New UBO Register To Be Launched In 2016

对于投资公司而言，外包基金行政管理不仅能显著提高运营效率并节约成本...

Hans Urlus, Maquina Lamé and Rabia Simsek authored this Practice Note that explains the requirements for Dutch entities and trusts to register and maintain information on their Ultimate Beneficial Owners...

Strategic buyers dominated Dutch public M&A in 2025, but ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and transformative forces like AI and the energy transition are reshaping the dealmaking landscape. Will strategic M&A continue to take center stage in 2026, or will private equity sponsors return with selective activity where they can bring genuine added value to target businesses?

Given the scrutiny on executive compensation in recent years, it is critical to make sure that your company's executive pay reflects its performance and aligns with the market.

If the signing and closing of a transaction does not take place on the same day, the seller runs a debtor risk on the buyer. This risk is even greater if the buyer is a newly established acquisition...

When a business unit no longer aligns with corporate strategy or another party can extract greater value from it, a carve-out presents a strategic solution. However, separating an integrated division from its parent organization involves far more complexity than a standard acquisition, requiring careful disentanglement of staff, systems, contracts, and support services. What critical pitfalls must both sellers and buyers navigate to ensure a successful carve-out transaction?

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Start-ups need funding for the development of their service or product and their ‘go to market'. Loans with banks and other commercial lenders are often not feasible at the early stage.

Following our earlier newsflash on the European Commission indicating that it might withdraw the Green Claims Directive, recent developments show that the proposal is still formally in place.

Dutch listed companies commonly deploy protective foundations as a defensive mechanism against hostile takeovers, granting independent boards the power to rapidly dilute bidder voting control through preference share issuance. This governance tool has gained widespread adoption among Dutch corporations and increasingly appears in international structures, offering companies crucial time to evaluate alternatives while maintaining strategic autonomy.

In June 2014, Transparency International published new guidance on countering small bribes, including "facilitation payments".

This month, a combined settlement was reached with one of China's biggest manufacturers of telecom equipment, Zhongxing Telecommunications Ltd. (ZTE).

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are now critical drivers for companies – there is no getting around it.

A critical deadline looms for European issuers with securities traded outside the EU, as a key grandfathering clause under the CSD Regulation expires on 17 January 2027. Without timely regulatory action, third-country central securities depositories like DTC may be forced to suspend services to affected EU issuers, potentially disrupting trading in their equity and debt instruments on international markets.

The SEC's whistleblower programme offers potential rewards to (former) employees who come forward.

In connection with investigations into possible rate fixing by banks, the European Commission has amended its proposals for regulation on insider trading and market manipulation.

The Netherlands is poised to grant its competition authority unprecedented power to scrutinize mergers that fall below traditional notification thresholds, targeting potentially harmful transactions such as roll-up strategies and killer acquisitions. While the Dutch House of Representatives has approved the bill despite criticism from the Council of State, the legislation introduces an asymmetric threshold system and raises standard notification requirements, fundamentally reshaping the country's merger con

The European Commission has published a proposal for a regulation to replace the Market Abuse Directive.

A critical deadline looms for European issuers with securities traded outside the EU, as a key grandfathering clause under the CSD Regulation expires on 17 January 2027. Without timely regulatory action, third-country central securities depositories like DTC may be forced to suspend services to affected EU issuers, potentially disrupting trading in their equity and debt instruments on international markets.

Enforcement actions by criminal and supervisory authorities are settled regularly.