Founded in 1911, Stibbe is a full-service Benelux law firm with offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, London, and New York.
In the Netherlands the firm has a strong financial and corporate offering across the board.
The banking team’s specialities include acquisition finance, corporate finance, project finance, real estate, asset/ commodity finance, and restructuring.
The firm has the distinction of housing the Amsterdam-based equity capital markets team capable of independently handling all aspects of equity capital markets transactions. The firm also boasts a more than capable debt and structured finance offering that frequently acts on the side of issuers, arrangers, trustees and other parties. The team often features on international aspects of transactions led and coordinated from the Netherlands.
Besides its banking and capital markets expertise, the firm also features a highly specialised financial regulatory team that advises both corporate and financial institutions on regulatory matters, often of highly confidential and sensitive nature.
Working across a range of sectors, the M&A team regularly works on large, multi-jurisdictional mandates in the Dutch market. The firm has a strong private equity practice and has advised some of the largest private equity houses in Europe.
In the projects space the firm is known for acting on landmark real estate, PPP, industrial and road infrastructure tunnel projects in the region.
The restructuring team’s expertise covers representing debtors, creditors, and bidders regarding companies in distress.
Key clients include
AccorInvest, Bain Capital, Basic-Fit,
Baupost Group, JPMorgan,
Adevinta, Bain Capital, Barclays, Blackstone, BNP Paribas, British American Tobacco,
Cinven, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, DBRS Ratings, Deutsche Bank, European Investment Bank,
Frigoglass, Groupe PSA, HEMA, B&S Group, The Coca Cola Company,
Belfius, BNG, ING Capital,
Kartesia, KBC, Korea Development Bank,
Dasym Investment Strategies, HPE Growth Capital,
Intertrust, IQ EQ,
3G Capital, EssilorLuxottica, Picnic,
Ballast Nedam,
Ørsted,
Heijmans, BAM, Van Oord and Goldman Sachs.
Research period review:
32nd edition (2022/2023)
In banking work,
the firm was actively involved infinancing and banking deals for clients connected with food and beverage, real estate, consumer goods,financial institutions, temporary power solutions, manufacturing, data centres and energy
sectors.
The
debt capital markets team worked in financing, bond issue, note programme,
high-yield and
investment grade projects for clients in the real estate,
energy, infrastructure and parking, tobacco, banking and
financial institutions sectors.
The
equity capital markets practice team worked in
IPOs, business combination, secondary share offering, de-SPAC deals for clients connected in
banking, asset management, leisure and technology sectors.
The project finance team worked in deals connected to clients in the financial institutions, data centres, food and beverage, technology, investment banking and insurance sectors.
The regulatory
financial services
teamworkincludes deals for clients connected with trust and corporate services, asset management, financial institutions, technology and aviation services.
Highlights on the M&A front
also include financial investments, business combination and joint venture dealsfor clients connected with the automotive, investment management, private equity, insurance, waste management and financial markets.
In the project developmentspace, the firm continued to be involved on landmark PPP engagements such as, for example the
ZuidasDok.
In restructuring and insolvency, the firm often acted for lenders and borrowers on a host of transactions
across several sectors of the Dutch economy.
During the research period partner Marieke Driessen
and senior associate Niek
Groenendijk joined the firm from Simmons & Simmons.
Deal highlights:
32nd edition (2022/2023)
Aggreko
£900 million financing of the acquisition by TDR Capital
DeepOcean Group
£500 million restructuring
Goldman Sachs
£460 million IPO on Euronext of
Hedosophia European Growth
Great Grey Investments acquisition and financing of the
Westpoort Data Center
EssilorLuxottica£7.1 billion acquisition of HAL’s
Max
Bögl and
Züblin£320 million project development reconstruction of the
Ringweg Zuid
Noteholders of DTEK Finance Plc £2 billion financing
