Track record

Advice

  • Setting up and restructuring investment funds, for retail investors, institutional investors, and family offices, including application for an AIFMD license
  • Advising on (secondary) private equity transactions  
  • Assisting companies and investment institutions with respect to prospectuses for bonds, shares, participations, including the approval process with the Dutch AFM
  • Assisting insurance companies on national and cross border mergers
  • Assisting financial institutions and their clients on the risks and implications of AML requirements
  • Assisting pension funds on outsourcing of asset management. Advising and negotiating investment management agreements and transition management agreements
  • Advising electronic money institutions and payment service providers on contracts, money flows, supervision and exceptions of PSD2 (e.g. for commercial agents)
  • Assisting crypto providers with their DNB registration and advising crypto providers on the scope of crypto services and -products within the existing regulatory framework and MiCA
  • Assisting Crowdfunding platforms, e.g. on the EU Crowdfunding Regulation (ECSPR). Drafting documents, assistance with license applications and advice on license requirements
  • Advising on the application of financial services regulations and asstistance with license applications or exemptions
  • Transition from a parity governance model to a reverse mixed governance model by company pension funds and an industry pension fund  
  • Establishing administration agreements between employers and company pension fund and general pension fund  
  • Fiduciary management agreements, pension administration and asset management agreements between pension funds and their service providers  
  • Splits, mergers and acquisitions of companies and the impact on relationships with pension providers  
  • Collective value transfers from pension funds to other pension providers (general pension fund, insurer, Belgian Opf)   
 

Litigation

  • Litigating on various conflicts between parties active on the financial markets
  • Negotioting and arbitrating between financial institutions and their counterparties
  • Executiong class actions on behalf of investors
  • Conducting complaints procedures against auditors
  • Representing a witness at a parliamentary investigation on derivatives trading
  • Litigating and negotiating for parties involved in interest rate swaps and negotiating borrowing conditions with banks.
  • Litigating and conducting settlement negotiations concerning derivative trading by a national housing corporation