Gerhardt Vels

Gerhardt is Head of our Corporate practice and specialises in corporate law, in particular mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on private equity transactions. His work includes acquisitions and disposals, private equity transactions (including delisting and all types of buy outs) and public bids for listed companies. He worked in our London office between 2003 and 2005.

Credentials

• Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP (ABP) and Kantoren Fonds Nederland (KFN) on the sale of KFN (portfolio value € 1,6 billion) to funds managed by ING Real Estate
• Tata Steel on its € 8.7 billion public bid on Corus Group plc
• J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC on the Dutch C.V. structure used in connection with a tender offer for shares of Japan's Shinsei Bank
• Cinven and Warburg Pincus on the acquisition of Essent Kabelcom
• Cinven and Warburg Pincus on the acquisition of Casema
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu on its worldwide restructurings
• Deloitte on the Dutch aspects of its merger with Arthur Andersen
• Lehman Brothers International on the public bid for Dutch listed companies Univest N.V. and Haslemere N.V.  
• Barclays Global Investors on the debt financing of Carlyle's public bid for Petroplus
• Kempen & Co on the acquisition of the company by Van Lanschot
• Metsäliitto on the sale of its European paper merchant activities to Antalis
• Q-Park N.V. on several acquisitions, including Farmont (Germany), Universal Parking (UK), Car Park (Scandinavia) and Epolia (France)
• SES Global on its public bid for New Skies Satellites
• Mitsui & Co Ltd on its LNG terminal joint venture with Shell