NETHERLANDS Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Maarten de Boorder, Bas Vletter, Samuel Garcia Nelen and Rutger Sterk Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international law firm with over 2,750 attorneys serving clients from 49 of - fices in Europe, the USA, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The firm’s dedicated global private equity practice comprises more than 150 attorneys who regularly work with regional, national and global private equity firms, advising them in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, financing transactions and fund formation. The practice also assists and advises portfolio companies, management teams, co-investors and other participants in all aspects of private equity transactions. The Amsterdam office of
Greenberg Traurig has a full-service offering and is home to more than 100 professionals, including ap - proximately 70 lawyers, tax advisers and civil-law notaries. The Amsterdam private equity practice handles straightforward and simple deals for those with novel and unique structures. It also handles mul - tiple high-growth deals, control acquisitions, growth equity minority investments, and stressed and dis - tressed transactions, for which it draws upon the vast resources of the firm’s restructuring and bankruptcy practice.
Authors
Maarten de Boorder is a shareholder in the private equity/M&A practice of Greenberg Traurig. Maarten advises on all aspects of M&A and corporate law, with a focus on private equity and venture capital transactions,
Bas Vletter is a shareholder heading the private equity/corporate practice of Greenberg Traurig’s Amsterdam office. He focuses his practice on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets
often with a technology/deep tech angle. In particular, Maarten has great depth of experience in dealing with multi-jurisdictional projects, often with a transatlantic point of focus (eg, assisting US companies investing in Europe and European companies investing in the Americas). In addition, Maarten has experience in setting up joint ventures, dealing with distressed assets and advising clients on matters relating to governance and shareholder disputes.
(public offers and IPOs), international and national joint ventures, and private equity. He has acted as legal adviser in several high-profile private and public transactions, including the first successful public hostile bid in the Netherlands. Bas is a trusted adviser to a number of Dutch-listed companies and their boards.
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