Linklaters launches Dutch insolvency team with Simmons

Linklaters has launched a restructuring and insolvency practice in the Netherlands with the hire of a Simmons & Simmons partner. Corporate recovery lawyer Paul Kuipers joins Linklaters' Amsterdam office today as counsel from Simmons' local office. The launch of the Dutch restructuring & insolvency practice follows the launch of the firm's Dutch tax and employment practices last year.