Karien specialises in insolvency law and restructurings. She is particularly interested in international restructurings, such as the restructuring of Agrokor d.d. in Croatia. In addition, Karien is regularly appointed as a bankruptcy trustee by the Amsterdam District Court and is the liquidator of Lehman Brothers’ Dutch division. She was also involved in various capacities in proceedings based on the Court Approval of a Private Composition (Prevention of Insolvency) Act (Wet homologatie onderhands akkoord, or WHOA). Karien advises directors, companies and creditors in diverse insolvency situations. As such, Karien covers the full breadth of the restructuring and insolvency fields.
Karien van Boekel
Attorney-at-law | Counsel
- Assisted the AMC and VUmc hospitals in obtaining the required approval from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) for an administrative merger. The approval enables the two Amsterdam-based university medical centres to cooperate on patient care, research, education and training without limitation. This will create the biggest university medical centre in the Netherlands.
- Acted as one of two court-appointed observers in the Dutch restructuring scheme ("WHOA") of Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.
- Advised and represented Finqus B.V. and DSB Bank N.V. (in bankruptcy) on the sale of Finqus' loan portfolio with a purchase price of approx. EUR 1.5 billion to NIBC Bank N.V.
- Specialisation Course Insolvency Law (Grotius Academy/INSOLAD)
- LL.M. Company Law and Insolvency Law (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- M.Sc Business Administration (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2015
- Member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (INSOLAD), INSOL Europe, INSOL International, the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- NextGen member to the International Insolvency Institute (III)
- Publishes the annual WHOA chronicle in the Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht insolvency law journal
- Regularly lectures on insolvency law
Dutch, English
