Mr Michiel Pannekoek > Houthoff > Rotterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

The practice at Houthoff ‘brings a global experience to M&A transactions’ and handles the gamut of corporate and private equity work for its noteworthy portfolio of clients. Bram Caudri helms the group and has particular proficiencies representing strategic parties and private equity investors in cross-border transactions. Michiel Pannekoek leads across many of the team’s most pre-eminent cases, harnessing experience in business as well as private equity transactions. Handling large-scale transactions for publicly listed companies is an area of focus of Alexander Kaarls, while Philip van der Eijk can handle carve-out matters of considerable value. Margriet Kros departed in December 2023.

Noted for his ‘wealth of experience’ in the range of private equity matters, Bram Caudri heads up the team at Houthoff which is considered ‘a top team in the Netherlands’. The range of transactions the team advises its roster of private equity clients on includes cross-border acquisitions which cover US, UK and European markets; such work forms a significant portion of the team’s workload. Michiel Pannekoek is well equipped to assist on such significant acquisitions, and Alexander Kaarls also harnesses notable M&A expertise.