Geert Potjewijd is the resident partner at De Brauw’s Beijing office. He focuses on corporate matters, particularly mergers and acquisitions and related financing, and advises 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 specialises in corporate law and has been involved in mergers and 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.