NautaDutilh provides a ‘hands-on, accessible and responsive’ service for a bank-focused client base across a range of finance mandates throughout the Benelux region. As well as work on fund and acquisition finance transactions, Josée Weydert regularly advises underwriters on debt capital markets mandates, including recently in a liability management context. Sara Gerling co-heads the team alongside Weydert and as part of her broad practice regularly handles real estate finance mandates with a German nexus.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They have a good presence in the market.’

  • 'Pleasant to deal with and keen to help.'

  • 'The first-class firm is at the top of their game and top of the market in Luxembourg and Netherlands.'

  • 'They display a hands-on, accessible and responsive approach.'

  • 'A highly knowledgeable and responsive team.'

Key clients

  • Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  • HSBC
  • IBM
  • IQ-EQ
  • Jefferies Finance LLC
  • Masonite International Corporation
  • Natixis
  • Onex Corporation
  • Orion Engineered Carbons
  • Postbank
  • Rabobank
  • Rothschild Bank
  • SS&C technologies

Work highlights

  • Advised Gamuda Berhad in connection with an acquisition structure (including the establishment of a Luxembourg joint venture company) of a site at Hampstead along with a co-investor, Astir Living Limited.
  • Assisted Edmond de Rothschild with the listing of a Luxembourg law-governed notes issuance programme on the professional segment of the EuroMTF market of the Luxembourg stock exchange and subsequently with its first loan investment in the UK.
  • Assisted Deutsche Bank and the other purchasing banks on a €700m secured senior notes issue by Merlin Entertainment, via a Luxembourg issuing vehicle, Motion Finco Sarl.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Josée Weydert, Sara Gerling

Other key lawyers

Margaretha Wilkenhuysen, Romain Sabatier, Meliha Dacic, Ann Blato