Paul Cronheim specialises in corporate law including mergers and acquisitions. He has handled a wide range of Dutch and cross-border public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, auctions and joint ventures. His practice includes acting as regular outside counsel to listed and privately held companies, and advising on corporate finance matters, corporate governance and shareholders issues. Paul has also handled numerous private equity transactions on both buy and sell side.
Recent work includes advising:
- JP Morgan as principal financial advisor to Deutsche Börse in its proposed combination with NYSE Euronext
- Brit Insurance on the recommended EUR 1 billion public offer by Apollo and CVC
- Corio on the EUR 1.3 billion acquisition of operational shopping centres and development projects in Germany, Spain and Portugal from Multi Corporation
- Océ on the EUR 730 million recommended public offer by Canon
- KPE, the KKR fund listed in Amsterdam, on the USD 4.6 billion sale of its business to KKR
- Danone on its EUR 12.3 billion recommended public offer for Numico
- Grolsch on the EUR 816 million recommended public offer by SABMiller
- Sanofi-Aventis on its uninvited and subsequently recommended EUR 1.8 billion cash offer for Zentiva.
In addition to being a member of the Netherlands Bar, Paul has been admitted to practise law in New York and is an (inactive) member of the California Bar. Paul joined De Brauw in 1983 and has been a partner since 1990. In 1987 he established a branch office in Los Angeles, where he worked until 1990. From 1990 to 1992 Paul was resident partner in De Brauw's New York office. In 2002 he joined the teaching faculty of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance.
Paul has been a member of the Steering Committee of EALIC, one of the predecessors of European Issuers. He serves on the Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and is included in the list of arbitrators of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and the International Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitrations Association. Paul has been involved as counsel or arbitrator in numerous ICC, AAA and NAI arbitrations.
