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A significant portion of Freshfields’s workload includes advising issuers on the life cycle of high-value and cross-jurisdictional IPOs, on aspects ranging from the structuring and restructuring to the remit of ongoing obligations. The Amsterdam office’s managing partner Dirk-Jan Smit has experience advising on domestic and cross-border matters of a broad variety and leads the team alongside the ‘smart, pragmatic and solution-oriented’ Hanneke Rothbarth.
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‘Unique, high-quality advice is provided in a savvy way with expertise in all the corners of the law considered.’
'Great collaboration between the various offices. High-quality andvice and very pragmatic.'
Key clients
- argenx SE
- Lilium GmbH
Work highlights
Advised CVC on its €2.3bn IPO and listing on Euronext Amsterdam, which required a pre-IPO reorganisation of CVC’s corporate and internal structure and associated international financial services, antitrust, FDI and other regulatory approvals in more than 50 jurisdictions.
Advised Permira and Blackstone, together with General Atlantic and TCV when they announced a voluntary offer to shareholders of Adevinta.