Transactions
Banking and Finance:
- Yandex N.V., advising on its IPO and listing on NASDAQ Global Select Market
- Almatis restructuring, acting for GSO Capital Partners
- Acquisition financing of Royal Bank of Scotland (WorldPay) by Bain Capital and Advent International
- Hospital financing for new construction Meander Medisch Centrum
- Aareal Bank regarding acquisition refinancing of Invesco Europe Hotel Portfolio, as well as financial restructuring of the Hilton Hotel in the Hague
- Rabobank on the project financing of a biomass production plant, as well as on the project financing of a torrefaction plant
- InterXion Holding N.V., advising Initial Purchasers and Arrangers - Senior Secured Notes Issue
Corporate/M&A:
- Sale of all shares in Action by the shareholders and incorporators of Action to 3i
- GSO Capital Partners regarding the financial restructuring and recapitalisation of the Dutch-based Almatis group
- Acquisition Strukton N.V. from NS Groep N.V. by Oranjewoud N.V.
- Acquisition RBS WorldPay from Royal Bank of Scotland PLC by Bain Capital and Advent International
- Acquisition Greencore Group PLC by Parcom (ING Private Equity)
- The Dockwise Ltd. listing on Euronext
- SkyTeam, the world's second largest airline alliance, and the restructuring of its 'Alliance Membership Structure'
- Acquisition Fortis ASR Bank N.V. from Fortis Bank Nederland N.V. by ASR Verzekeringen N.V.
- Ziggo on the acquisition by Cinven and Warburg Pincus
Property
- Project developers AM and Ymere in the development of the new Waterlandplein in North Amsterdam
- Schiphol Area Development Company N.V. in its share capital increase, and projects including Badhoevedorp-Zuid, Business Park Amsterdam Osdorp and De President
- Aberdeen European Balanced Property Fund in the purchase of shopping centres in the heart of ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Public Private Partnership
- Schiphol Area Development Company N.V. in its share capital increase
- Freeport Monrovia, Liberia
- Meerstad PPP on delivering 10,000 homes over a period of some 25 years in the area between the municipality of Groningen and the municipality of Slochteren
- Municipality of Amstelveen on various construction projects being developed in collaboration with property developers and housing associations
- Ministry of Defence on developing the new headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Army by means of a public private partnership (Kromhout Barracks)
Tax
- Yandex NV on its IPO and listing on NASDAQ Global Select Market
- Hunkemöller management on its management participation plan
- SkyTeam, the second to largest airline alliance in the world
- DTEK Finance B.V., a group company of DTEK Corp., the Ukrainian mining conglomerate, on its issue of USD 500 million notes
- Underwriters IPO Sensata Technologies Holding N.V., the largest IPO year-to-date (at time of closing) on the NYSE
- Dockwise on its listing on Euronext
Clients
Information Technology
- Foreign government
- Government cooperative Wigo4it
- Dutch government during a dispute with an IT supplier
- Cooperative in the agricultural sector
- GGD Amsterdam, the largest muncipal medical and health department in the Netherlands
Intellectual Property
- Pfizer in several lawsuits against infringers
- Dell on enforcing its IP rights
- A&R Carton in patent proceedings
- Karel Appel Foundation
- Playmobil
Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Outsourcing Services Provider in executing a pan-European outsourcing agreement
- One of the largest travel organisations in the Netherlands during contract negotiations about outsourcing the organisation’s operations network
- IT purchasing bureau of one of the larger retail chains in the Netherlands in formulating the contract for outsourcing management of its office IT systems
Pharma
- Multinational pharmaceutical company in various areas of pharmaceutical law
- European anti-piracy programme
- DES Centrum, on representing the interests of DES victims in a test court case against ten Dutch manufacturers
Privacy
- Intrum Justitia on establishing the central data centre and in dealing with the privacy issues involved
- Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
- Privacy policy
- Protection of personal data
- World leader in passenger transport systems
- Multinational company
Restructuring and Insolvency
Sports
- TW Steel Group with its major sponsor deal with the Renault F1 Team
- InnoSportNL on the structure and establishment of its franchise network InnoSportLabs in the Netherlands
- Johan Cruyff Foundation on legal advice in the broadest sense, including protecting and enforcing IP rights, assistance in the completion of the Cruyff Courts and preparing and assessing all sorts of agreements
- Holland Belgium Bid, in preparing the required Legal Statement for the initiative of Belgium and the Netherlands to be nominated as the joint hosts for either the 2018 or the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Technology
- CFS Bakel in a lengthy international patent dispute with Stork Titan
- Large chemical group in proceedings on the interpretation of technology agreements
- National and international insurance companies in professional indemnity claims lodged by construction companies
- Tensar International, global market leader in the development and production of high-grade geo-synthetics for reinforced soil, foundation and asphalt reinforcement, in a case concerning misleading comparative advertising
- Tax structuring
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