Geert Potjewijd is the resident partner of De Brauw’s Beijing office. He focuses on corporate matters, particularly mergers & acquisitions and related financing, and advise on all aspects of the structuring of investments through the Netherlands. He regularly works on cross-border transactions with international law firms in Asia, Europe and the US.

Geert specializes in corporate law and has been involved in mergers & acquisitions as well as in M&A-related litigation. He has represented corporate clients and institutional investors in complex shareholders and securities litigation and regularly advises on directors’ and officers’ liability.

Geert holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University and was seconded to a US law firm in New York in 2005. He is the author of a number of books and articles on corporate law and related subjects.