Kees van de Meent

Kees van de Meent is Co-Head of Addlehaw Goddard’s Netherlands office.

Kees heads the firm’s Cross-Border Asset Recovery team which represents victims of serious fraud, corruption and other economic crimes around the world. Having been a court-appointed trustee for more than 30 years he also advises on national and international insolvency matters and creditor rights. Van de Meent acts as court appointed trustee in international fraud-related bankruptcies.

AG’s Cross-Border Asset Recovery team is specialised in cases of cross-border asset recovery, fraud litigation (prosecuting civil claims for fraud), conducting financial fraud investigations in cooperation with forensic accountants and IT forensics, representing court-appointed trustees in fraud-related bankruptcies in order to recover stolen assets for the estate, representing (groups of) victims of boiler room frauds and anti-bribery cases. The team navigates complex legal issues such as cross-border enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards and multiple freeze actions.

Kees van de Meent is the Dutch representative of ICC’s FraudNet, the global network operating under the aegis of the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of Insol International, Insol Europe and Insolad.

Kees van de Meent is frequently invited to lecture within the Netherlands and abroad on the topic of combatting commercial fraud and asset recovery and is a co-author of Asset Tracing & Recovery: The FraudNet World Compendium.