Rick van ’t Wout is a partner in De Brauw’s Employment, Pensions & Remuneration practice practice, where he focuses on remuneration and incentives. He advises PE, VC, corporates clients on management incentive plans, including sweet equity, SAR schemes, equity and equity-like plans, bonus schemes and LTIPs, as well as remuneration policies and executive compensation. Rick’s practice is closely connected to M&A, where he advises on incentives and other employment-related aspects of complex transactions.

Rick is recognised by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner in Employment and is described as a go-to lawyer for remuneration and incentive plans. Rick also contributes to thought leadership on remuneration and private equity, including publications on developments in respect of MIPs, Dutch bonus-cap rules in the financial sector and the Netherlands chapters of Lexology’s Private Equity guides.

Rick's recent work includes advising and representing:

• Bain Capital on the acquisition of HSO from Carlyle
• Advent International on the public offer (with consortium partners) for InPost
• AkzoNobel on the combination with Axalta
• Ardian on the acquisition of Attero from 3i and DWS
• Platinum Equity on its acquisition of Solo Group and XD Connects
• ECI on the acquisition of Paragin Group
• Mubadala Capital and Bugaboo on the acquisition of Joolz
• Astorg on a continuation fund deal regarding its portfolio company Normec
• Pollen Street Capital on its acquisition of the Keylane Group
• The founder of YER on the sale of a minority stake to Inflexion
• Advent International on the sale of Unit4 to TA Associates and Partners Group
• Deutsche Telekom on the sale of T-Mobile Netherlands to Apax and Warburg Pincus
• A broad range of PE, VC and corporate clients on the design and structuring of their management incentive schemes