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Mr. dr. A.M. Mennens Anne Attorney
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Anne Mennens joined Wijn & Stael as attorney in 2019, focusing her practice on financing, securities, leasing, restructuring and insolvency. She counsels and represents clients in litigation matters involving (impending) bankruptcy, leasing and the termination of credit facilities. Anne has specific experience in restructuring and with the Dutch Scheme (Wet Homologatie Onderhands Akkoord (‘WHOA’).​

Complex Litigation
Anne is a driven and dedicated attorney with great analytical skills. She has incredible legal acumen and an impressive track record in complex litigation. “I am a stickler for quality; I don’t like half measures and loose ends, which is why I always make sure that my documents are watertight and leave no room for error or misunderstanding. I look for creative ways to express the client’s point of view as clearly as possible.”

Knowledge of Science and the Practice
Anne is a PhD graduate of the Radboud University Business & Law Research Center, where she wrote her dissertation on ‘pre-insolvency restructuring proceedings designed to rescue viable businesses and prevent formal insolvency proceedings’. She also was contracted out to ING Wholesale Banking Legal and regularly provides training programs on (pre-)insolvency law.

Professional Activities

  • Member of the State committee on Insolvency Law
  • Fellow of the Radboud University Business Law Institute
  • Regularly publishes case notes and journal articles on a range of subjects surrounding (pre-)insolvency and restructuring.
  • Frequently teaches as guest lecturer at academic and post-academic institutions
  • Member of the knowledge development committee of the Dutch Restructuring Association
  • Member of INSOL Europe and the Netherlands Association for Comparative and International Insolvency Law (NACIIL)
  • Member of the editorial board of ‘Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht’, the Dutch insolvency law journal

Academic Background

  • PhD in Law, 2020
  • Business and Law Research, Research Master, Radboud University, 2013

Representative Practice

  • Represented a bank in precedent-setting (Supreme Court) litigation concerning fundamental legal questions surrounding set-off in the face of insolvency.
  • Represented a bank in precedent-setting (Supreme Court) litigation concerning bank guarantees and recourse rights under the Dutch WHOA
  • Acted for a range of financial creditors in several WHOA restructuring cases.
  • Acted for a creditor in proceedings concerning the enforceability and the scope of a security right.
  • Represented a company director in a liability lawsuit over a restructuring plan.
  • Counseled a business through a successful restructuring under the Dutch WHOA. 
  • Drafted an opinion for a leasing company on the legal aspects of cross border insolvency issues.
  • Counsels regularly on the content and drafting of composition plans.

Bar register of legal practice areas
Anne has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

  • Insolvency law

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.