Netherlands-based Eversheds expanded its financial practice by hiring Steven Geerlings as the head of asset-based lending.

Geerlings returns to Eversheds after a three-year break since 2012 when he served as head of ABL in London. He will now be based in Amsterdam and will regularly travel to the UK and other EU member states.

Eversheds said Geerlings concentrates on structuring cross-border asset-based lending transactions and work-out strategies. His client base includes all major players in the European ABL market ranging from Dutch and UK clearing banks, various clearing banks in other EU member states and subsidiaries of U.S. banks, to other regulated and unregulated financial institutions.

Eversheds is one of the world’s largest corporate law firms. Committed locally, but connected globally, with offices based in the world’s major economic centres, with a proven track record of delivering consistently high quality legal services across jurisdictions.