Joep is a lawyer in the Restructuring & Insolvency practice group. He advises trustees, directors, creditors, and debtors in complex, international restructurings and (pre-)insolvency situations. Joep has also been involved in various WHOA proceedings. Previously, he worked in our Corporate Litigation department at Houthoff.
Joep Meester
Attorney-at-law | Senior Associate
- Represented Fortenova Group, the largest food producer and retailer in South-Eastern Europe with an annual turnover of EUR 5 billion and 47.500 employees, in the implementation of a comprehensive restructuring resulting from the presence of sanctioned debt and equity holders in its capital structure and cross-border litigation in connection therewith.
- Advised the ad hoc group of creditors to the Consolis group in the successful implementation of its comprehensive recapitalization.
- Advising the Derivatives Committee on the creation of the Uniform Recovery Framework for Interest Rate Derivatives, a compensation mechanism that compensates Dutch SMEs for interest rate derivatives they purchased from the six largest banks in the Netherlands.
- Law Firm School (cum laude)
- LL.M. Corporate Law (University of Leiden)
- LL.B. Law (University of Leiden)
- B.A. in History (Leiden University)
- Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2018
Dutch, English
