- Counsel at Stek (2025- today)
- Lawyer at A&O Shearman ( 2012 -2024)
Dawid Sztandera
Counsel
| Phone | +31 20 5305 296 |
|---|---|
| Mobile | +31 6 5369 0832 |
| dawid.sztandera@stek.com |
Dawid Sztandera is counsel in our Restructuring & Insolvency practice group. Dawid brings extensive expertise, having spent 12 years at A&O Shearman, where he established a strong reputation as a highly skilled and pragmatic lawyer specialising in financial restructuring and financing. His experience includes advising banks, debt funds, medium and large corporations, (supervisory) directors, sponsors, and shareholders on a wide range of matters, from financial structuring to insolvency. Dawid has been involved in several high-profile international and domestic cases, successfully implementing various restructuring strategies both in and out of court, including the ‘WHOA’ scheme.
Career
Highlighted matters
- Advising an internationally operating shipping company and its directors on its financial restructuring through a combined WHOA and English Scheme of Arrangement
- Advising a Dutch company in the metal industry and its directors on potential restructuring scenarios, including the enforcement of shares and a WHOA
- Advising a Dutch family-owned company in the shipping industry and its directors on the restructuring of its debts, including a debt-for-equity swap
- Advising a corporate services provider in multiple agency roles during the restructuring of an international retail chain through a WHOA
- Advising a US/UK distressed debt fund on a commercial mortgage-backed securitisation structure and the enforcement of mortgage rights over a real estate portfolio
- Advising a Dutch private equity fund as the purchaser of a Dutch educational services provider through the enforcement of shares
- Advising a mortgage holder on the sale of a Dutch power plant through the enforcement of mortgage rights
- Advising a Dutch retail chain and its directors on securing additional financing through the issuance of new preferred bonds
- Advising a Dutch energy company and its directors on obtaining interim financing
- Advising a Brazilian offshore company on the restructuring of its counterparty through an arrangement in suspension of payments
"Stek always has a very pragmatic approach when it comes to complex matters, looking to find a solution that works for both parties with a team of very capable lawyers."
