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Vincent Bettonville

AKD

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Netherlands
Practice Areas:
Banking and finance
Financial restructuring
Project finance
Capital markets : Derivatives
Asset finance
Trade finance
Real estate finance
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Banking
Consumer goods and services
Energy
Technology and telecommunications
Transport
Food and beverage
Automotive
Oil and gas
Agriculture
Tourism
Languages:
Dutch
English
French
Biography

Vincent Bettonville has been a partner in the Banking & Finance section at AKD in Amsterdam since 2008. Formally the head of the Amsterdam office, Vincent leads the Finance and Structuring department since 2015. He has a broad financial practice but focuses on assisting clients in operational, asset, acquisition and project finance transactions, including LMA style (syndicated) loans and security arrangements, and on restructurings. In addition to advising on financial transactions, Vincent has a substantial corporate practice in which he advises international clients in tax-driven structures. Vincent also advises in relation to financial and corporate laws of Curacao.
 
Vincent has over twenty years of experience (most of which were spent living and practicing law in New York) in advising international clients, in particular European, U.S. and South American clients, as well as large domestic clients. 

Vincent graduated from Utrecht University in private law and international law with honors (cum laude) and has followed post-doctoral training at Oxford University. 

Vincent is a member of AKD’s legal opinion committee, and a member of the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Assisting a large group of noteholders in connection with the restructuring of a US based NYSE listed multinational that specializes in manufacturing of composite materials and coatings;
  • Assisting a UK based and internationally active real estate investment fund in various financings and portfolio investments and divestments;
  • Assisting a Dutch company operating in the field of logistic services in acquiring a credit facility from two internationally operating banks;
  • Assisting a Brazil based NYSE listed multinational chemical corporation on various financings and corporate structuring operations;
  • Assisting a large Dutch based multinational engaged in cutting and packaging of fruit and vegetables on various acquisitions, restructurings and financings;
Practice areas
  • Asset finance 
  • Banking 
  • Capital markets: Derivatives 
  • Financial restructuring 
  • Project finance 
  • Real estate finance 
  • Trade finance 
Sector specialisations
  • Agriculture
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services 
  • Energy 
  • Food and beverage 
  • Oil and gas 
  • Tech and telecoms 
  • Tourism 
  • Transport 
Bar admissions
  • Netherlands
Association memberships
  • IBA
  • ABA
Academic qualifications
  • LLM, Utrecht
Address:
Amsterdam
Tel:+31 88 253 5210 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.akd.nl/en/s/Pages/883512875.aspx