Corporate Restructuring

Become a leading restructuring professional with this multidisciplinary executive programme

As a restructuring professional, your true impact begins when you master insights that go beyond your primary field of expertise. The Executive Programme Corporate Restructuring offers a unique multidisciplinary approach, integrating legal, financial, and operational perspectives. This ensures you develop the holistic knowledge necessary to lead successful corporate turnarounds and make superior decisions in high-stakes restructuring scenarios.

* the successful first edition and current second edition were offered by the Dutch Restructuring Association in collaboration with the VU Amsterdam.

Why choose this programme?

✔ Multidisciplinary Learning – Gain expertise in legal, operational, and financial restructuring to handle complex cases effectively.

✔ A Powerful Professional Network – Connect with restructuring leaders, industry experts, and like-minded professionals from legal, operational and finacial backgrounds.

✔ Academia Meets Practice – Get the latest knowledge from top-rated academics and industry professionals in real-life case studies.

✔ Hands-On Approach – Learn to apply a structured and well-rounded approach to increasinlgy complex corporate restructurings, directly into your daily work.

✔ Flexible Format for Executives – Designed for working professionals, with part-time sessions over one year.

Who should participate?

Are you a restructuring professional looking to elevate your expertise? This programme is tailored for professionals with at least five years of relevant experience in:

• Restructuring advisory
• Banking & corporate finance
• Insolvency law
• Debt advisory & investment
• Interim & turnaround management
• Private equity & distressed asset investment

Our admissions policy will ensure a diverse classroom of professionals from legal, operational and financial backgrounds, including the judiciary.

Programme and lecturers

Key Lecturers in the programme are:

prof. dr. Abe de Jong, professor of Corporate Finance and

prof. dr. Frank Verstijlen, professor of Private Law.

NB this list of lecturers is tentative:

• Jan Adriaanse, Professor in Turnaround Management at Leiden University

• Koos Beke, Partner Deals at PwC

• Sebastiaan van den Berg, Lawyer at Resor

• Leo Epskamp, Interim Director, Partner Custom Management

• Guido Grobbink, Managing Director at Standard Investment

• Hans Haanappel, Partner at Vantage Valuation

• Wim Holterman, Professor in Business Valuation, University of Groningen, Partner at Value Insights

• Bert Jansen, Lawyer and Partner at Dommerholt Advocaten

• Lucas Kortmann, Lawyer at Resor

• Khing Oei, Crypto Distressed & Special Situations Investor · Hedge Fund & Web3 Founder · Ex-GS & Fortress

• Chris Podt, Head of Financial Restructuring ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

• Gijs de Reuver, Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey's Financial Restructuring Group

• Evert Verwey, Senior Counsel at Clifford Chance

• Reinout Vriesendorp, Professor of Insolvency Law at Leiden University
  

The programme provides you with a corporate perspective on all phases: from awareness to final restructuring result.

Focus lies on crisis management, stakeholder management, understanding stakeholders’ positions and legal options, and managing the restructuring and negotiation process. It considers out-of-court as well as in-court restructuring, including restructuring processes under the Act on Court confirmation of extrajudicial restructuring plans (“WHOA”).

As part of the programme, you will understand the perspective of all major players and develop insights in all important turnaround topics.

Tentative programme:

Partner

The Dutch Restructuring Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Herstructurering) was founded (2020) with the aim to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the restructuring practice in the Netherlands as a jurisdiction for an efficient implementation of restructurings of both domestic and International companies.

One of the initiatives of this platform is to provide education. The Executive Programme Corporate Restructuring 2025-26 is designed and offered in cooperation with the University of Groningen.

The members are diverse in terms of their professional background and experience and reflect all stakeholders and parties who are involved in a financial restructuring process.

Contact

If you have any questions, or would like personal study advice, please contact our programme manager (University of Groningen Business School):

Antek Bosman

M: (+31) 06 319 213 11

E: a.c.bosman rug.nl