Profession
Advocaat (Member of the Netherlands and Amsterdam Bar)
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Experience
Specialises in capital markets and financial regulatory work. Main areas of practice include equity, equity-linked and bond issues (including hybrid/regulatory capital), medium-term note and commercial paper programmes, structured notes and warrant issues, financial regulatory advice.
Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included:
- IPOs/public share offerings (e.g. Samas N.V., Tulip Computers N.V., Endemol N.V., Pyaterochka Holding N.V., Draka Holding N.V., Royal KPN N.V., PinkRoccade N.V., Getronics N.V., Royal Numico N.V.)
- Accelerated bookbuilds and Block trades (e.g. USG People N.V., ABN AMRO Holding N.V., Eurocommercial Properties N.V.)
- Convertible bonds (e.g. Getronics N.V., Draka Holding N.V., Royal Numico N.V., VNU N.V.)
- Regulatory Capital (e.g. ING, Eureko B.V., Friesland Bank N.V., Rabobank, DSB Bank N.V.)
- State capital injections in banks (ING)
- Corporate hybrids/perpetual subordinated bond issues (e.g. Friesland Coberco, Wolters Kluwer N.V.)
- Bond issues (e.g. Euronext N.V., Heineken N.V., Wolters Kluwer N.V.)
- Medium Term Note Programmes (e.g. Royal KPN N.V., ING, Rabobank, Bank of America, Eureko B.V., F. van Lanschot Bankiers N.V.)
- State Guaranteed Debt Programmes and State Guaranteed Debt Issues (ING)
- Commercial Paper Programmes (e.g. ING Bank N.V., Royal DSM N.V., The State of the Netherlands, Rabobank, n.v. Nuon, N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, Athlon Groep N.V.)
- Tender offers and/or exchange offers (e.g. DSB Bank N.V., Getronics N.V., TNT N.V., Wolters Kluwer N.V.)
- Structured notes and warrant issues (e.g. ING, Commerzbank, Société Générale)
Professional experience
2004 - Partner, Linklaters Amsterdam
2000 - 2004 Partner, Allen & Overy Amsterdam
1997 - 2000 Associate, Loeff Claeys Verbeke/Allen & Overy Amsterdam
1994 - 1997 Trainee, then associate, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam and London
1989 - 1993 Investment banker, MeesPierson N.V., Amsterdam and London (Registered Representative Corporate Finance with the Securities and Futures Authority)
1987 - 1988 Commissioned officer, Military Intelligence Service, Royal Netherlands Army
Education
1985 - 1987 Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management, exchange student at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (MBA)
1981 - 1985 University of Leiden (Law)
Languages
Dutch , English , German , Russian
