excellence and experience

in mergers and acquisitions

Over 60 years of relevant experience in both public and private M&A in The Netherlands and abroad.

Our Experience

Firm

Burggraaf & Hoekstra provides legal advice across all M&A and strategic assignments, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, unsolicited offer responses, including defence measures, demergers and spin-offs, business disposals and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, equity investments, shareholder reorganisations and corporate governance matters.

Expertise

Our partners each have more than three decades of experience in M&A gained as members of top tier international firms, both in the Netherlands and abroad. We act as counsel to many public and private acquirors, sellers, investors and targets, advising on a wide range of transactions and corporate matters. We regularly advise boards and management teams on corporate governance and corporate responsibility matters.

Services

Our clients know us for our pragmatic and creative approach, even in the most complex matters. Together with our associates and team of freelance lawyers we offer high quality service against competitive rates.

A small and dedicated team delivering top-tier legal advice with personal attention for all our clients.

Our Team

Jan Louis Burggraaf

Jeroen Hoekstra

Jonathan van den Brink

Junior Associate

Partner

Partner

Bastiaan van Doorn

Hans Beerlage

Of Counsel

Partner

A selection of representative public M&A experience:

  • KLM in Air France’s public offer for KLM

  • Swiss Air in Lufthansa’s public offer for Swiss Air

  • ABN AMRO in a consortium’s (Santander, RBS, Fortis) public offer for ABN AMRO

  • Randstad in its public offer for Vedior

  • Saxo Bank in its public offer for Binckbank

A selection of representative private M&A experience:

  • Stepan in the acquisition of Invista’s romatic polyester polyol business

  • ATOS in the acquisition of Motiv ICT Security

  • Intrum in the sale of Buckaroo

  • CareFusion Corp in the acquisition of PPM Engineering

  • Becton Dickson in the acquisition of Kiestra Lab Automation

Contact

Contact
+31 (0)85 0045783
info@burggraafhoekstra.com

Headquarters
Honthorststraat 8A
1071 DD Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Parking
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