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Heather is a counsel at De Brauw’s Corporate practice and is based in Amsterdam. She has a broad-based background in M&amp;A law from North American and European perspectives. 
Heather has advised on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestments, joint venture arrangements, complex carve-out transactions and private equity investments in a broad range of industries. Her clients include domestic and international corporate clients in a variety of industries, and private equity funds.
Heather holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. She is qualified to practice in New York, and prior to joining De Brauw, she practiced at a major international law firm in New York.
Heather's recent work includes advising: 
<ul><li dir="ltr">Royal Philips N.V. in the divestment of its Domestic Appliances business</li><li dir="ltr">HEMA and its shareholders in the sale of HEMA to a consortium led by Parcom Capital and Mississippi Ventures</li><li dir="ltr">Akzo Nobel N.V. in the separation of its Specialty Chemicals business and the sale of the business to The Carlyle Group.</li><li dir="ltr">ASML Holding N.V. in its acquisition of the Taiwan listed company Hermes Microvision Inc.</li><li dir="ltr">Madison Industries in various investments in the Netherlands</li></ul>

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Heather Giannandrea

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Laura is a senior associate in the firm's Corporate/M&amp;A practice. She specialises in advising listed companies, large multinationals and private equity firms on M&amp;A transactions, including cross-border deals. Laura also has experience advising clients on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters, particularly in the context of M&amp;A transactions.

Between 2016 and 2018, Laura was based in De Brauw's Singapore office where she handled cross-border enforcement matters and internal investigations for EU companies involving foreign regulators. In 2015, she was seconded to Heineken International and to Flow Traders in 2022.
Laura is a guest lecturer on M&amp;A compliance and regulatory topics at the VU Law Academy.

Laura Stiekema

Senior Associate

Helen has extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, cartels, dominance, vertical restraints and state aid. Clients value her in-house and private practice expertise, which allows her to understand business drivers and offer clear and practical advice, even in the most complex of matters. She has particular expertise and interest in digital markets, including mergers in this field and the convergence of competition law with consumer and data protection. She also advises on competition law issues in a wide variety of other sectors, including life sciences, energy, industrial/chemical and sustainability.
Helen joined De Brauw in September 2018, moving from her position as Director Competition Law at Akzo Nobel NV, where she was responsible for competition law and merger control matters globally. Prior to this, Helen spent 12 years advising clients on competition law at two international law firms in London, Brussels and Amsterdam. She has worked extensively with economists across a range of matters.

Helen Gornall

Partner

Gurgen specialises in EU law and competition law. As a member of the Competition &amp; Regulation team, Gurgen has been involved in a number of major antitrust investigations, abuse of dominance matters and multi-jurisdictional merger filings. He is also experienced in litigating before both European and Dutch courts and in conducting large internal investigations. Gurgen was previously with the Banking &amp; Finance group, where he advised a number of multinationals in restructuring and loan finance matters.

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Gurgen Hakopian

Georgiana specialises in competition, privacy and data protection advising clients as regards administrative proceedings before national and European regulators and in civil proceedings before national courts. With a focus on managing complex multijurisdictional cases, her extensive experience includes a number of the most high profile competition and data protection damages claims in Europe and a range of merger clearance cases across a variety of sectors including digital platforms, medical services and devices, transportation and freight, packaging, construction, private equity, pensions.

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