Saskia Heumakers

Expertise

Portrait of Saskia
Saskia Heumakers is a partner in the Finance group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Distressed Situations group. She is also the co-head of the London office. Saskia focuses on cross-border restructuring transactions in addition to asset based lending and general corporate lending matters.
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  • Work highlights

    Recent deals include:

    • Schoeller Alibert – advising the company on its financial restructuring and recapitalisation
    • McDermott – advising the company on its financial restructuring implemented through parallel Dutch WHOA and UK Restructuring Plan proceedings
    • IGM Resins - advising a group of lenders on the financial restructuring of IGM Resins
    • BDR Thermea - advising the BDR Thermea group on its refinancing
    • Coface Finanz - advising Coface Finanz in respect of multiple factoring facilities in the Netherlands
    • Royal IHC – advising a group of lenders supporting Royal IHC’s restructuring plan through Dutch WHOA proceedings
  • What others say
    • Recognised as 'Rising Star' in the Restructuring and Insolvency category (The Legal500 EMEA guide 2024)
    • 'Saskia Heumakers is not only very smart but is also responsive, commercial and client facing.’ (The Legal500 2024)
    • ‘Marc Orval, Teun Struyken, Jinne van Belle, Saskia Heumakers and Lenneke de Baar are easy to approach, good communicators and have supported us in negotiating good results. The short lines of communication sets them apart.’ (The Legal500 2024)
    • ‘David Vietor and Saskia Heumakers were always available and made the legal aspects of the contract very approachable. They were punctual and made the deal happen in a very short and challenging time frame.’ (The Legal500 2023)
  • Qualifications

    Saskia graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2010, and completed a postgraduate course of financings and security rights at the Grotius Academy in 2014 (with honours). Before joining NautaDutilh in 2015, she was a legal counsel at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (Financial Restructuring & Recovery).

    Saskia is a member of the Dutch restructuring association (Nederlandse vereniging voor herstructureringen) and IWIRC, London chapter.

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