Band 3
Provided by Bart Heynickx
Bart has vast experience across the broad spectrum of insolvency and restructuring proceedings. He regularly assists creditors in protecting their positions and with the execution of their claims. On the other side, Bart has assisted several companies in financial difficulty to restructure their business and avoid insolvency scenarios. Finally, he advises third parties that are interested in taking over assets and staff from businesses in distress.
Further on Bart’s practices encompasses commercial litigation, both in contractual matters and in tort liability with a special focus on administrator liability, both in and outside insolvency scenarios.
Bart a member of AIJA, Etion, INSOL Europe and Co-Chair of INSOL Europe’s Anti-Fraud Forum.
- Belgium’s Pre-Pack Procedure: A Two-Year Reality Check, October 2025 (with Roel Verheyden)
- The IOS procedure: avoid the courts when recovering undisputed claims, March 2025 (with Charlotte Vandeurzen)
- BELGIUM – MüKo InsO 5th edition, volume 4, Länderberichte (reports), 2025 (with R. Verheyden)
- “La réforme de l’insolvabilité en Belgique: de la procédure prepack à l’harmonisation européenne”, Bulletin Joly Entreprises en difficulté, September-October 2023 – N°5, p.74-76
- “Harmonization within the EU: Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands”, Eurofenix – The Journal of INSOL Europe, Country Reports Winter 2023/24, p.32-33
- BELGIUM – MüKo InsO 4th edition, volume 4, Länderberichte (reports), January 2022 (with E. Goldschmidt).
- Effect of EU preventive restructuring directive on Belgian insolvency framework, October 2019
- Will ECJ decision on Belgian insolvency proceedings lead to increased redundancies?, May 2019
- Licence to contract – licence agreements and insolvency law, April 2019
- Effects of bankruptcy on spouses’ personal debts, December 2018
- Relationship between privileged and secured creditors, May 2018
- Administrator liability in bankruptcy framework, November 2017
- Insolvency in franchising relationships, February 2017
- “Belgium: Stricter rules regarding reorganisation proceedings”, Eurofenix – The Journal of INSOL Europe, Country Reports Winter 2015/16, p.40
- “Court supervised restructuring in Belgium”, Financier Worldwide, July 2014
- “Rente en kosten bij het Europees betalingsbevel”, RW 2014, 21, 815. (with Alexander Hansebout)
- “Commentaar op artikelen 51 en 55 WCO”, in M. VANMEENEN (ed.), Wet en Duiding: Becommentarieerd wetboek WCO en Faillissementswet”, Brussel, Larcier, 2015
Bart is fluent in Dutch, French, English and Spanish
Provided by Chambers
Bart Heynickx advises creditors and distressed companies on insolvency proceedings, restructurings and distressed asset takeovers. He has expertise in pre-pack insolvency procedures and judicial reorganisations.
Provided by Chambers
Bart Heynickx displays good communication skills.
Bart Heynickx is very pragmatic, didactic in the way he presents and has a good combination of the right technical skills, which is essential for insolvency deals.
Bart Heynickx displays good communication skills.
Bart Heynickx is very pragmatic, didactic in the way he presents and has a good combination of the right technical skills, which is essential for insolvency deals.