A restructuring firm headed by the former leader of Germany’s DVB Bank is working with “several” potential buyers of the bank’s performing-loan shipping portfolio, TradeWinds has learned.

Former DVB chief executive and chairman Wolfgang Driese said in an interview that his DC Maritime Partners has interested clients as the issue of DVB’s disposal continues to escalate.

“They are both people we have approached and people who have reached out to us,” Driese said on the sidelines of a Capital Link Forum.