Hugo van der Molen

Hugo is a Counsel in the Amsterdam Capital Markets practice. Hugo advises financial institutions and large corporate entities on international capital markets transactions and the changing regulatory landscape for both banks and corporate issuers. He is an experienced lawyer who is specialised in a broad scope of international capital markets offerings, including (CRD compliant) bank (hybrid) capital, EMTN programmes, Green/ESG bonds, securitisations, trade receivables financings, SPACs and corporate hybrid offerings. 

Hugo is closely following the developments on new technology offerings within the capital markets such as tokenisation and digitisation of debt and equity issuances.

During client secondments, Hugo also gained experience as an inhouse counsel at various financial institutions.

Work highlights

• ABN AMRO and Rabobank: advising on structuring and documenting a new type of Dutch law governed bank bonds, called 'senior non-preferred notes'.
• the Joint Lead Managers on LeasePlan Corporation N.V.'s: advising on the issuance of €1bn Green Bonds.
• the Joint Lead Managers: advising on various RMBS issuances by Dutch Property Finance entities with RNHB B.V. acting as originator of the underlying buy-to-let mortgage loans.
• the Joint Lead Managers: advising on de Volksbank's successful inaugural issuance of €500m subordinated Tier 2 green bonds.
• PostNL N.V.: advising on its inaugural €300m Green Bond.
• ABN AMRO: advising on its successful issuance of EUR 1 billion debut additional tier one (AT1) instruments.

Hugo joined the Linklaters Amsterdam office as Counsel in 2021 with over 10 years’ experience, after having worked in other global law firms. He has been consistently identified as an ‘associate to watch” or ‘rising star’ by Chambers and IFLR and as a ‘Tier 1 key lawyer’ by Legal 500.

Hugo speaks Dutch, English and Portuguese.

Further experience includes:

• ABN AMRO, LeasePlan and Rabobank: advising on their bank (hybrid) capital issuances.
• ABN AMRO: advising on offering of US$1.5bn RegS CRD IV compliant Tier 2 capital instruments on Asian and European markets.

Hugo gained a Bachelor and Master's Degree in Law as well as a Bachelor's Degree in American Studies both from the University of Groningen.

Hugo (co-)authored a number of articles:

This article, which is co-authored by Hugo van der Molen and Tom van Steenbrugge’s was published in the Financial Law magazine.

• “Sustainable Finance - The Rise of Sustainability Linked Bonds (SLBs)”.