Our firm advises Huaxin Cement Co. Ltd on the acquisition of Lafarge Africa Plc from Holcim Group, a multinational company listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Lafarge Africa is one of Nigeria’s largest cement businesses, with its shares traded on the...
Our firm advised Fast Fitness Japan, Inc. in acquiring a controlling share stake in Eighty 8 Health & Fitness B.V., the entity heading a group that holds the Master Franchisee Rights for Anytime Fitness in Germany. Listed on the prime market of t...
Our firm advised logistics service provider CB on the acquisition by Coöperatie Zorgproducten of a share participation in CB Healthcare, a group company of CB connecting healthcare products, technology and people. Coöperatie Zorgproducten is a Dutch ...
Our firm advised Belgian private equity firm Cobepa on the acquisition of SmartSD, a leading B2B distributor of security solutions with headquarters in the Netherlands and operations in the Benelux and France. The transaction structure included a rol...
Our firm advised SAPA S.p.A. on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Promens Zevenaar (the Netherlands) and Promens Rongu (Estonia) from Berry Global, Inc. The two acquired companies achieve a total turnover of over 100 million euro and em...
Our firm advises logistics service provider CB in an asset sale transaction whereby CB sells and transfers its transport activities, including personnel, to Tielbeke. Through this transaction, CB will also outsource its transport activities on an exc...
Our firm advised Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB), the official Export Credit Agency for the Netherlands and part of the Atradius Group, on the recent financial restructuring of Royal IHC and on the sale by Royal IHC of its subsidiary IQIP to HAL...
Our firm advised IX Zon on the sale of four ready to build solar parks located in the Netherlands to Chint Solar Europe, a leading player active in project development, financing, realization and operation of solar parks. The solar parks will have an...
We are pleased to announce that Luke van de Laar will be joining the firm as per 1 November 2022 as senior associate. Luke started his career at Houthoff in 2013, where he was part of the M&A team for over nine years. He specializes......
Our firm advised General Motors on the Dutch law aspects of a share repurchase transaction with Stellantis NV, the global automaker resulting from the merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA. The transaction entailed the exercise by G...
Our firm advised CropEnergies AG, Europe’s leading producer of renewable ethanol, on its 50% share participation in Syclus, a Dutch biobased chemicals start-up company that plans to build and operate an industrial scale plant for the production...
Our firm advised PortionPack Europe Group on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of CDLC Group (also known as ‘Crème de la Cream’). PortionPack Europe Group is an international group of companies (including Van Oordt The Portion Company, Por...
Our firm advised BENEO, specialised in functional food ingredients, and its parent company Südzucker AG, on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Meatless. The acquisition of Meatless supports Südzucker’s goal of evolving from a large...
Our firm advised SkyTeam on ITA Airways, Italy’s new national carrier, becoming a member of SkyTeam. ITA Airways replaced Alitalia Società Aerea Italiana S.p.A., which ceased operations on 14 October 2021. With ITA Airways on board, SkyTeamR...
Our firm has been ranked again as a leading firm for Corporate/M&A in the 2021 edition of the EMEA Legal 500 guide for Commercial, Corporate and M&A, with very flattering feedback on the firm and its three name partners. In the guide...
Our firm advised one of its longstanding international clients on a carve-out transaction regarding the sale of a majority share stake in its largest Dutch subsidiary to a Germany-based international group of companies. For strategic reasons, the par...
The Royal Dutch Association for Commercial Law (Koninklijke Vereeniging Handelsrecht) published last month its 2020 advices on the widely debated subject of foreign investments in the Netherlands from a geopolitical and legal perspective. Our partner...
Our firm acts as Dutch counsel to CDP Equity SpA, a holding company within the Italian state owned Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group, in relation to its acquisition of a c. 7.3% shareholding in Euronext NV. This transaction takes place in the context o...
Our firm advised the management of OBAM NV, one of Europe’s oldest investment funds with around EUR 1 billion under management, in the transaction resulting in the management over OBAM’s assets becoming independent from BNP Paribas. OBAM is listed at...
Our firm advised logistics service provider CB in a share transaction with PostNL. PostNL is the number one service provider in mail and logistics in the Benelux. The transaction consists of the separation of CB’s healthcare activities into a newly c...
Only two years after its inception, our firm has been ranked in the prestigious EMEA Legal 500 guide for Commercial, Corporate and M&A. In the guide’s 2020 edition, the firm is being described as ‘an excellent boutique’ and ‘outstanding’, providi...
The firm advised CB, a leading logistics service provider in the Benelux, in particular active in the distribution of media and healthcare products, in the acquisition of all shares in Luisterhuis. Luisterhuis is a leading distribution platform for p...
The firm has advised throughout 2019 the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Nasdaq-listed Yandex N.V. (“Yandex”), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and a leading tech business in Russia, on a complex and novel restructuring...
The firm advised a large European investment group as purchaser in a share transaction relating to the carve-out by Oxbow Carbon LLC of its activated carbon business. Oxbow is one of the world’s largest recyclers of refinery and natural gas byp...
The authoritative Dutch legal journal Ondernemingsrecht published a book review by Guus Kemperink in relation to the 709 pages PhD thesis of R.A.F. (Robrecht) Timmermans on the protection of Dutch listed companies through the issuance of preference s...
The firm advised Argus Media, a leading commodity price reporting agency with headquarters in the UK, on the Dutch legal aspects of its group restructuring in anticipation of its acquisition of Oil Market Report (O.M.R.), a German based energy inform...
The firm advised SkyTeam Cargo Alliance in relation to the accession of Saudia Airlines Cargo Company as the 12th member of SkyTeam Cargo Alliance. Carrier Saudi is a member of the overall SkyTeam Airline Alliance. The accession of Saudi Cargo has be...
Dutch lawyers magazine “Mr.“ interviewed Rob Wouters on his “transfer” to private practice and accession to Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd Wouters. Read the full interview (in Dutch)...
Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd Wouters filed a position paper with the Ministry of Justice in the context of the consultation process for the law proposal on the introduction of a reflection period for boards of listed NV-companies. Such reflection peri...
In view of the accession of Rob Wouters to the firm as a partner, the new name of the firm as per 1 January 2019 will be Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd Wouters....
We are extremely pleased to announce that as per 1 January 2019 Rob Wouters will join the firm as a partner. Rob is an experienced corporate / M&A lawyer who worked closely with the firm’s founders for more than a decade. The last two y...
Throughout 2018, Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd advised and assisted the international airline alliance SkyTeam and its 20 members (including Delta Airlines, Air France, China Eastern, Korean Air and KLM) on the overall restructuring of its governance m...
Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd advised Fiducial Informatique, part of the Fiducial Group (the France based world leader in multi-disciplinary services for small business), on the acquisition of key IT-software systems for the hairdressing industry previ...
In the latest edition of the leading legal guide IFRL1000, Guus Kemperink is recognized as a notable practitioner for M&A. Kemperink Maarschalkerweerd thanks its relations and peers for providing their input to IFRL....
The leading Dutch corporate law journal Ondernemingsrecht (volume 2018/12) published an article by Guus Kemperink on the supervision by the supervisory board of Dutch listed companies with an executive board (ExCo). The article discusses the role and...
In 2017, the public takeover market in the Netherlands was largely dominated by the bidding war on TMG, the Dutch Euronext Amsterdam listed media company. Guus Kemperink and Sander Maarschalkerweerd assisted TMG’s supervisory board throughout the pro...