Mergers & Acquisitions

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Involved in most of the leading M&A deals in the Netherlands

We provide services to a range of corporate clients and financial institutions on a broad spectrum of corporate and commercial matters. In addition to its mainstream mergers and acquisitions capability, our expertise encompasses private equity, corporate structures and reorganisations as well as corporate litigation.

We advise on public and private and public-to-private takeovers, private equity, acquisition finance, and acquisitions and divestments of major Dutch and international corporates and financial institutions active in the Netherlands.

Our legal advice focuses on achieving practical solutions when drafting and negotiating various forms of takeover and joint venture contracts, and undertaking merger control filings while coordinating global in-house and local counsel.

We continue to manage multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and divestments and we maintain strong working relationships with the leading firms in the United States, Asia and Europe.


'Extremely smart and commercially-minded lawyers who understand how to get cross-border deals done'.... another client commends the firm as the 'best overall law firm in the Netherlands', particularly praising the team's 'strong combination of flawless legal execution with a strong commercial and business mindset'.

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Insights

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.
25 March 2025

Dutch competition authority widens powers to call in M&A transactions

Competition authorities around the world are closing loopholes and asserting jurisdiction over mergers that have potentially harmful effects but that fall below quantitative merger-control thresholds. Some of the activities that give them cause for concern include anti-competitive effects in local markets, roll-up strategies, killing potential competition, and the stifling of future innovation. Authorities are increasingly taking the view that the size of an undertaking's revenue does not necessarily reflect that undertaking's effect on competition.
28 January 2025

Broader inbound and outbound investment screening to prevent technology leakage

The EU is taking action to counter the EU's single market's vulnerability to geopolitical developments. Although national security still falls within the decision-making of individual member states, the bloc has encouraged its member states to screen investments by third country investors for potential national security threats. In the Netherlands, for example, a general screening regime went live in June 2023, when the Vifo Act entered into force. This act covers investments in vital providers, sensitive technology and highly sensitive technology companies, and operators of business campuses (see our June 2023 article explaining the regime here). Likewise, almost all other EU member states have implemented screening regimes on foreign direct investments (FDI).