"Acordos de carve-outs transnacionais são a sustentação do mercado global de M&A, oferecendo oportunidades internacionais para corporações e uma plataforma atrativa para fundos de private equity (PE) gerarem valor.

The turmoil in financial markets also reveals concerns lawyers. Particularly those working in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions suffer from uncertainty.

Our lawyers in The Netherlands, Saskia Blokland and Omar Salah discuss distressed M&A across borders, looking at managing risk and capitalizing on opportunities.

In its recent draft regulatory technical standards, the ESMA provides an overview of situations requiring a supplement to a prospectus.

HCM Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: HCMA), a publicly-traded blank cheque company, and Murano PV, S.A. DE C.V., a Mexico-based development company have announced an agreement...

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has recently advised ISS on two divestments.

An overview of the key aspects of takeovers of listed companies in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

TMF Group – in partnership with Private Equity Wire – explores the current trends and future opportunities in the global private debt market.

The recent trend of using Dutch top holding companies in international mergers underlines the position of the Netherlands as a neutral country with a sophisticated and flexible legal and governance system.

Filtration Group Corporation purchases Clear Edge Filtration Holding from Gamma Holding, a portfolio company of Dutch private equity funds Gilde Buy Out Partners and Parcom Capital Partners.

The implementation of the Prospectus Directive has also led to amendments to the FMSA Exemption Regulation.

On 26 November 2012, CNH Global N.V. and Fiat Industrial S.p.A. announced their contemplated merger into a new Dutch top holding.

Omnicom Group has entered in agreement with Publicis to merge into a new Dutch holding company.

Earlier this year, the European Commission published a consultation document for the review of the Prospectus Directive.

The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets imposed a fine of EUR 12.5 million on four companies in the cold storage industry.

On 10 May 2011, the upper chamber of the Dutch Parliament passed a bill implementing EU Directive 2009/109/EC – which is intended to simplify the reporting and documentation requirements in the case of mergers and divisions (demergers) – by means of amendments to Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code.

The bill on transparency of civil society organizations (Wetsvoorstel transparantie maatschappelijke organisaties) was rejected by the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer) on March 24, 2026.

Dutch competition authority, Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) has cleared the acquisition of Asogem N.V. by Arçelik A.Ş. through its subsidiary Ardutch B.V.

On 19 December 2024, the Dutch government opened the internet consultation for the legislative proposal on expanding the scope of the of the Investment...

The issue of profit distribution by Dutch licensed healthcare institutions and possible alternative routes around the profit block have long been a subject of political discourse.