RoosSuurmond

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Roos Suurmond focuses her practice on insolvency law and restructuring, and she has served as a trustee and as an administrator for several years. She has also acted as a member of administrator teams in several high-profile cross-border bankruptcy cases, including Intertoys (the leading Dutch toy retailer) and Scotch & Soda.

Roos has handled regular appointments from the court involving a wide array of bankruptcy cases in the last several years. She also assisted in multiple cases relating to large Dutch schemes (WHOA) such as the Vroon Group and Diebold Nixdorf. Additionally, she acts as a member of a team taking appointments from the enterprise chamber as well as litigating in relation to directors and shareholders liability cases. Prior to joining Jones Day, Roos served legal internships with Dutch and international law firms and was a volunteer and board member at a legal organization that provides free legal advice to individuals who cannot afford a lawyer.

Experience

  • Monolithic Power Systems acquires Axign B.V.Jones Day represented Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., a leading company in high-performance power solutions, in the acquisition of Axign B.V., a Netherlands-based fabless semiconductor startup that specializes in programmable multicore DSP (digital signal processors) that demonstrate near-zero distortion signals with significantly reduced power consumption for automotive and consumer audio systems.
  • Diebold Nixdorf obtains $1.25 billion senior secured exit credit facilityJones Day represented Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated, a multinational financial and retail technology company that specializes in the sale, manufacture, installation, and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs and currency processing systems), point-of-sale terminals, physical security products, and software and related services for global financial, retail, and commercial markets, in connection with a new $1.25 billion senior secured term loan facility as part of it’s emergence from chapter 11 bankruptcy and other domestic and foreign court-supervised restructuring proceedings.
  • Diebold Nixdorf successfully restructures over $2.7 billion in funded debt and completes the first-ever dual proceeding under the U.S. bankruptcy code and Dutch restructuring law in 71 daysIn the first-ever cross border restructuring involving dual main proceedings under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and a scheme of arrangement (the "Dutch Scheme") under the Dutch Act on Confirmation of Extrajudicial Plans (Wet Homologatie Onderhands Akkoord ("WHOA")), and the first-ever chapter 15 recognition of Dutch Scheme proceedings and a sanctioned WHOA reorganization plan (the "WHOA Plan"), Jones Day represented Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated ("Diebold") and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries (the "Debtors") in connection with (i) the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of In re Diebold Holding Company, LLC, et al., (Case No. 23-90602-DRJ) commenced on June 1, 2023, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the "Bankruptcy Court"); (ii) the Dutch Scheme, commenced on June 1, 2023 by Diebold Nixdorf Dutch Holding B.V. (the "Dutch Issuer") in the District Court of Amsterdam (the "Dutch Court"), and (iii) the chapter 15 proceedings before the Bankruptcy Court commenced by the foreign representative of the Dutch Issuer, wherein the Bankruptcy Court recognized the Dutch Scheme proceeding as a foreign main proceeding and recognized and extended comity to the WHOA Plan that was sanctioned by the Dutch Court.
  • Scotch & Soda sold to Bluestar AllianceJones Day acted as administrator to Amsterdam-based Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda in its sale to Bluestar Alliance, a New York-based brand management company.
  • Eurobio Scientific acquires GenDxJones Day advised Eurobio Scientific SA in the acquisition and financing of the Dutch company Genome Diagnostics BV (GenDx) from its founder and its shareholders for €135 million (net of adjusted cash).
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