Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright‘s commercial, corporate and M&A team is adept at handling M&A, joint ventures, business combinations and corporate restructuring matters. The group draws on the strength of the firm's wider global network to assist clients with domestic and international work. Corporate law expert Saskia Blokland is 'highly responsive, organised, knowledgeable, and very supportive'; she heads up the practice, in which the ’thorough’ senior associate Joeri Noteborn and counsel Florian Fehres are key contacts.
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Testimonials
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‘NRF's Amsterdam team has a number of good all-rounders in its commercial, corporate and M&A practice. They are driven, highly organised and knowledgeable.’
‘Saskia Blokland and Jasper Geerdes are highly responsive, organised, knowledgeable, and very supportive of the needs of the client.’
‘Heimon Smits is a nice and calm person to work with. He looks for solutions. Joeri Noteborn is thorough and delivers as promised.’
‘NRF is capable of having a large team working on all areas of law involved in M&A projects. They also have specific knowledge of our industry and have developed a competency on renewables energies.'
'They are reactive and efficient.’
‘We work with Heimon Smits who is very efficient, precise, and proved to have very good negotiation skills.’
Key clients
- AIG
- Airborne International
- Alcami Wisconsin Corporation
- Ambridge
- Allianz Nederland
- Allianz Capital Partners
- AmTrust
- Anterra Capital
- Atlantic Methanol (AMPCO)
- ASR Real Estate
- Aviva
- Ballast Nedam
- BBGI
- BMW
- CAE
- Canadian Tire Corporation
- CBOE Global Markets, Inc.
- Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)
- Clear Channel
- Commify
- Comparex/SoftwareOne
- Darling Ingredients
- DeltaMilk
- DNV
- Eclipse
- European Investment Bank
- Emerald Kalama Chemical (Lanxess)
- Equitix
- Frasers Centrepoint Limited
- FTI Consulting
- General Motors
- Graco
- Craven b.v.
- HSBC
- Hunter Douglas Europe B.V.
- IbVogt
- Ingram Micro
- INPEX
- Kerry Group
- KWS
- Louis Dreyfus Commodities
- LyondellBasell
- Macquarie
- McLarens Acquisition Inc.
- Monaghan Mushrooms
- Nabors
- Odfjell
- Orascom
- PMV (Participatie Maatschappij Vlaanderen)
- pib Group
- PricewaterhouseCoopers CEE
- Regal Beloit Corporation
- Riskpoint
- Rotterdam World Gateway
- SABIC
- Sandvik
- SoftwareOne
- Stena
- Strukton
- Swiss Life Asset Management
- Tages capital
- Technip
- TietoEVRY
- Twinco
- United Rentals
- Vodacom Group Limited
- VWR International
- Warner Media
- Westermeerwind
Work highlights
- Advised Swiss Life Asset Managers on its acquisition of a 20% stake in Borssele III & IV from Partners Group.
- Advised Enerflex Ltd. (Enerflex) on its business combination with Exterran Corporation (Exterran).
- Advised the sellers on the sale of Eclipse Group B.V. and its respective subsidiaries to Novidam Capital Partners LLC.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Saskia Blokland