Christiaan de Brauw

Practice Areas

Christiaan specialises in corporate law and M&A transactions with a focus on public M&A, corporate governance and shareholder activism and complex corporate transactions and advice.

Christiaan is trusted advisor of various listed companies, multinationals and successful growth companies. Christiaan also focuses on growth companies and investments through the company’s cycle. Christiaan has gained broad experience in the Life Sciences sector. Christiaan is the "go-to adviser in the field of public takeovers" (Chambers Europe 2022: Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability) and a "go-to for both contested and friendly public M&A deals" (Legal 500, "Hall of Fame" 2022). Christiaan has published the comprehensive text book on Dutch public takeovers. He is a fellow at the Business & Law Research Centre of the Van der Heijden institution for corporate law of the Nijmegen University and a member of the ABA and the American Bar Foundation.