Wintertaling

CEO, Lawyer and Partner at Wintertaling with an expertise in:

• Corporate M&A
• Partnerships
• Structuring & Financing
• Corporate Goverance
• Family businesses
• Real estate transactions

Marein Smits has been practising corporate law since 1997 and has extensive experience in M&A transactions (acquisitions, participations and refinancings), private equity transactions, cross-border and Dutch joint ventures, large family businesses in the Netherlands and their issues with regard to continuity, succession and shareholder disputes.

Marein, an esteemed Acquisition Lawyer of the Year at the Brookz Fusie en Overname Awards 2024, has a diverse client base spanning industrial and business services, food and non-food retail, construction, healthcare, and the pharmaceutical industry. She was a partner in Corporate M&A at Boekel de Nerée (now Dentons) until 2011 and has been a partner at Wintertaling since 2012.

In addition to her legal practice, Marein is a core professor of Law in the Business Valuation program at Nyenrode Business University, further demonstrating her expertise and commitment to the field.

Dutch, English and French

Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam (1996) Philosophy at Leiden University (1992).