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The Dutch government has published a consultation draft of the 2027 Justice and Security Simplification Bill, proposing targeted technical amendments to Dutch company law for public limited liability companies (NVs), private limited liability companies (BVs) and associations. The proposed amendments are based on advice given by the Expert Group on NV Modernisation in 2024. The consultation period closed on 10 July 2026.

Data centres have become foundational infrastructure for the global economy. The sector is attracting investment at a scale and pace without modern precedent. Accelerating digitalisation, the computational demands of AI, and the strategic priority that governments now attach to sovereign compute capacity have together transformed data centres into pillars of national industrial strategy. Yet the regulatory and infrastructure frameworks that govern their development have not kept pace with that demand. A defining feature of the sector is a collision between the political and economic imperative to build at speed on the one hand, and the physical and regulatory constraints on the other. Congested electricity grids, lengthening grid connection queues, inflexible planning regimes, tightening environmental obligations, and an increasingly assertive foreign investment-screening apparatus are factors that ultimately determine whether, where, when, and on what terms a project can in fact proceed.

On 26 March 2026, the European Parliament approved a substantial legislative amendment to update and strengthen the recovery and resolution rules for the banking sector that the EU put in place after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008. The rules govern how banks in the EU are to be managed when they fail or are at risk of failing. They set out how losses are to be allocated and depositors protected, and enable resolution authorities to intervene in an orderly way. The new Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance (CMDI) package revises those rules to address structural weaknesses that have become apparent over the past decade of implementation, including the unavailability of the resolution framework for smaller and medium-sized banks.

De Brauw advised the underwriting banks on the US initial public offering of INNIO N.V., a global energy solutions provider for applications such as data centres. The IPO consisted entirely of a secondary offering by the selling shareholder AI Alpine, which is co-owned by funds managed by Advent International and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). It raised USD 2.43 billion.

Universal Music Group is a music and entertainment company active in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. It has been listed on Euronext Amsterdam since 2021. Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. is a New York-based hedge fund founded and managed by Bill Ackman.

De Brauw advised TenneT Netherlands B.V. on a decision by the Dutch central bank allowing credit institutions to treat exposures to TenneT as exposures to the Dutch central government. TenneT is the first Dutch company to obtain this status and to be included on the European Banking Authority's list.