Diederick van der Plas

Diederick van der Plas is Co-Chairman of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and Head of EMEA Corporate Finance.

Diederick has over twenty years’ experience advising a wide range of stakeholders in stressed and distressed situations. He has acted as lead financial advisor on high profile financial restructurings in the UK, Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of stakeholders, including senior and junior lenders, bondholders, corporates and private equity.

Diederick specialises in complex, multi-stakeholder, cross-border debt restructurings, including the refinancing and restructuring of debt facilities, raising new money, amending existing facilities and the equitisation of debt. He also has extensive expertise in dealing with listed businesses both the UK and internationally, and has acted as lead financial advisor on a variety of pan-European and global restructurings.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Diederick spent 18 years at PwC, where he was the global leader of PwC’s Restructuring Practice. Prior to joining PwC in 2000 he worked for Bank of America in the USA.