Marjolein van der Staaij
Senior Associate - Attorney at Law
Marjolein van der Staaij, attorney at law, is a senior associate within the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Amsterdam office. She focusses on insolvency law, including financial and corporate restructuring matters and litigation.
Amsterdam
Dutch, English
Marjolein advises and represents Dutch and international clients on complex restructuring and insolvency matters. Her experience includes Dutch and cross-border restructurings, WHOA proceedings, enforcement of security interests, insolvency proceedings and related financing arrangements. She advises companies, directors and financial stakeholders on a broad range of insolvency-related matters, including directors’ duties and liability, fraudulent conveyance and security rights. In 2024–2025, Marjolein was seconded to Loyens & Loeff’s London office.
Recent work highlights of Marjolein includes:
- advising an ad hoc group of financial creditors of the McDermott group on the implementation of a restructuring through parallel WHOA and UK RP processes
-advising an ad hoc group of financial creditors of the Steinhoff group in its WHOA restructuring process that was completed in 2023
- advising a large Dutch company on a WHOA restructuring process and subsequent consensual implementation
- advising an ad hoc group of creditors in summary proceedings before the Netherlands Commercial Court in a dispute about the transfer of (pledged) shares in the Frigoglass Group
- advising the management board of a large Dutch entity (with international subsidiaries) in the preparation to its bankruptcy
Work highlights
Contributions
Memberships
Dutch Bar Association
Association for young insolvency law associates (JIRA)
Dutch association for restructurings (NVvH),
Qualifications
LL.M Business Law, VU University Amsterdam, 2020
LL.B. Law, University of Utrecht, 2018
Publications
J.A. Dunki Jacobs & M.L. van der Staaij, "De taak van de curator binnen de vennootschappelijke orde", INSOLAD congresbundel 2023
M.L. van der Staaij & M.A.H. Enthoven, “Scoren met de WHOA: een succesvolle aanpak voor het herstructureren van voetbalclubs?”, TvI 2024/30
M.L. van der Staaij & M.D. Schuilwerve, “De Beklamel-norm en de WHOA: bestuurders in the danger zone?”, FIP 2025/273
K. De Bruijn, L. Janssen & M.L. van der Staaij, “Parallel Proceedings in Europe: the UK Restructuring Plan and the Dutch WHOA”, in: IJkpunten van vijf jaar herstructureren 2026/9 (NvvH lustrumbundel)
Marjolein van der Staaij
Senior Associate - Attorney at Law
marjolein.van.der.staaij@loyensloeff.com
Amsterdam
Dutch, English
<p>Marjolein van der Staaij, attorney at law, is a senior associate within the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Amsterdam office. She focusses on insolvency law, including financial and corporate restructuring matters and litigation. </p>
Marjolein advises and represents Dutch and international clients on complex restructuring and insolvency matters. Her experience includes Dutch and cross-border restructurings, WHOA proceedings, enforcement of security interests, insolvency proceedings and related financing arrangements. She advises companies, directors and financial stakeholders on a broad range of insolvency-related matters, including directors’ duties and liability, fraudulent conveyance and security rights. In 2024–2025, Marjolein was seconded to Loyens & Loeff’s London office.
Recent work highlights of Marjolein includes:
- advising an ad hoc group of financial creditors of the McDermott group on the implementation of a restructuring through parallel WHOA and UK RP processes
-advising an ad hoc group of financial creditors of the Steinhoff group in its WHOA restructuring process that was completed in 2023
- advising a large Dutch company on a WHOA restructuring process and subsequent consensual implementation
- advising an ad hoc group of creditors in summary proceedings before the Netherlands Commercial Court in a dispute about the transfer of (pledged) shares in the Frigoglass Group
- advising the management board of a large Dutch entity (with international subsidiaries) in the preparation to its bankruptcy