Diederick Smit
Advocaat | Associate
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Diederick is a lawyer in the Restructuring & Insolvency practice group. He advises and litigates for companies, creditors, financial institutions and directors in various distressed and non-distressed situations. He is also involved in winding up bankruptcies. Diederick formerly worked in the Corporate Litigation practice group, focusing on commercial disputes and mass claims.
Diederick publishes on the subjects of company law and insolvency law. He is an editor at Boom legal publishers for its Insolvency Updates (INS Updates).
Diederick publishes on the subjects of company law and insolvency law. He is an editor at Boom legal publishers for its Insolvency Updates (INS Updates).
Education
- LL.M. Law and Business (cum laude) (Utrecht University)
- LL.B. Law (Utrecht University)
- B.A. Economics, Statistics & Law (cum laude) (University College Utrecht)
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Represented one of the major airlines involved in the air cargo cartel Dutch civil damage proceedings.
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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.
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Acting as the administrators appointed by the Amsterdam Court in the suspension of payment proceedings of Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. (a company listed on the Johannesburg and Frankfurt Stock Exchange), Houthoff oversaw the process leading up to the confirmation of the composition plan. This enabled Steinhoff to settle alleged claims for damages from 66,000 creditors totalling EUR 14 billion following from the group's disclosure of accounting irregularities in 2017.