Mariken is head of our Financial Markets Regulation group and co-head of our Financial Institutions group. She focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions –with a particular emphasis on regulatory capital transactions, recovery and resolution planning, and governance – and she has broad experience in advising on regulatory matters that arise in complex transactions. Mariken also advises on licence requirements and on the ongoing obligations for a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, brokers, insurance companies and payment institutions.

In 2019, Mariken was inducted into the Legal 500 category 'leading individual' in the 'Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory'.

Chambers describes her as "a trusted boardroom adviser who is practical and solid."

Mariken’s recent work includes advising:

• ABN AMRO on its listing on Euronext Amsterdam
• Rabobank and its subsidiary DDL on the sale of Athlon Car Lease to Daimler AG for EUR 1.1 billion
• Rabobank on the listing of its Member Certificates on Euronext Amsterdam
• A consortium of investors on the acquisition of LeasePlan for EUR 3.7 billion
• APG on the EUR 450 million sale of its insurance subsidiary Loyalis to a.s.r., in a controlled auction
• The TAF shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in the company
• Aon on the EUR 295 million acquisition of Unirobe Meeùs Group from Aegon
• NN Group on the termination of the strategically important 9.99% warrant agreement held by ING since the IPO
• Achmea on the sale of Independer
• BHIIL, a UK-based commercial insurer, on its strategy for entering the Dutch commercial underwriting market and on the application or a license from the AFM as insurance underwriter