Nauta Dutilh
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NautaDutilh is an independent law firm
practicing Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg law. NautaDutilh is one of the largest law firms in Europe, with over 400 lawyers, civil law notaries and tax advisers in offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Luxembourg, New York and Rotterdam. The firm's lengthy and illustrious history dates back to 1724.
NautaDutilh's core practice areas are corporate, banking and financial law, but it is also widely known and respected for its expertise in the areas of tax, intellectual property, competition and antitrust law, telecoms and media, commercial property and insurance. Throughout its history, NautaDutilh has been instrumental in a number of landmark deals. For instance, in 1795, the firm was involved in loan negotiations between Dutch bankers and representatives of the US government to finance for the rebuilding and expansion of Washington DC.
The firm's partners have a long-standing tradition of public service and many hold academic appointments. In 1903, NautaDutilh hired the first female lawyer in the Netherlands, Adolphine Kok. Over the years, the firm has produced entrepreneurs, politicians and even a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
(Tobias Asser, 1838-1913).
Law firm
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practicing Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg law. NautaDutilh is one of the largest law firms in Europe, with over 400 lawyers, civil law notaries and tax advisers in offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Luxembourg, New York and Rotterdam. The firm's lengthy and illustrious history dates back to 1724.
NautaDutilh's core practice areas are corporate, banking and financial law, but it is also widely known and respected for its expertise in the areas of tax, intellectual property, competition and antitrust law, telecoms and media, commercial property and insurance. Throughout its history, NautaDutilh has been instrumental in a number of landmark deals. For instance, in 1795, the firm was involved in loan negotiations between Dutch bankers and representatives of the US government to finance for the rebuilding and expansion of Washington DC.
The firm's partners have a long-standing tradition of public service and many hold academic appointments. In 1903, NautaDutilh hired the first female lawyer in the Netherlands, Adolphine Kok. Over the years, the firm has produced entrepreneurs, politicians and even a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
(Tobias Asser, 1838-1913).
Notable Mandates
- Advised Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
AG along with Simpson Thacher & BartlettSimpson Thacher & BartlettSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a law firm headquartered in New York City which employs over 800 attorneys in ten offices worldwide. The firm is highly regarded for its litigation and corporate practices, with special attention focused on its mergers and acquisitions specialty...
and White & CaseWhite & CaseWhite & Case was founded in New York in 1901 and has grown into one of the world's leading global law firms. The firm has since expanded, and has practice groups in emerging markets including Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe...
on European buyout firm CinvenCinvenCinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion...
's €925 million LBOLBOLBO may refer to:* large bowel obstruction* Leveraged buyout, a method of acquiring a company* Lithium triborate , substance* Left Business Observer, an economics newsletter published by Doug Henwood...
of Klöckner Werke AG in 2001. - Represented AlitaliaAlitaliaAlitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. , in its later stages known as Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. in Extraordinary Administration, was the former Italian flag carrier...
SpA in a successful €253.3 million arbitration case against KLM for wrongful termination by the latter of its alliance with the Italian airline in 2000. An arbitral award was rendered in 2002. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Studio Legale Ughi e Nunziante served as co-counsel to Alitalia. - Counselled a banking syndicate led by Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
AG, Barclays CapitalBarclays CapitalBarclays Capital is a global British investment bank. It is the investment banking division of Barclays plc which has a balance sheet of over £1.2 trillion . Barclays Capital provides financing and risk management services to large companies, institutions and government clients. It is a primary...
, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, HSBCHSBCHSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
Bank plc, Salomon BrothersSalomon BrothersSalomon Brothers was a bulge bracket, Wall Street investment bank. Founded in 1910 by three brothers along with a clerk named Ben Levy, it remained a partnership until the early 1980s, when it was acquired by the commodity trading firm Phibro Corporation and then became Salomon Inc. Eventually...
International Ltd and JP Morgan plc. in a €15 billion loan facility for E.ONE.ONE.ON AG, marketed with an interpunct as E•ON, is the holding company of the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The name comes from the Greek word aeon which means eternity....
Insurance in 2002. - Represented Air FranceAir FranceAir France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...
in its €784 million merger with KLM in 2003. LinklatersLinklatersLinklaters LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading UK law firms. Linklaters is the world's fourth largest global law firm by revenue. In 2009/10 it received total revenues of £1.18 billion and profits per equity partner of £1.2...
LLP served as co-counsel. - Advised Japan Bank for International CooperationJapan Bank for International CooperationThe , also known by its acronym, JBIC, is a Japanese public financial institution and export credit agency, and was created on October 1, 1999, through the merging of the Japan Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund ....
(formerly Japan Export-Import BankJapan Bank for International CooperationThe , also known by its acronym, JBIC, is a Japanese public financial institution and export credit agency, and was created on October 1, 1999, through the merging of the Japan Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund ....
or JEXIM), the Marubeni Corporation and MitsuiMitsuiis one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
on a $3.5 billion co-financing and long-term off-take contract with Petróleos de Venezuela SA in 2007. - Counseled ABN AmroABN AMROABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...
Bank on a €71.1 billion takeover bid by a banking consortium consisting of the Royal Bank of ScotlandRoyal Bank of ScotlandThe Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...
plc (RBS), Banco Santander SA and Fortis Bank BV in 2008. - Represented Dexia Bank Nederland in seeking court approval of an approximately €1 billion collective settlement of a class action suit brought against Dexia in relation to its securities leasing products. This was the first ever judicial ratification of a collective settlement in the financial services sector in the Netherlands.
- Representing EurekoEurekoEureko is a large European insurance company based in the Netherlands. The company was formed in 1992 and has operations in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Slovakia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus. The company grew significantly in 2005 when Rabobank merged its...
B.V. in its multi-billion euro BIT claim against the Polish government with respect to Eureko's investment in PZU, Poland's largest insurance company (ongoing) - Representing YukosYUKOSOJSC "Yukos Oil Company" was a petroleum company in Russia which, until 2003, was controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a number of other prominent Russian businessmen. After Yukos was bankrupted, Khodorkovsky was convicted and sent to prison.Yukos headquarters was located in...
in disputes with the Russian government (ongoing). - Advising ING GroupING GroupThe ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...
on the Dutch government’s assumption of credit risk. - Representing LancômeLancômeLancôme Paris is a makeup brand. Owned by L'Oréal since 1964, Lancôme is part of the Luxury Products division, which offers skin care, fragrances, and makeup at higher-end prices....
(L'Oréal Group) in a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld the appellate court's judgement finding that the scent of a perfume constitutes an original work can qualify for copyright protection. - Advised Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....
on its bid for all ordinary shares of the biopharmaceutical company CrucellCrucellCrucell is a biotechnology company specializing in vaccines and antibodies. The firm, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands...
N.V.. Cravath, Swain & Moore served as US counsel to Johnson & Johnson. - Advised Wind Acquisition Finance SA on the placement of €2.7 billion in high-yield bonds as part of a €6.6 billion deal. This transaction was considered the largest European high-yield bond issuance in 2010.
- Assisted the Belgian Federal Holding and Investment Company (SFPI/FPIM) further to the underwriting by KBC of €3.5 billion in non-voting debt instruments in order to improve consumer confidence in the group and strengthen the core tier-1 ratios applicable to its banking and insurance activities.
- Advised Shire (a UK-Irish biopharmaceutical company listed on the London Stock ExchangeLondon Stock ExchangeThe London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
and NASDAQNASDAQThe NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
) on its all-cash voluntary takeover bid for the outstanding shares of Movetis, a Belgian biotech company listed on Euronext Brussels. - Along with Slaughter and MaySlaughter and MaySlaughter and May is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading UK law firms. It also has offices in Beijing, Brussels and Hong Kong....
, assisted QBE in its acquisition of Secura NV, a Belgian-based reinsurer, further to a highly competitive auction process. QBE, which was particularly interested in Secura's long-term relationship with insurers throughout continental Europe, paid EUR 267 million for the resinsurer. - Assisted the Belgian professional association of listed investment funds (BEAMA) with the drafting of a new royal decree on REITs (sicafis/vastgoedbevaks) and in negotiations with the competent authorities. The royal decree, which was prepared in consultation with the representatives of several local REITs, aims to level the playing field with foreign REITs by resolving several issues that had come to light over the years and which had resulted in regulatory concerns for certain REITs, in particular newer ones.
- Advised APGAPGAPG is an abbreviation with several different meanings:* Aberdeen Proving Ground, a United States Army installation in Aberdeen, Maryland, also**Phillips Army Airfield, the airfield of the above, from its IATA airport code...
on the sale of AlpInvest to the Carlyle GroupCarlyle GroupThe Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...
and the management of AlpInvest in 2011. - Advised W.P. Carey & Co. LLC on its €157 million acquisition and triple-net leaseback of six logistics facilities to Dutch food retailer C1000C1000C1000 is a Dutch supermarket chain. Founded in 1981, as of the end of 2011 the chain had 419 stores and employed 32,000 people. Its market share was 13.2% and growing....
BV in 2011. - Represented the Brussels-Capital Region before the Belgian Constitutional Court in an action to set aside the Flemish decree on CO²Carbon monoxideCarbon monoxide , also called carbonous oxide, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly lighter than air. It is highly toxic to humans and animals in higher quantities, although it is also produced in normal animal metabolism in low quantities, and is thought to have some normal...
emissions trading for aviation activities. This decree transposed Community Directive 2008/101/EC of 19 November 2008 into law in the Flemish RegionFlemish RegionThe Flemish Region is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. Colloquially, it is usually simply referred to as Flanders, of which it is the institutional iteration within the context of the Belgian political system...
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