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Biography

Ferdinand is a lawyer and partner with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, in their Amsterdam office. He specializes in international debt restructuring, corporate recovery and special situations financing deals. Ferdinand’s broad practice encompasses both tailor-made finance deals and insolvency-sensitive transactions or litigation, always in a cross-border context. He has extensive expertise in the areas of corporate governance, fiduciary duties and liability considerations around funding and scenario planning, particularly in the context of financial distress. If you look at his deal sheet on the firm’s bio, you will see that he handles the largest and most sophisticated deals in our space. Ferdinand is also consistently Chambers ranked and a member of INSOL International’s prestigious Fellows program. He heads the Africa practice for his law firm and is a frequent speaker and writer on insolvency-related topics. Ferdinand is licensed to practice in the Netherlands.