Jan Marten van Dijk is active in the entire spectrum of financing work, with experience ranging from equity issues and bank lending to regulatory matters. His practice covers initial and secondary public offerings and a variety of bank financing transactions, including bilateral and syndicated corporate loans, acquisition financings and debt restructurings. He has acted as lead counsel and local counsel on international transactions, cooperating closely with other top tier firms in other jurisdictions. He also has in-depth experience in corporate investigations into corporate governance deficiencies and fraudulent actions. Within De Brauw, he is responsible for the Dutch opinion to ISDA on close-out netting under the ISDA Master Agreement.

Jan Marten was previously with  the Dutch Ministry of Justice in where he was a senior counsel focusing on European and Dutch company law. Jan Marten is still consulted by the Dutch government as an expert on matters concerning financial markets regulation matters. He also regularly publishes commentaries and articles in law journals.

Recent work includes advising:

• the consortium composed of Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Banco Santander on the regulatory aspects of the acquisition of ABN AMRO 
• Fortis on its EUR 13.4 billion rights issue in connection with the acquisition of ABN AMRO
• Havenbedrijf Rotterdam on its EUR 900 million facilities in connection with the development of the Tweede Maasvlakte
• Imtech on its EUR 270 million and GBP 20 million corporate facilities