
Olof-Palme-Strasse 35-37, D-60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel +49 69 9585 0 Fax +49 69 9585 1000
Stephen J Taylor
Leader, Business Recovery Services, Eurozone Countries
Email stephen.taylor@de.pwc.com
Stephen Taylor is the leader of the continental European Business Recovery Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has worked in this field for almost 25 years and has been a partner in the firm for 15 years. A specialist in cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters, he also advises governments and international financial institutions on insolvency law and practice. Business clients have included well-known names such as Enron, where Mr Taylor coordinated the European subsidiaries; specialist groups such as French hedge-fund trader Volter Fund; companies involved in complex fraud cases, such as Parmalat and Flowtex; and large state-owned industries such as the giant Romanian pig farm Comtim. In particular, Mr Taylor has been the leading user of the EU Insolvency Regulation to prevent the disintegration of groups of companies upon insolvency.
A regular commentator on the changing world of restructuring and its implications for governments, industries and the business recovery profession, Mr Taylor contributes to several journals and publications, including the Global Restructuring Year Book and Kluwers International Corporate Recovery, and is a speaker at seminars throughout the world.
Robert E Munn
Director, Business Recovery Services
Email robert.munn@de.pwc.com
Robert Munn has been involved in business recovery consulting practices within PricewaterhouseCoopers for more than 20 years. During this time he has directed many business viability reviews, commercial and financial reviews, restructurings, workouts and formal insolvency proceeding. Since October 2003 he has been based in Frankfurt, Germany, after periods in South Korea and Indonesia. He has a broad range of experience across many industries and jurisdictions worldwide. Major business clients include companies involved in complex fraud cases such as Parmalat and Flowtex; insolvent insurers; state-owned banks in Korea and Indonesia; and MG Rover. In particular, Mr Munn has been very closely involved in the use of the EU Insolvency Regulation to prevent the disintegration of groups of companies upon insolvency.
In addition to his assignment-based work, in Indonesia he took responsibility for management of the Business Recovery practice and also acted as learning and education leader for the Financial Advisory Services line. He is also co-author of the Indonesia chapter in the Asia-Pacific Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2003/04.
268 Kifissias Avenue, 152 32 Halandri, Athens, Greece
Tel +30 210 687 4640 Fax +30 210 687 4642
Web www.pwc.com/gr
Emil Yiannopoulos
Partner
Email emil.yiannopoulos@gr.pwc.com
Emil Yiannopoulos leads the Corporate Finance and Recovery practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Greece. He is a qualified chartered accountant. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and business regeneration, with an industry focus on financial services, retail and consumer products. His practice also includes valuations, business recovery and lender services, and receivables management.
Wesselényi u 16, H-1077 Budapest, Hungary
Tel +36 1 461 9100 Fax +36 1 461 9101
Margaret Dezse
Partner
Email margaret.dezse@hu.pwc.com
Margaret Dezse heads the Hungarian Corporate Finance team and is also the M&A leader for the Central and Eastern European region. She is a Canadian national who first came to Hungary in 1989 to be a driving force in establishing the presence of Price Waterhouse in Hungary. A year later she helped start the Corporate Finance and Recovery service line, becoming responsible for the business line in 1996. In her many years of experience, Ms Dezse has provided advisory services on a wide range of transactions such as privatisations, mergers and acquisitions, finance raising, strategic/industry/market review, valuation and feasibility studies, and across various industry sectors such as energy, water, financial services, telecommunications, IT, insurance, consumer products and automotive.
Tamás Réh
Manager
Email tamas.reh@hu.pwc.com
Tamás Réh is a manager of the Transaction Support and Corporate Finance service line. He joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Budapest in 1993. He has extensive experience in business valuation and shareholder value advisory, financial analysis and cash-flow forecast, reorganisation and business recovery services. He also has experience in liquidation assignments and final accounting procedures. Mr Réh has provided advisory services in various industry sectors such as financial services, energy, transportation, agriculture, chemicals and food.
Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel +353 1 678 9999 Fax +353 1 662 6200
Billy O’Riordan
Partner
Email billy.oriordan@ie.pwc.com
Billy O’Riordan is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is licensed to act as an insolvency practitioner in Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Mr O’Riordan has served as chairman of the Insolvency Committee of the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies in Ireland for over four years. He has wide experience of corporate insolvency and other troubled company issues, having specialised in this area since 1980.
He has acted as a receiver or liquidator in companies involved in the building and construction industry, food processing, the leisure sector, including pubs, hotels and dance halls, and shoe and clothing manufacturers. He has acted as independent accountant reporting to the High Court on corporate restructurings through examination process. He also has extensive forensic accounting experience in providing financial analysis and advice in respect of litigation arising from fraud investigations, shareholder disputes and insolvencies.
De Entrée 2001, 1101HG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel +31 20 568 6607 Fax +31 20 568 4915
Walter Wolfs
Partner
Email walter.a.w.wolfs@nl.pwc.com
Walter Wolfs is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and leads the Business Recovery practice in the Netherlands. He holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Amsterdam and is a registered accountant in the Netherlands. He has wide experience in dealing with major corporate M&A transactions and corporate restructurings in both the Netherlands and Indonesia (between 1996 and 2000). His areas of particular experience include the infocom, retail, and consumer and industrial product sectors.
Al Armii Ludowej 14, 00-638 Warsaw, Poland
Tel +48 22 523 4000 Fax +48 22 523 4370
Janusz Sekowski
Assistant Director
Email janusz.sekowski@pl.pwc.com
Janusz Sekowski is an assistant director leading the Business Recovery Services practice within the Warsaw office of PwC. He graduated from the University of Economics in Poznan, Poland, and is a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
Mr Sekowski has international experience gained in the United Kingdom and Poland relating to corporate restructuring, cost reduction and business improvement projects. His experience also includes advisory projects for lenders as well as insolvency proceedings and distressed business disposals. His area of interest also includes transactions of non-performing loans.
Avenida da Liberdade, 245, 8ºA, 1269 – 034 Lisbon, Portugal
Tel +351 21 319 72 55 Fax +351 21 319 72 99
Vijay Chopra
Partner,Transaction Services
Email vijay.chopra@pt.pwc.com
Vijay Chopra is the partner responsible for PwC’s Transaction Services Department in Portugal. He works mainly on mergers and acquisitions, due diligence and the recovery of international and local companies.
Together with three others, Mr Chopra set up the Transaction Services Department in Portugal in 1996. It now consists of over 25 dedicated professionals.
His areas of particular experience include due diligence and valuation work as well as corporate restructuring and workouts, as well as foreign investment in Portugal. His practice includes both commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
1-5 Costache Negri Street, Bucharest 5, Romania
Tel +40 21 202 8640 Fax +40 21 202 8650
Ana-Irina Sarcane
Senior Lawyer and Adviser
Email irina.sarcane@ro.pwc.com
Ana-Irina Sarcane is a senior lawyer advising the Crisis Management Department of PricewaterhouseCoopers Romania (Advisory Division), and is an active member of various Romanian and European professional organisations. She is currently a candidate for a PhD in commercial law and is preparing her thesis on insolvency issues; she is also the author of several articles published in prestigious bankruptcy and business law journals. For the last seven years, Ms Sarcane has participated as a legal adviser in numerous PricewaterhouseCoopers bankruptcy assignments. She provides expert legal advice regarding the administration of insolvent companies, compulsory liquidations, voluntary liquidations, other formal insolvency proceedings and business restructuring engagements. She also has extensive litigation experience, working with various Romanian courts on large and complex insolvency cases.
52/5, Kosmodamianskaya Naberezhnaya, Moscow, 115054, Russia
Tel +7 095 967 6000 Fax +7 095 967 6001
Web www.pwc.com/ru
Alexander Temkin
Senior Manager
Email alexander.temkin@ru.pwc.com
Alexander Temkin is a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Recovery Group in Moscow. He graduated with a bachelors degree in economics from the Moscow State University and with an MA (economics) from the University of Washington, Seattle, United States. Mr Temkin has over eight years of experience in providing business and financial advice to companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Central Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. He managed a number of financial and business reviews in the chemical, iron and steel, aluminium, automotive, industrial services and beverage industries. These included reviews of distressed businesses in need of restructuring. Mr Temkin advised several multinational corporations on actions with regard to their troubled subsidiaries in Russia. Between 2000 and 2001 he worked at PwC’s Business Regeneration Group in London.
Makedonska 30/ IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Tel +381 11 3302 100 Fax +381 11 3302 101
Miroslava Milenovic
Senior Manager, Head of Advisory
Email miroslava.milenovic@yu.pwc.com
Ms Milenovic has over 15 years’ experience of international and domestic administration, finance and accounting, tax regulation, financial advisory and consulting services, registration, internal auditing, accounting and financial control of international and domestic companies. She has worked as a tax consultant for embassies, foreign representations and non-governmental organisations.
In 2002 she headed the Utilities Restructuring Unit of the Ministry of Finance, gaining expertise in commercial/political restrictions and the realities of the transition process. She supported and advised chief executive officers and decision makers, and participated in the drafting of the Law on Accounting and Auditing.
In 2003 she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Belgrade. Since then, she has led a restructuring project, played an active part in conferences and organised training on the implementation of International Accounting Standards. She also has extensive experience of anti-corruption methods, anti-money laundering initiatives and combating terrorist financing.
Stampfenbachstrasse 138, 8035 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel +41 1 630 11 11 Fax +41 1 630 14 45
Markus Koch
Head of Business Recovery Services
Email markus.koch@ch.pwc.com
Markus Koch heads the Business Recovery Services practice within PwC’s Advisory Division. He obtained his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, United States. Before joining PwC, Mr Koch was account manager in Corporate Lending/Recovery at the Zurich headquarters of a major Swiss bank and strategy consultant in the Sydney office of a leading US management consultancy. At PwC, he focuses on financial restructuring and associated topics (eg, distressed debt trading, stakeholder management). The Business Recovery Services practice also designs and implements operational restructurings, and has mandates as administrator or liquidator in Swiss insolvencies.
38 Turgenevska Street, 5th Floor, Kyiv 01054, Ukraine
Tel + 380 44 490 67 77 Fax + 380 44 216 45 58
Dmitry Martynenko
Senior Attorney
Email dmitry.martynenko@ua.pwc.com
Dmitry Martynenko is a senior attorney with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has 12 years’ professional experience and has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers for nine years. Throughout his career, he has focused on various aspects of commercial and civil law, including insolvency and bankruptcy procedures, M&A transactions, legal due diligence projects, corporate issues, privatisations, capital markets and securities transactions, antitrust issues, and real estate and land transactions. He has provided legal counsel to foreign and domestic companies
in the energy, telecommunications, financial markets and agriculture sectors, and to government bodies including the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the State Property Fund of Ukraine, the State Securities and the Stock Market Commission of Ukraine. He holds a diploma in law from the Law School of Kyiv National University, as well as an investment manager certificate (Association of Securities Traders) and a depositary activity specialist certificate (Ukrainian Institute of Capital Markets Development under the State Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine).
Plumtree Court, London, EC4A 4HT,United Kingdom
Tel +44 7212 3296 Fax +44 7804 5566
Web www.pwc.co.uk
Jeremy Lewin
Senior Manager
Email Jeremy.r.lewin@uk.pwc.com
Jeremy Lewin is a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Recovery Services department. He is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and a member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals. He deals with a variety of business reviews, corporate restructuring and insolvency cases across a number of different industries.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Srl
Viale Monte Rosa, 91, 20149 Milan, Italy
Tel +39 02 80646 341 Fax +39 02 80646 370
Luca Lupone
Partner
Email luca.lupone@it.pwc.com
Luca Lupone graduated in economics from Bocconi University in 1982 and attended the INSEAD Business Administration Conferences from 1986 to 1989 in Fontainebleau, France. He is an Italian chartered accountant and a lecturer at the SDA Bocconi. Since 2001 he has been the partner responsible for the Italian PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance and Recovery Team, and he is a member of the Europe, Middle East and Africa Corporate Finance and Recovery Leadership Team.
Mr Lupone has successfully closed significant transactions – mainly distressed M&A deals and financial restructurings – with international investors and Italian groups, and has also cooperated on significant advisory projects with important companies. He is the author of numerous articles and publications on restructuring.
Paolo Pajardi
Director
Email paolo.pajardi@it.pwc.com
Paolo Pajardi is a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers and part of the Business Support and Restructuring Team, involved in corporate restructuring, distressed M&A and business reviews. He graduated from Università Cattolica in Milan and is an Italian chartered accountant. His areas of particular experience are corporate restructuring and business reviews of large international companies in financial difficulties in Italy. His practice includes both insolvency law and corporate restructuring of companies in the food sector, industrial products, advertising and telecommunications. He is the author of numerous articles and publications on restructuring.
PricewaterhouseCoopers AS
Karenslyst allé 12, N-0245 Oslo, Norway
Tel +47 0 23 16 Fax +47 23 16 10 00
Thorbjørn Grindhaug
Partner
Email thorbjorn.grindhaug@no.pwc.com
Thorbjørn Grindhaug is a partner and leads PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Insolvency and Restructuring Services practice in Norway. In addition to insolvency and restructuring services, his areas of practice include transaction services.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Bulgaria
9-11 Maria Louisa Blvd, 8th Floor, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel +359 2 9355 100 Fax +359 2 9355 166
Bojidar Neitchev
Partner
Email bojidar.neitchev@bg.pwc.com
Bojidar Neitchev is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Bulgaria and is the head of Advisory Services for Southeast Europe. He has played a key role in the development of Advisory Services in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe for the past 10 years. He has significant experience of completing projects in Bulgaria and the region. Some of his key business recovery and crisis management projects include assistance to the Bulgarian Privatisation Agency on liquidation/restructuring-related projects for Balkan Airlines (the former Bulgarian national carrier) and Balkancar (formerly the world’s third largest forklift manufacturer), and assistance to Serbia’s national carrier, JatAirways, on the restructuring of its non-core businesses. He also acted as lead consultant to the Serbian Bank Rehabilitation Agency on the liquidation of five large banks.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance
Pº de La Castellana, 53, 28043 Madrid, Spain
Tel +34 91 568 43 73 Fax +34 91 568 42 03
Web www.pwc.es
Colin P Blessley
Partner-in-Charge
Email colin.blessley@es.pwc.com
Colin Blessley is a partner-in-charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Restructuring and Forensic Division.
With over 35 years of professional experience, Mr Blessley has served clients in Spain and Latin America for more than 30 years and has advised a multitude of domestic and international companies on business acquisitions, disposals, restructuring, financing, strategic planning and litigation.
Mr Blessley has led many advisory assignments involving restructuring and business recovery. For a number of years he was the leader of the firm’s European Business Investigation and Due Diligence practice. During this time, he led acquisition due diligence assignments on behalf of a wide variety of multinational companies.
He holds a degree in Spanish and Portuguese from Bristol University, and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, a Spanish chartered accountant and a member of the Official Register of Auditors in Spain.
José Enrique Rovira
Director, Madrid
Email jose.rovira@es.pwc.com
José E Rovira is a director of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Business Restructuring and Forensic Division. He has a dual university degree in economics and law from ICADE, and is a Spanish chartered accountant (IACJCE) and a member of the Official Register of Auditors and of the Spanish Expert Witness and Insolvency Practitioners Registers. He has been involved in a wide range of restructuring and insolvency assignments in both Spain and Latin America, as well as litigation support, fraud investigations and consequential damages calculations, among others. His areas of particular expertise include underperforming business reviews, operational and financial corporate restructuring and insolvency practice.
Torsgatan 21, 7 floors, 113 97 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel +46 8 555 33 000 Fax +46 8 555 33 001
Jens Skaring
Assistant Director
Email jens.skaring@se.pwc.com
Jens Skaring is leader of PwC’s Business Recovery Services practice in Sweden. He received an MBA from New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business, United States, and a master of laws degree from Lund University, Sweden, which included five months studying European Community law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is a valuation and restructuring specialist. His broad experience includes a wide range of domestic and international assignments involving strategic and financial business reviews, and company and asset valuations. His restructuring experience has been predominantly concentrated on advising banks in workout situations in the Nordic countries. He also has in-depth knowledge of the telecommunications industry, having spent two years (from late 1999 until 2001) in PwC’s Business Recovery Services Telecoms practice in Los Angeles, United States, advising bank groups and bondholders on distressed telecom investments.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Sàrl
400 route d’Esch, L-1014 Luxembourg
Tel +352 49 48 48 1 Fax +352 49 48 48 2900
Jean-François Kroonen
Corporate Finance Director
Email jean-francois.kroonen@lu.pwc.com
Jean-François Kroonen graduated from HEC Liège as an ingénieur commercial in 1992. He started his career in an international accounting firm and spent several years in the Audit Department, where he specialised in the financial sector. He then moved to the Corporate Finance Department, where he developed expertise in the restructuring of companies, as well as working on M&A and valuation engagements. He joined PwC Luxembourg in 2001 to set up the firm’s Corporate Finance Department. In his capacity as corporate finance director, Mr Kroonen has been exposed to a variety of transactions, including turnarounds and restructurings.
PwC Corporate Finance Oy
Mannerheimintie 16A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358 9 6129 110 Fax +358 9 6129 1110
Web www.pwc.com
Kari Niemenoja
Assistant Director, Helsinki
Email kari.niemenoja@fi.pwc.com
Kari Niemenoja is assistant director at PwC Corporate Finance Oy Helsinki. His main responsibilities are middle market M&A transactions and business recovery services. He is also specialised in competition issues and, for example, has acted as a trustee for the European Commission in several multinational transactions. He graduated in 1983 with an LLM from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has a long working history in the financial sector, including in major corporate restructurings, M&A transactions and other arrangements. He has solid experience in protecting value for the stakeholders of troubled businesses in Finland.
Klaus Keravuori
Managing Partner
Email klaus.keravuori@fi.pwc.com
Klaus Keravuori, BSc (Economics), is managing partner at PwC Corporate Finance Oy, Helsinki. He specialises in protecting and adding value to various stakeholders, and has a solid background in crisis management. During his career, Mr Keravuori has led a significant number of high-level company turnarounds, covering various business areas.
PwC Corporate Finance Beratung GmbH
Erdbergstrasse 200, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel +43 1 501 88 2920 Fax +43 1 501 88 621
Web www.pwc.at
Miklós Révay
Senior Manager
Email miklos.revay@at.pwc.com
Miklós Révay is senior manager in the advisory department of PwC in Vienna. He graduated from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna. He is responsible for Business Recovery Services within PwC and has experience in a wide range of industries. He has also been engaged in many mergers and acquisitions of companies in Austria and Germany, and in financial restructurings. Another focus is going-private projects.
PricewaterhouseCoopers SIA
Valdemara iela 19, Riga, Latvia LV-1010
Tel +371 709 44 00 Fax +371 783 00 55
Arturs Breicis
Consultant, Tax Services
Email arturs.breicis@lv.pwc.com
Arturs Breicis is a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Latvia. He graduated with a BSc from the University of Latvia. He handles corporate income tax and corporate legal matters. His areas of particular experience include international tax matters. He recently began working on the reorganisation planning of large company groups.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax, ks
Hviezdoslavovo nám 20, 815 32 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel +421 2 59 350 111 Fax +421 2 59 350 222
Todd Bradshaw
Partner
Email todd.bradshaw@sk.pwc.com
Todd Bradshaw is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers Bratislava and has over 10 years’ corporate tax experience.
He also has over four years’ experience advising multinational and Slovak companies within the Slovakia market. His work in Slovakia has involved providing both Slovak and international tax advice on structuring cross-border investments, mergers and acquisitions. Mr Bradshaw also specialises in transfer pricing and is the PwC Central-Eastern European tax regional specialist for International Financial Reporting Standards deferred tax. He is a qualified chartered accountant.
Zuzana Valerová
Manager
Email zuzana.valerova@sk.pwc.com
Zuzana Valerová is a manager who provides legal services and has successfully completed the Slovak Bar examination. She has worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1998.
During her career in PricewaterhouseCoopers she has cooperated with numerous Slovak and international clients from various industries. Her work has involved advising clients on structuring cross-border investments, mergers and acquisitions, site selection and investment incentives. Ms Valerová also specialises in commercial, corporate and employment legal matters.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Turkey
Suleyman Seba Cad No 48, BJK Plaza B Blok K:9, 34357 Akaretler-Istanbul, Turkey
Tel +90 212 326 60 60 Fax +90 212 326 60 50
Serkan Tarmur
Senior Manager
Email serkan.tarmur@tr.pwc.com
Before joining PwC in 1996, Serkan Tarmur spent one-and-a-half years as an internal auditor in one of the biggest private banks in Turkey. As a manager for PwC Turkey’s Transaction Services group, he has gained vast experience in several valuation projects. He has been involved in projects undertaken for financial institutions and has provided consultancy services to multinational banks regarding their investment opportunities in Turkey.
For the last three years, Mr Tarmur has been the leading manager of the valuation and shareholder value business line in the Transaction Services group. He has been involved in valuation engagements of PwC in the financial services and production industries. Over the last two years, he has been mainly involved in banking transactions via due diligence, data-room reviews, valuations and bid support services including the data-room studies during the privatisation of Vakifbank.
Mr Tarmur’s clients have included BNP Paribas, Uni Credito Italiano, Societe Generale, Sabanci Holding, Koc Holding and Dogan Holding.
Esra Tacettin
Senior Manager
Email esra.tacettin@tr.pwc.com
Esra Tacettin obtained a LLM degree in European Community law from the Istanbul University Social Science Institute after graduating from the Istanbul University Faculty of Law. She is currently studying for her PhD at the same institute.
After working as a legal consultant at BNP Dresdner Bank and Selim Kaneti Law Office, she worked as an attorney at law for six years.
She joined the Legal Department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in January 1999. She has extensive experience in European Community law, competition law, contract law, corporate law, banking law, commercial law and foreign investment. Ms Tacettin is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association and speaks fluent English and French.
UAB PricewaterhouseCoopers
T Sevcenkos 21, LT-03111 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel +370 5 239 2300 Fax +370 5 239 2301
Chris Butler
Country Senior Partner
Email chris.butler@lt.pwc.com
Chris Butler has been living and working in Lithuania for nearly eight years, and during that time has gained a deep knowledge of the country and its economy. He is now the partner in charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers for Lithuania.
His principal speciality is the audit of banking and financial services institutions, but during his time in Lithuania he has audited and advised a wide range of companies in all sectors. He is the current chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania and is also a board member of Investor Forum, an organisation that speaks out on behalf of the investor community.
Roosikrantsi 2, 10119 Tallinn, Estonia
Tel +372 6407 170 Fax +372 6407 171
Web www.raidla.ee
Firm profile
Raidla & Partners is the largest law firm in Estonia. The firm has a broad commercial law practice and a strong focus on international work. Raidla & Partners provides a full range of legal services in all fields of corporate and business law.
Raidla & Partners is a member of RoschierRaidla, a Fenno-Baltic alliance that also includes leading law firms from Finland (Roschier Holmberg), Latvia (Lejins, Torgans & Voncovic) and Lithuania (Norcous & Partners).
The firm’s primary areas of competence and expertise are mergers and acquisitions, competition law, financial transactions and litigation. Over the last several years, the firm has been involved in nearly all significant M&A and financial transactions that have taken place in Estonia.
Raino Paron
Partner
Email raino.paron@raidla.ee
Raino Paron is the partner in charge of the Banking, Finance and Securities and Competition Law practices of Raidla & Partners. He also advises clients on issues of corporate law and M&A transactions.
Mr Paron has acted as the legal adviser in connection with the establishment of the Tallinn Stock Exchange, and in connection with the purchase of the Tallinn Stock Exchange and the Estonian Central Depository of Securities by the Helsinki Stock Exchange. He has also acted as the legal adviser in connection with the first ever initial public offering in Estonia; the preparation of the first Estonian eurobond issue; and listings of securities of Estonian issuers on the Tallinn and Luxembourg Stock Exchanges. He has participated in the drafting of numerous laws, including the Bankruptcy Act.
After graduating from Tartu University Law School and obtaining his LLM from Georgetown University Law School in Washington DC, he worked in the legal departments of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development before joining Raidla & Partners in 1995.
Sector 2, 45th Carol Boulevard, Ap 5, Bucharest, Romania
Tel +4 21 312 45 36 Fax +4 21 312 52 34
Web www.deleanu.ro
Firm profile
SCPA Deleanu Vasile – Lawyers provides quality legal advice and services to its clients in the following areas of expertise: corporate law, tax and legal advice, banking law, insolvency and debt recovery, privatisation, litigation. It has successfully represented Romanian and foreign companies in the past; today – as a new member of Moore Stephens Legal Network, an international network of independent law firms – it applies the very highest professional standards in its work. Taking a flexible approach, the firm deals positively with the issues its clients face and enjoys being part of its clients’ business teams, helping to overcome obstacles, accelerating progress and offering efficient, cost-effective solutions.
Andreea Nicoleta Deli
Partner
Email andreea.deli@deleanu.ro
Andreea Deli is a partner in Deleanu Vasile’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Department. She graduated from the University of Bucharest, and is a member of the Bucharest Bar Association and the Romanian Lawyers Society.
Ms Deli specialises in reorganisations, privatisations, mergers and acquisitions and insolvency proceedings. She has lectured at several national conferences on particular issues of insolvency legislation.
Ms Deli has published several articles on restructuring and bankruptcy procedures in Tribuna Economica, Adevarul Economic and other important weekly economic and financial magazines.
Her practice includes successful representation and legal assistance in some major insolvency cases involving banks and financial institutions.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5HA, United Kingdom
Tel +44 20 7360 3600 Fax +44 20 7626 7937
Web www.sidley.com
Firm profile
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms. With more than 1,550 lawyers and offices in North America, Europe and Asia, it provides a broad range of services to meet the needs of large and small businesses across a multitude of industries, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Its network of offices is able to provide integrated multi-jurisdictional and cross-jurisdictional legal services. The firm has offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington DC.
Robin Parsons
Partner
Email RParsons@Sidley.com
Robin Parsons is a partner in Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in London. His practice ranges from structured finance and securitisations to consumer finance, with particular emphasis on restructurings, workouts and insolvency. High-profile restructurings have included acting for the lead bank on Goodman International and numerous other bank-led rescues; acting for Federal Mogul Corporation in connection with the dual Chapter 11 and administration proceedings of its UK subsidiaries; and acting for bondholders and banks in distressed situations in the energy sector. Acquisition finance experience has included buy-backs through schemes of arrangement and bid finance. He has been nominated by Euromoney in its Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Lawyers, has been included in Law Business Research International’s Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers and has been recommended in the banking section of Legal Business. He has chaired a number of Law Society and other committees on law reform.
Phillip Taylor
Associate
Email PTaylor@Sidley.com
Phillip Taylor is an associate in Sidley Austin Brown & Wood’s Corporate Reorganisation and Bankruptcy Group in London. He has experience in both cross-border and domestic corporate recovery and turnaround matters, as well as international finance matters. Recently, his work has included acting for the administrators of BRAC Rent-A-Car International, Inc (formerly Budget-Rent-A-Car International, Inc), the first US company to be the subject of a UK administration order pursuant to the EU Insolvency Regulation; advising the potential administrators of a global advertising group; and advising a major investment bank in relation to two distressed securitisations. He has also been part of the team working for Federal Mogul Corporation in connection with the administration of its UK subsidiaries, and has acted for a monoline insurer in relation to a credit derivatives transaction.
Alex Rovira
Associate
Email ARovira@Sidley.com
Alex Rovira is an associate in Sidley Austin Brown & Wood’s Corporate Reorganisation and Bankruptcy Group in London and is a member of the New York State Bar Association. He has experience in representing clients on various aspects of restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency matters in both the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as in securitisations and structured finance matters. His work has included representing both debtors’ and creditors’ rights in complex Chapter 11 cases and cross-border reorganisations including Federal Mogul, Enron, Parmalat, Warnaco, Nevada Power and New Power.
Studio Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati
Largo Angelo Fochetti N 28, 00154 Rome, Italy
Tel +39 06 570 281 Fax +39 06 570 282 739
Firm profile
Studio Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati was established in the late 1970s as an association of professionals, by a group of specialists who had been engaged for several years in the provision of tax and statutory consulting services to medium and large-sized companies and multinational groups.
The firm has international correspondents operating in over 100 countries.
As a natural result of the evolution of its structure, the firm now includes, alongside specialists in economics and business registered with the professional lists, lawyers and legal specialists, as well as labour law consultants.
Giorgio Cherubini
Local Partner
Email giorgio.cherubini@studiopirola.com
Giorgio Cherubini heads the Insolvency/Bankruptcy Department of Studio Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati, and has about 20 years of professional experience. He was president of INSOL Europe 2001 and is a member of the Rome Bar, the International Bar Association, the editorial board of International Corporate Rescue and Eurofenix, the INSOL Europe newsletter.
His practice is mainly devoted to international insolvencies, turnarounds, reorganisations and related areas, including representation of creditors before bankruptcy courts, provision of advice to debtors and their boards, cross-border restructurings, and the winding-up and formal liquidation of companies. He has extensive experience of acting as bankruptcy trustee in forced administrative liquidations.
Mr Cherubini has contributed to numerous insolvency publications and is a frequent speaker at corporate restructuring and insolvency events. He speaks English and Spanish.
Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund
Haakon VII’s Gate 10, PO Box 1484 Vika, N-0116 Oslo, Norway
Tel +47 23 11 11 11 Fax +47 23 11 10 10
Firm profile
Thommessen is a leading and reputable Norwegian law firm with 220 dedicated personnel at offices in Oslo, Bergen, London and Brussels. The firm has 43 partners and 90 lawyers who provide a full range of legal services in the field of commercial law to Norwegian and international clients. Thommessen’s insolvency and restructuring team has extensive experience in representing debtors, creditors, banks and other financial institutions and potential investors in major corporate restructurings and insolvency proceedings. Thommessen’s representation emphasises the corporate, strategic and financial aspects of restructuring, recapitalising, buying and selling troubled businesses.
Gerhard Holm
Partner
Email gho@thommessen.no
Gerhard Holm is a partner and the head of Thommessen’s Department of Insolvency and Restructuring. In addition to insolvency and restructuring law, his areas of practice are real estate law (transactions and leases), general business law, contracts and litigation, especially related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and tax.
Reidar Myhre
Associate Partner
Email rmy@thommessen.no
Reidar Myhre is an associate partner in Thommessen’s Department of Insolvency and Restructuring. His practice consists of all issues related to insolvency and restructuring law. He also deals with real estate and construction law, general contract law and litigation.
Búdková No, 26, 811 04 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel +421 2 59 10 11 31 Fax +421 2 59 10 11 50
Firm profile
Valko & Partners is a dynamically developing law firm, and one of the largest and most well known in the Slovak Republic. It was established in 1993.
The firm offers a full range of efficient and high-quality legal services in almost all areas of law, not only in the Slovak Republic but also in the Czech Republic, to Slovak and foreign natural persons and legal entities.
Legal expertise is provided not only in the Slovak and Czech languages, but also in English, German, Russian and Hungarian.
Ernest Valko
Partner
Email valko@valkopartners.sk
Ernest Valko graduated from the Law Faculty of Comenius University, Bratislava. In 1992 he was elected chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. He is also registered as an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Slovak Republic. Dr Valko was a member of the APS Consortium led by the European Law & Policy Advisory Group, GbR, which provided legal advice with a view to updating Slovak legislation in preparation for EU accession. In the course of his legal practice he focuses on commercial law (corporate law, law of obligations), securities law, banking law, civil law (libel cases and law of obligations), constitutional law, labour law and criminal law.
Martin Timcsák
Attorney at law
Email timcsak@valkopartners.sk
Martin Timcsák graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Safárik in Kosice in 2000. He joined the firm as a trainee advocate in 2000. During his time with the firm he cooperated with the Division for Communism Crime Documentation at the Ministry of Justice and later with the Office of National Memory, assisting in the documentation of communism crimes between 1948 and 1989 and providing legal opinions on them. He became an advocate in 2004. His practice areas include commercial law (unfair competition, trademarks), constitutional law, bankruptcy law, labour law and civil law (libel cases, real estate).
Blumenstrasse 17, 69115
Heidelberg, Germany
Tel +49 6221 91180 Fax +49 6221 23128
Firm profile
Wellensiek is one of the largest law firms in Germany specialising in insolvency-related matters, including insolvency administration, restructuring law and company/commercial, with an emphasis on banking law and labour law.
It has over 50 lawyers and over 90 staff members in nine offices, located in Heidelberg, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hildesheim, Leipzig and Munich.
Some of the larger assignments it has undertaken include insolvency administrations for Maxhütte, Bremer Vulkan, Hornitex and Peguform.
Christof Schiller
Partner
Email christof.schiller@wellensiek.de
Christof Schiller obtained his law degree from Heidelberg University in 1992. He is also qualified as a tax consultant under German law and as a certified public accountant for the state of Maine, United States.
Dr Schiller specialises in insolvency-related matters. He has been appointed insolvency trustee for Matthias Schmider in the Flowtex case, one of Germany’s biggest fraudulent insolvencies, and is also liquidator to two Enron companies in Germany.
Other areas of competence include working with financial institutions to improve the recoverability of loans. In this regard he performs collateral audits for all the major German banks. His experience continues through to representing the financial institutions when payment is not forthcoming.
Another focus is advising foreign investors on how to restructure their investments in Germany when companies go into financial difficulties. He is also active in advising investors that wish to purchase a business from an insolvency administrator.
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Firm profile
Founded in 1984, Zellermayer, Pelossof & Co is one of Israel’s leading law firms. Its distinguished clients are both foreign and local, both public and private. The firm has been involved in many of the largest and most complex business ventures ever transacted in Israel.
Zellermayer, Pelossof & Co specialises in commercial and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, telecommunications, licensing, technology transfers, corporate financing and project development, energy, tax law, labour law, litigation, and bankruptcy and liquidations.
The firm has been involved in liquidations, receiverships and reorganisations of companies in major insolvency cases in Israel, as well as other related matters.
Ofer Shapira
Partner
Email ofer@zelpel.com
Ofer Shapira is the head of the Bankruptcy and Reorganisation Department of Zellermayer, Pelossof & Co. He specialises in securities enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency, receiverships, liquidations and schemes of arrangement, property law, banking and financial restructuring. He advises and represents banks and large companies in a wide variety of cases involving insolvency and securities, and has participated in liquidations, receiverships and company reorganisations in major insolvency cases in Israel. He also has substantial experience in corporate and commercial law, and litigation.
Mr Shapira was admitted to the Israeli Bar in 1993. He earned his LLB degree from Bar-Ilan University in 1992 and his LLM degree from Tel Aviv University in 1998 (cum laude). He is the author of Disencumbrance of Property Being Sold by an Authority Hapraklit 42 (1996) and Title Insurance in Israel, Land B (2003). He has lectured at the Advanced Studying Institute for Lawyers since 1999, and has also lectured in real estate law at the Building College, in contract law and securities law at Tel Aviv University, and in property law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzelya.