Arne Grimme is head of De Brauw’s Corporate M&A practice. He advises on public and private transactions, leveraged buy-outs and complex cross-border transactions and corporate restructurings.
Arne has been repeatedly recognised as a leader in his field, having been nominated for the Best M&A Lawyer Award since 2007. He won the award “Best M&A Lawyer” in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Legal 500 EMEA has also consistently named him a leading individual from 2009. Moreover, IFLR 1000 has recognised Arne as one of the leading practitioners in mergers and acquisitions every year since 2006. Arne was named “Lawyer of the Year” in the Best Lawyers 2014-2015 edition (Netherlands community) in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law.
In 2018 he was also inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame. Furthermore, his many accolades include being ranked first tier in M&A and private equity by Chambers.
Arne is a trusted advisor to many of his clients, and counts among his diverse client base Philips, AkzoNobel, NXP, Rabobank, BAM, Corbion, Arcadis, Bain Capital, Gilde, CVC Capital, and Schiphol Airport.
Notable transactions include representing:
Furthermore, he also advised; Bpost on the unsuccessful public offer on PostNL, Shareholders of Q-Park on their EUR 2.95 billion divestment of shares to KKR Infrastructure; and Bain Capital Private Equity on the acquisition of Bugaboo.
28 January 2020
29 September 2019
18 January 2019
7 August 2018
A blog by Arne Grimme – The failed Qualcomm/NXP bid in 5 Delft tile wisdoms
7 August 2018
A blog by Arne Grimme – The failed Qualcomm/NXP bid in 5 Delft tile wisdoms
3 July 2018
A blog by Arne Grimme – Growing pains: Haviltex comes of age
8 May 2018
17 April 2018
15 December 2017
1 June 2017
AkzoNobel v. Elliott: landmark case on board conduct in takeover situations
16 December 2016
10 December 2015
M&A Community Awards: De Brauw Best Dutch M&A Law Firm and Arne Grimme Best M&A Lawyer 2015
17 July 2015
Best Friends Group leads European M&A league table by volume
12 December 2014
29 October 2014
Getting the Deal Through – interview with De Brauw’s Private Equity experts
30 July 2014
Best Friends network leads M&A league tables in the first half of 2014
12 December 2013
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