Deborah Zandstra leads Clifford Chance's Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Advisory Group in the firm's finance practice. She participates in a number of industry bodies and expert groups, including the Institute of International Finance's Sovereign Risk Management Committee; the Financial Markets Law Committee's Sovereign Debt Scoping Forum (and working groups on collective action and pari passu clauses); International Capital Market Association's (ICMA) Sovereign Bond working group; and the International Law Association's study group on sovereign insolvency. Mrs Zandstra advised ICMA on its Aggregated  collecitve action and pari passu clauses first published in the ICMA Primary Handbook in August 2014. She is a graduate of Cambridge University where she studied history and law.