07.05.2018 NL law Stibbe advises Pershing Square Experience - Stibbe is advising Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. ("PSH") on a tender offer to purchase up to an aggregate amount of $300 million of PSH’s public shares. Read more Team: Pieter Schütte, Heleen Kersten, Rogier Raas, Reinout de Boer, Roderik Vrolijk, Rik van Kessel
23.03.2018 NL law Stibbe advises B&S Group Experience - Stibbe advised B&S Group on its IPO on Euronext Amsterdam. B&S Group is an international wholesaler and distributor of fast-moving consumer goods across a range of niche markets. Read more Team: Pieter Schütte, Nora Offergelt, Emilie Renardel de Lavalette, Pelle van Manen, Samuel Gray, Jean-Marc Delcour, Steven Hijink, Rein van Helden
31.01.2018 NL law Stibbe advises Payvision Experience - Stibbe advised Payvision, a global merchant acquirer and omnichannel payment provider, on its strategic partnership with ING. Read more Team: Björn van der Klip, Duco de Boer, Rogier Raas, Paul Quist, Sophie Zwartkruis-Bakker, Roderik Vrolijk, Judica Krikke, Paul Vestering, Jeroen Smits, Johanne Boelhouwer, Floris ten Have, Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen, Ivo Nelissen
23.06.2016 NL law Stibbe advises Aegon on the launch of the first General Pension Fund in the Netherlands Experience - Stibbe has made a significant contribution to the establishment of the first General Pension Fund in the Netherlands. Aegon is the first company to receive approval from the Dutch Central Bank to launch a General Pension Fund in the Netherlands. This offers a cost-effective alternative for new and existing company pension schemes. Read more
10.06.2016 NL law Stibbe advises on the IPO of Basic-Fit Experience - Stibbe advises Basic-Fit, the largest "value-for-money" fitness club operator in Europe as measured by number of clubs, on its IPO. Read more Team: Duco de Boer, Manon Cremers, Pieter Schütte, Jeroen Smits, Paul Vestering, Steven Hijink, Dennis Mollema, Muriël Rosing, Lieke Stroeve, Johan Vrolijk
04.12.2015 NL law Stibbe advises on the IPO of ABN AMRO Experience - Stibbe advises ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley (as joint global coordinators) and the other underwriters on the IPO of ABN AMRO. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Tom Barkhuysen, Manon Cremers, Heleen Kersten, Judica Krikke, Fons Leijten, Rogier Raas, Pieter Schütte, Jeroen Smits, Paul Vestering, Rein Wesseling, Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen, Dennis Mollema, Roderik Vrolijk, Sophie Zwartkruis-Bakker
08.10.2015 Stibbe advises on the IPO of Intertrust Experience - Advising Intertrust and Blackstone on the IPO of Intertrust. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Gérald Origer, Manon Cremers, Rogier Raas, Pieter Schütte, Jeroen Smits, Paul Vestering, Steven Hijink, Ivo Nelissen, Robert Steeg, Lieke Stroeve, Roderik Vrolijk
29.10.2014 NL law Stibbe advises on the IPO of Pershing Square Holdings Experience - Stibbe advises Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. on the IPO of this investment fund managed by the leading active investor Bill Ackmann. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Rogier Raas, Pieter Schütte, Jeroen Smits, Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen, Roderik Vrolijk
27.05.2014 NL law Stibbe advises on the IPO of Euronext Experience - Advising Euronext and IntercontinentalExchange Group on the IPO of European stock market operator Euronext. Read more Team: Michael Molenaars, Pieter Schütte
11.12.2013 Stibbe advises on the IPO of Constellium Experience - Advising Constellium on its USD 370 million initial IPO on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris and on USD 165 million secondary offerings. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Rein van Helden, Rogier Raas, Hans Witteveen
02.04.2013 NL law Stibbe advises the French state Experience - Advising the French State on the restructuring of the shareholding and corporate governance structure of EADS, the European aerospace and defence corporation which manufactures Airbus. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Fons Leijten, Pieter Schütte
07.07.2010 NL law Stibbe advises Atrium Experience - Advising Atrium European Real Estate Limited on its listing on Euronext Amsterdam and related regulatory issues. Atrium is one of the leading real estate companies focused on shopping centre investment, management and development in Central and Eastern Europe. Read more Team: Derk Lemstra, Rogier Raas, Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen
16.10.2018 NL law Groene psychologie in de financiële sector Articles - Groen is hot. Praten over 'groen' doet goed. De psychologie van de kleur groen is interessant. In een column voor Fondsnieuws gaat Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen nader in op de betrokkenheid van De Nederlandsche Bank bij het groene Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) en enkele groene initiatieven van toezichthouders in de strijd tegen beheersing van klimaatrisico’s. Read more Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen Senior Associate Amsterdam
12.07.2018 NL law Invoering UBO-register uitgesteld naar 2019 Short Reads - Nadat lange tijd de verwachting was dat het UBO-register in de zomer van 2018 operationeel zou kunnen zijn, heeft de Minister van Financiën bij brief van 20 april 2018 laten weten dat de indiening van het definitieve wetsvoorstel wordt uitgesteld tot begin 2019. Aanleiding voor deze vertraging is de inwerkingtreding van de Vijfde Anti-witwasrichtlijn (EU/2018/843). Read more Team: Manon Cremers, Heleen Kersten, Fons Leijten, Allard Metzelaar, Rogier Raas
07.06.2018 NL law Introduction of Green Loan Principles Short Reads - Green finance and sustainable finance are trending topics. After green bonds becoming an increasingly common financing instrument, there is a growing demand by borrowers for green loans. For lenders on the other hand, also in view of various recent initiatives of the European Union in respect of sustainability, participation in (syndicated) green loans is expected to become more important within the investment criteria of a financial institution. Read more Rein van Helden Partner Amsterdam
24.09.2017 NL law ESMA MAR Q&A Short Reads - On 1 September 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) released the seventh version of its questions and answers (the “Q&A”) on the Market Abuse Regulation (No. 596/2014) (“MAR”). Read more Team: Pieter Schütte, Nora Offergelt, Samuel Gray, Emilie Renardel de Lavalette, Pelle van Manen
05.10.2018 NL law De strijd tegen witwassen is pas net begonnen Articles - De Europese Commissie heeft nieuwe regels aangekondigd die het de Europese Banken Autoriteit mogelijk moet maken om nog harder op te treden in geval van overtreding van de anti-witwasregelgeving door onder andere financiële instellingen. Read more Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen Senior Associate Amsterdam
12.07.2018 NL law Wetsvoorstel omzetting aandelen aan toonder ingediend bij de Tweede Kamer Short Reads - Op 9 april 2018 is het wetsvoorstel Wet omzetting aandelen aan toonder bij de Tweede Kamer ingediend. Het wetsvoorstel beoogt de identificatie van houders van aandelen aan toonder uitgegeven door vennootschappen in Europees Nederland en Bonaire, Eustatius en Saba (BES) mogelijk te maken. Read more Team: Rogier Raas, Barbara Bier, Manon Cremers, Heleen Kersten, Fons Leijten, Allard Metzelaar
28.05.2018 BE law New Belgian Companies Code heads for Parliament Articles - Last Friday, the 25th of May, the Council of Ministers approved the text of the draft law for a new Companies Code. Read more Team: Jan Peeters, Stefan Odeurs
11.08.2017 NL law ESMA APM Q&A Short Reads - On 12 July 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) released an updated version of its questions and answers (the “Q&A”) on alternative performance measures (“APMs”). Read more Team: Pieter Schütte, Nora Offergelt, Samuel Gray, Emilie Renardel de Lavalette, Pelle van Manen
05.10.2018 BE law Additional delay for new Companies Code? Articles - The Council of State has taken a second look at the draft law and recently issued, for the second time, a rather bleak opinion about the overall quality of the draft law regarding Belgium’s new Companies Code. Read more Jan Bogaert Partner Brussels
11.07.2018 NL law Update initiatiefwetsvoorstel introductie instemmingsrecht en aanscherping vaste beloning bankiers Short Reads - Op 25 april 2018 heeft de Afdeling advisering van de Raad van State (hierna Raad van State) een kritisch advies uitgebracht over het initiatief-wetsvoorstel om de wet op het financieel toezicht (Wft) te wijzigen. Op 5 juli 2018 is dit advies tezamen met de reactie van de initiatiefnemers van het wetsvoorstel op het advies van de Raad van State gepubliceerd, evenals het aangepaste wetsvoorstel dat is aangeboden aan de Tweede Kamer. Read more Team: Astrid Helstone, Rogier Raas, Suzanne Kröner-Rosmalen, Manuel Lokin, Emma van der Vos
25.04.2018 LU law 25 April 2018: Stibbe sponsors LPEA Insights conference in Luxembourg on 'Building the Real Economy' Conference - LPEA, Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, organises a conference in Luxembourg, which brings on stage General Partners (GPs) and Limited Partners (LPs) to discuss and showcase the private equity sector from the perspective of local practitioners, together with additional contributions from guest speakers specially invited to the event. Stibbe Luxembourg is a proud sponsor of this event, which some of our lawyers will attend. Read more Team: Gérald Origer, Claire-Marie Darnand, Renaud Graas
01.08.2017 NL law Eumedion Evaluates 2017 Dutch Proxy Season Short Reads - On 10 July 2017, Eumedion released its evaluation of the 2017 Dutch proxy season. The evaluation reports on a number of findings, including the following two notable points: Read more Team: Pieter Schütte, Nora Offergelt, Samuel Gray, Emilie Renardel de Lavalette, Pelle van Manen