Linklaters elects Guido Portier as the new Managing Partner of the Amsterdam office

Linklaters has elected Guido Portier, civil law notary and head of the corporate law practice, as National Managing Partner of the Amsterdam office. He succeeds Jan Willem de Boer who has held this role for the past nine years.

Guido has extensive experience as a civil law notary in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, stock market listings (including SPACs) and financing. He has been involved in a large number of high-profile transactions, including the cross-border merger of Unilever, the sale of Philips Domestic Appliances to Hillhouse, the demerger of CarNext from LeasePlan and the sale of Unilever's tea division to CVC.

Under the leadership of Jan Willem de Boer, Linklaters Amsterdam has been the fastest growing law firm in the Netherlands over the past five years, with its primary focus always being on the quality of service. Guido will continue in this vein and focus on those parts of the Dutch legal market in which Linklaters, as an international firm with 31 offices in 21 countries, can distinguish itself.

Expectations regarding the quality and speed of international legal services continue to increase.

"As an international firm, Linklaters is in an excellent position to advise clients and work on cases at the high end of the market and we are therefore able to offer legal talent a challenging and attractive working environment", says Portier.

Jan Willem de Boer looks back on nine great years:

"The office is in excellent shape. Now that we are in calmer waters after the pandemic, I think this is the right moment for a change of leadership. I am convinced that Guido will lead the firm in the interests of both our clients and our entire team, and will continue to work towards our joint success."

De Boer himself will concentrate again on his role as a partner within the corporate law practice.