Profession
Advocaat, Member of the Netherlands and Amsterdam Bar
Experience
Specialises in corporate work, mainly in the areas of (cross-border) M&A (including public M&A), Private Equity and board room consulting. He also has considerable experience in and knowledge of the Energy & Utilities market and the market of financial institutions.
Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included:
- advising the municipality of Eindhoven and other shareholders on the sale of the grid company Endinet
- advising Royal Bank of Scotland and ABN AMRO on the break up of ABN AMRO as well as the accession of the Dutch State as a shareholder
- advising Amlin Plc on the acquisition of Fortis Corporate Insurance NV from the Dutch State
- advising The Dow Chemical Company as lead counsel in the sale of its stake in Total Raffinaderij Nederland
- advising Vattenfall as lead counsel in the acquisition of Nuon Energy
- advising Royal Bank of Scotland as lead Dutch counsel in the public offer for ABN AMRO
- advising AXA Group on taking a stake in Russia’s 2nd largest insurer, Reso Garantia
- advising Gazprom on its investment in the BBL gaspipe
- advising Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) on the acquisition of BP’s Dutch upstream and underground storage assets
- advising Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. and other consortium members on the acquisition of Sky Radio Ltd
- advising Royal P&O Nedlloyd as target on the public takeover by A.P. Møller – Mærsk
- advising the Dutch State on the acquisition of a minority stake in the Rotterdam Port Authorities
- advising the Dutch State on the acquisition of the national gas grid indirectly from Shell and ExxonMobiladvising Royal P&O Nedlloyd on the acquisition of the 50% stake in the joint venture P&O Nedlloyd from P&O together with a rights issue
Professional experience
2005 to date Partner, Linklaters Amsterdam
2000 - 2005 Partner, NautaDutilh N.V.
1998 - 2000 Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
1995 - 1998 Partner, NautaDutilh
1989 - 1995 Associate, NautaDutilh
1986 - 1989 Trainee Associate, Nauta Van Haersolte
Education
1984 University of Groningen, Law
Languages
Dutch, English, German
