Capital Markets: Equity
Global Guide 2024 : Netherlands
Band 1
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Chambers Review
Stibbe is particularly known for advising a range of clients on IPOs and secondary offerings, with experience acting for issuers, underwriters, selling shareholders and coordinators. The law firm also advises clients on accelerated bookbuilds and has built up a strong track record of SPAC and de-SPAC transactions, including some of the largest in the European market to date. The team works with the firm's well-regarded corporate department to advise on public M&A transactions.
Work Highlights
- Stibbe advised Firmenich on its merger with Royal DSM and subsequent listing of DSM-Firmenich shares on Euronext Amsterdam.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at Stibbe is well balanced and complementary, and its lawyers are able to quickly digest complex matters and take a pragmatic approach."
"The team has a good ability to handle complex matters including various jurisdictions."
"My personal favourite Dutch law firm is Stibbe."
"The team at Stibbe is well balanced and complementary, and its lawyers are able to quickly digest complex matters and take a pragmatic approach."
"The team has a good ability to handle complex matters including various jurisdictions."
"My personal favourite Dutch law firm is Stibbe."
Notable Practitioners
Former managing partner Derk Lemstra is a standout figure, known in the Netherlands and beyond for his equity capital markets expertise. He has a strong focus on IPOs, with noteworthy expertise in acting for issuers, coordinators and underwriters. He has recently been particularly active on SPAC IPOs and de-SPACs.
"Derk Lemstra delivers the best on-point advice and proactively thinks about options and opportunities. He is always especially helpful when looking at cross-border transactions."
"Derk Lemstra has a great ability to balance project tensions, deliver on tight challenging timelines and bring order to diverse multidisciplinary advisory teams. He offers very good quality advice, and can manage stakeholder and regulator relationships."
"Derk Lemstra is an exceptional technical capital markets lawyer who is extremely commercial. It is a real pleasure to work with him."
Pieter Schütte is one of the key names in the Dutch market for ECM transactions, with a strong reputation for advising clients on IPOs and accelerated bookbuilds. He is also esteemed for his work on SPAC transactions and for assisting with the capital markets aspects of corporate deals. He is mainly active on the side of corporate issuers and also advises Dutch companies on listings in the USA and vice versa.
"In addition to his strong legal skills and knowledge, Pieter takes a commercial and pragmatic approach to solving complex issues which is beneficial to the overall deal outcome and the final result to the client."
"Pieter is a highly professional ECM lawyer who is always ready to help with his expertise. In transactions, he is present and swift with his expert opinion."
"Pieter Schütte provided us with outstanding support on a very complex transaction."