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Stek expanded its financial services offering with the July 2024 hiring of Kelly Visser-van der Vooren from A&O Shearman, who leads the firm’s newly established restructuring and insolvency team. This adds to the firm’s existing lender-side practice, which advises Dutch banks on providing acquisition and project finance. The core team consists of energy project finance specialist Sharon Kaufmann, debt financing expert Herman Wamelink, Maarten van der Graaf, who focuses on cross-border financing arrangements and Marleen Veenstra, whose competencies include acquisition and corporate financing.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very hands on and looking for practical solutions.’

  • ‘Practical and solution driven. Aware of relevant risks and how to avoid these. Good communication skills.’

  • ‘Sharon Kaufmann is a good communicator, easy to contact, pragmatic and can translate the requirements of stakeholders into solid documentation.’

  • ‘Highest attention on all levels; partner is highly committed and has hired very smart and thorough staff; all polite, smart, commercial; patient and good. Best lawyer experience in NL.’

  • ‘We find them solution-focused and collaborative. They are enormously experienced and think ahead to manage a smooth transaction process.’

  • ‘We work a lot with Herman Wamelink and Marleen Veenstra - both are experts in their field.’

  • 'The team is friendly and always approachable. Our questions are always answered quickly and courteously. We always feel very well advised.'

  • 'Herman Warmelink is an excellent consultant with a good eye for the essentials and very solution-orientated.'

Key clients

  • ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
  • ASN Bank N.V.
  • BNG Bank N.V.
  • Commerzbank N.V.
  • Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.
  • ING Bank N.V.
  • Invest-NL Capital N.V.
  • Nederlandse Waterschapsbank N.V.

Work highlights

  • Advised ABN AMRO and ING on the financing of two of the SFP Group's biomethane plants.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Maarten van der Graaf, Marleen Veenstra, Sharon Kaufmann, Herman Wamelink

Other key lawyers

Kelly Visser-van der Vooren