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Peter Voorhees

+31 20 722 2330 [email protected]

Position

Peter is a partner in the Financial Markets group based in the Amsterdam office. Peter is a US-qualified international capital markets lawyer who specialises in advising investment banking, governmental and corporate clients on multi-jurisdictional debt and equity transactions pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the US Securities Act. His specific experience includes advising on medium-term note, commercial paper and structured finance programmes, bond issues, liability management transactions and equity-related issues. Peter is further an expert in ESG finance, acting for the leading issuers of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds across the Dutch market.

Peter’s client base includes several of the most significant issuers and underwriters active in the Dutch and international capital markets. He has been recognised in various legal guides, including Chambers Global, The Legal 500 and the IFLR1000, as a leading capital markets practitioner.

Peter is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Surdna Foundation, a major New York-based philanthropic foundation that seeks to foster sustainable communities in the United States – communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

Career

Peter joined Simmons & Simmons as a partner in April 2015. He was previously with other leading international law firms, where he gained over 14 years of experience working in New York and Amsterdam. Peter is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. Peter has also spent time on secondment overseeing the debt capital markets desk of a major international bank based in the Netherlands.