Matthijs van den Broek > Rutgers & Posch > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Rutgers & Posch Offices
HERENGRACHT 466
1017 CA AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Matthijs van den Broek
Position
Partner
Career
Matthijs is an experienced lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital market transactions. He has worked on numerous high-profile transactions, including IPOs, public takeover bids and domestic and international joint ventures. Matthijs advises large and medium-sized enterprises (both publicly traded and private companies), as well as private equity and venture capital investors. Matthijs possesses extensive experience in the Technology, Energy, Life Sciences and Healthcare sector.
Matthijs was a partner at Houthoff before setting up Rutgers & Posch. He worked for Herbert Smith Freehills in London in 2003.
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The Rutgers & Posch team is considered ‘very well-rounded’ by its roster of clients. Lennaert Posch specialises in M&A and joint venture cases of considerable value, Matthijs van den Broek has expertise in corporate governance and capital markets work amongst other areas, while Bas Visée focuses in part on stock exchange-related cases. Chemicals and energy are areas of industry specialism of Anouk Oosterom who is noted by clients for her ‘extreme clarity’. Justus Fortuyn became partner in January 2024, and Bas Mees is also a corporate specialist. The six co-lead the offering.
Netherlands > Private equity
Rutgers & Posch‘s ‘hungry and ambitious’ practice harnesses expertise across the remit of private equity transactional work in both domestic and cross-jurisdictional contexts. Lennaert Posch specialises in M&A, joint venture and restructuring matters of complexity, Matthijs van den Broek‘s private equity transactional workload includes IPOs, public takeovers and joint ventures and Bas Mees has capabilities handling mid-market private equity transactions, including buy-and-build. The three co-lead the practice alongside Justus Fortuyn, Bas Visée and Anouk Oosterom.