Mr Romain Sabatier > NautaDutilh > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Private equity is the centrepiece of NautaDutilh‘s transactional offering, with the flexible and adaptable team providing ‘technical, business-oriented, and efficient’ advice across corporate structuring, financing requirements and restructuring matters. The ‘outstanding’ Romain Sabatier provides ‘pragmatic and reactive’ advice both at the front end of deals, as well as in any pursuant distressed matters, including on matters within the technology space. The ‘client-oriented’ Margaretha Wilkenhuysen heads the team, which has strong relationships with US and UK law firms and is also able to provide a holistic service on Benelux matters by virtue of its network in the region.

NautaDutilh provides a ‘solutions-driven approach’ to private equity sponsors, including Oaktree and Thomas H Lee Partners, on the Luxembourg structuring associated with their cross-border M&A transactions. In this context, as well as advising on corporate issues, the firm offers its strong tax structuring prowess. Key members of the team include Caroline Notté, who ‘provides pragmatic solutions’, and the ‘excellent’ Romain Sabatier, whose transactional expertise also includes restructuring mandates such as work for distressed debt funds. Margaretha Wilkenhuysen heads the team.