Loet Venrooy

Advocaat | Partner

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Loet Venrooy
Amsterdam
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Practice Areas

Banking and Finance
Projects and Project Finance

Sectors

Financial Services

Languages

Dutch
English

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Loet heads Houthoff's Banking & Finance practice group.

He focuses on domestic and international banking and finance transactions, including real estate finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, syndicated and bilateral lending, and structured and asset-based financing. Moreover, he specializes in financial restructuring and has an excellent track record in the purchase and sale of loan portfolios. His clients include financial institutions, private equity firms and all kinds of (investment) funds as well as corporates.

Loet regularly lectures on banking and finance law. Legal 500 has acknowledged Loet as a Leading Individual in the field of Banking & Finance: Lender Side.

  • "Loet Venrooy is a great problem-solver and his knowledge of how to get things done is unparalleled. He offers his clients an unparalleled degree of specialisation."
    Chambers Global, Banking & Finance (2025 Edition)
  • Recommended
    Chambers Global, Banking & Finance (2025 Edition)
  • “One client says that 'Loet is a great problem solver and his knowledge of how to get things done is unparalleled'.”
    Chambers Global & Europe, Banking & Finance (2024 Edition)
  • Leading Individual
    Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Lender Side (2024 Edition)
  • "A client mentions that: ‘Loet Venrooy has unique experience in advising on borrower-side financing work. He is a great problem solver and his knowledge of how to get things done is unparalleled. Moreover, Loet offers his clients an unparalleled degree of specialisation’."
    Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Borrower Side (2024 Edition)
  • Recommended
    Chambers Global & Europe, Banking & Finance (2023 Edition)
  • Leading Individual
    Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Lender or arranger side (2023 Edition)
  • "One client commented: ‘Loet Venrooy has unique experience advising on the borrower-side of financings. He is a great problem solver who offers his clients an unparalleled degree of specialisation.’"
    Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Lender or arranger side (2023 Edition)
  • “Loet Venrooy, heading the practice, has a unique experience in advising on borrower-side financing work. He is a great problem solver and his knowledge of how to get things done is unparalleled. Loet moreover offers his clients an unparalleled degree of specialisation.”
    Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Borrower Side (2022 Edition)

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

  • Economics and Business Administration (Nyenrode Business University)
  • Law (Leiden University)
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance Nederland on the carve-out of Findio (a provider of car finance products) out of the CACF Nederland group and the sale of Findio to FCA Bank.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised Alliander N.V.'s shareholders regarding reaching consensus on the 'Framework of Agreements on Capital Requirements of Regional Grid Operators'.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised Provincie Zeeland on the unbundling of Evides B.V. from PZEM N.V. and the related sale of the shares held by PZEM N.V. in Evides N.V. to GBE Aqua B.V. and the financing thereof by BNG.
  • Highlighted Matters
    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.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised the Municipality of Amsterdam in relation to the financial restructuring of its 100% subsidiary AEB (Amsterdamse Afval Energie Bedrijf).
  • Highlighted Matters
    Houthoff recently advised on the financing of the Amvest Residential Core Fund with an accordion credit facility of EUR 1 billion.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised on the acquisition of the shares in the IEF portfolio by a consortium led by CBRE Global Investors (three institutional investors from the Netherlands, plus CBRE Dutch Retail Fund). IEF is a joint venture formed by Bouwfonds Investment Management and IEF Capital. The portfolio consists of 31 Dutch retail properties (mostly flagship stores), including the well-known Dutch retail chains HEMA and de Bijenkorf.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised publicly listed investment fund Value8 on all of its capital markets transactions including its reverse acquisition of Source Group, a publicly traded parent company of a group of companies that focuses on managing contracts of external personnel and the mediation of IT professionals, and its takeover acquisition of health care company Kersten Next B.V., a Dutch specialist in mobility, health care and communication devices.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised RET (Rotterdam's public transport company) on its first external financing.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Houthoff advised Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Neuberger Berman on a large Sharia based financial restructuring.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Houthoff advised ABN AMRO Bank, ING Bank and ABN AMRO Lease on a complex asset based financial restructuring and LTV pool based financing of an international group of companies.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Houthoff advised Attestor in relation to the acquisition of a substantial (distressed) loan portfolio of one of the Dutch larger banks.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised 15 banks, including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and HSBC on the USD4.4 billion project financing to Oyu Tolgoi LLC. The Oyu Tolgoi mine is one of the largest copper and gold mines in the world and is located in Mongolia.
  • Highlighted Matters
    Advised on the refinancing of the Amvest Residential Core Fund by means of a new EUR 700 million loan.

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