Arne Grimme is head of De Brauw’s Corporate M&A practice and is one of the leading M&A lawyers in the Dutch market. He advises on public and private transactions, leveraged buy-outs, complex cross-border transactions and corporate restructurings.

Arne has repeatedly been recognised as a leader in his field. He has been nominated for the Best M&A Lawyer Award every year since 2007 and has won this award seven times. Arne has been ranked as Star Individual in the Chambers European Guide for more than 20 years, and Legal 500 EMEA has also consistently named him a leading individual since 2009. In 2018, Arne was inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame. Moreover, IFLR 1000 has recognised Arne as one of the leading practitioners in mergers and acquisitions every year since 2006.

De Brauw was ranked No. 1 Legal Advisor in Europe for company-side engagements in Bloomberg's H1 2025 Global Activism Legal Advisers League Table. These rankings include financial, legal and investor-relations advisers, as well as proxy solicitors that support either companies or activists during activist or major M&A-related campaigns. Read this article where Arne talks about shareholder activism with M&A Community Netherlands.

Arne is a trusted adviser to many of the firm’s most high-profile Dutch and international clients, including Philips, AkzoNobel, ABN AMRO, ING, NN, Aegon, Exor, NXP, Ahold Delhaize, Achmea, Rabobank, BAM, ASML, FrieslandCampina, Corbion, Arcadis, TKH and Schiphol Airport. He also regularly acts for leading international private equity funds, including Advent, Bain Capital and CVC.

Arne's recent work includes advising and representing:

• Iveco Group N.V. on the envisaged recommended voluntary public offer by Tata Motors Limited for all issued common shares of Iveco, representing a total consideration of approximately EUR 3.8 billion
• Akzo Nobel N.V. on its all-stock merger of equals with Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., creating a premier global coatings company with an enterprise value of approximately USD 25 billion and revenue of approximately USD 17 billion
• as lead adviser, a consortium consisting of Advent International, FedEx Corporation, A&R Investments and PPF Group on the all-cash EUR 7.8 billion offer for InPost S.A., a leading European e-commerce solutions enabler specialising in out-of-home delivery and automated parcel lockers
• B&S Group, a consumer goods distribution and services group with a global network, on a recommended public offer by Sarabel, through its affiliate ELFB Investments Netherlands B.V., for all issued and outstanding shares in the capital of B&S valued at approximately EUR 518 million
• Koninklijke Philips N.V. in the EUR 2.5 billion cornerstone investment by EXOR N.V.