NETHERLANDS Law and Practice Contributed by: Bastiaan Cornelisse, Bastiaan Kemp, Michel van Agt and Philippe Hezer, Loyens & Loeff
Loyens & Loeff is a fully independent and leading law firm, excellently positioned to co-ordinate (inter) national tax and legal matters from its home mar- kets of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. It can provide personal advice from any of its 1,000 advisers based in offices in the Benelux and Switzerland or in key financial centres around the world. Thanks to the firm’s full-service practice, sec- tor-specific experience and thorough understanding
of the market, its advisers comprehend exactly what clients need. Loyens & Loeff enjoys a well-respected reputation as a business law firm, both locally and abroad. Apart from its extensive M&A practice, the firm advises clients on a wide range of general cor- porate matters, including corporate governance, cor- porate compliance and housekeeping, and corporate structuring and reorganisations.
Authors
Bastiaan Cornelisse is a civil law notary and partner at Loyens & Loeff, and co-chair of the corporate expertise group. He specialises in providing Dutch corporate law advice to national and international clients.
Michel van Agt is a civil law notary and partner at Loyens & Loeff, and a member of the corporate expertise group and the capital markets team in the Amsterdam office. He focuses on Dutch corporate law and related
Bastiaan has experience in reorganising and restructuring companies, joint ventures, mergers, demergers, acquisitions and creating corporate structures.
notarial law. Michel advises multinationals, listed companies and investors on the full range of corporate transactions, including IPOs, (cross- border) M&A and private equity transactions.
Bastiaan Kemp is a partner at Loyens & Loeff, and a member of the dispute resolution expertise group in the Amsterdam office. He focuses on corporate and securities litigation, arbitration and corporate governance.
Philippe Hezer is a senior associate at Loyens & Loeff, and a member of the dispute resolution expertise group in the Amsterdam office. He specialises in class action defence and corporate law, including
Bastiaan sits as an arbitrator, and is a Professor at Maastricht University. He is also vice-academic director of the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies, the co-editor of the academic journal European Company Law, and a member of the editorial board of the Corporate Law Monthly Review and the corporate law advisory committee of the Bar Association and the Association of Dutch Civil Law Notaries.
corporate litigation, corporate governance and securities law. Philippe holds a PhD for his research on shareholder information rights, and regularly publishes academic contributions on both corporate law and corporate governance. He is a fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam, a member of the editorial board of the Dutch academic journal Corporate Law Monthly Review (Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht) and a member of the Association for Corporate Litigation in the Netherlands.
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