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A Chief Financial Officer setting up various businesses in Europe has learned the hard way about compliance.

In the Estro-decision dated 17 May 2023, the Enterprise Chamber determined that there had been mismanagement within the Estro Group at the time of the sale of the Estro Group to private equity investor Providence.

With a sustained period of rate hiking, and the broad consensus that there may be further increases ahead, traditional forms of financing remain less attractive for corporates looking for additional...

Enforcement actions by criminal and supervisory authorities are settled regularly. In light of these developments, companies are advised to take appropriate measures.

The Dutch crowdfunding market has grown substantially, with platforms raising over one billion euros annually for SMEs, yet navigating the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation alongside national Dutch law creates a persistent regulatory grey area. Many platforms assume an ECSP licence settles all compliance requirements, but the reality is far more complex, with multiple overlapping obligations from the Dutch Financial Supervision Act that continue to apply and are frequently overlooked

The greater fiscal constraints facing the world's development banks are opening an opportunity for a role for the private sector in infrastructure project finance.

On 30 June 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM) published a letter addressed to sub-threshold managers pursuant to AIFMD (the Letter).

A bill implementing the Capital Requirements Directive into Dutch law was recently submitted to the Dutch parliament.

The Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) is raising concerns about insufficient compliance with capital and liquidity requirements by investment firms and managers of investment institutions (AIFMs).

On 13 July 2011, the Court of Rotterdam ruled in a dispute between Stichting Belangenbehartiging Gedupeerde Beleggers Van den Berg (Foundation Representation of Interests of Aggrieved Investors of Van den Berg) (the ‘Foundation’) as claimant and ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (legal successor of Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V.) (the ‘Bank’) as defendant

For investment firms, outsourcing fund administration offers significant benefits in the form of operational efficiency, cost savings, and access to specialised technology and expertise.