Capital Markets

Gaby Smeenk + 12 other experts

Flexible, innovative capacity to spearhead niche transactions

We partner with our clients on their complex matters, marrying our expertise with transaction management skills, out-of-the-box thinking, and an adept gambit of innovative solutions. Our high deal flow ensures that our Capital Markets team is always aware of both regulators' perspectives and of current market practice.

Our two dedicated teams:

  • Equity Capital Markets - the largest pure-play equity capital markets team in the Netherlands, and
  • Debt Capital Markets - located in both London and Amsterdam.

maintain a worldwide network of leading law firms, and regularly work with them in fixed teams, and offer our clients first-class, cross-border services.

Equity Capital Markets

Involved in almost all major Dutch IPOs, we advise corporates and financial institutions with unrivalled advice in

• IPOs;
• listed and unlisted share issues;
• share buy-back programmes; and
• convertible bonds and derivatives.

"De Brauw’s capital markets team are one of the best I have worked with in 25 years. They clearly go the extra mile to ensure that they not only understand the legal issues at hand but also understand the commercial side of things."

Legal 500, 2024

Debt Capital Markets

Leading experts in:

• listed and unlisted bond issues;
• restructurings;
• EMTN programmes; and
• regulatory capital instruments products and Tier 1 transactions.

Insights

13 February 2026

Side-by-side: will acceptance of US minimum taxation standards impact EU competitiveness?

On 5 January 2026, the OECD published the Side-by-Side (SbS) Package. This package complements the OECD Inclusive Framework's model rules aimed at securing global 15% minimum taxation for large multinationals (referred to as "Pillar 2"). These minimum taxation rules have been implemented within the EU with effect from 1 January 2024.
25 September 2025

Our FY 2025 annual reporting checklist for Euronext Amsterdam-listed NVs

Annual reporting in the Netherlands is subject to extensive disclosure requirements, with rules being scattered across various legal sources and undergoing regular change. To make this complex legal framework more accessible, we have prepared a checklist that can be used for annual reporting relating to financial years that started on 1 January 2025.
23 September 2025

Consultation published on draft bill implementing EU multiple-vote shares directive

On 7 July 2025, the Dutch government published a draft bill implementing the EU directive on multiple-vote share structures (MVS Directive) into national law. The MVS Directive allows companies to introduce share structures where certain classes of shares provide more votes per share than other classes (high-vote/low-vote share structures). The directive only applies to companies not yet listed on a multilateral trading facility (MTF) or regulated market and seeking admission to the trading of their shares on an MTF.