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FG Lawyers is an Amsterdam based boutique law firm uniquely focused on financial regulatory law. The firm was formed in 2013.
Focuses / specialisms
The firm assists clients in emerging sectors such as FinTech and Digital Finance in obtaining the appropriate regulatory approvals, licenses or other forms of permission from the Dutch financial regulators.
Established in 2004, DVDW Advocaten is a boutique law firm with offices in The Hague and Rotterdam. The firm provides legal services in M&A, restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance, corporate governance and litigation and dispute resolution.
Highlights
In restructuring and insolvency, the firm has an active practice assisting domestic and international clients on leading complex cross border bankruptcies and restructurings.
In M&A, the firm is active in representing sellers and buyers in mid-market deals across a range of industries in the Netherlands market.
Testimonials 2025
“We work closely together they are very practical. The team including the partner were very approachable. DVDW is an ad on our services, which is very much appreciated by our clients.” - M&A
“DVDW stands out for its pragmatic, responsive, and highly knowledgeable team. They combine sharp legal insight with a down-to-earth approach, which is essential in high-pressure fundraising situations. Their experience in growth capital transactions and ability to manage complex multi-party negotiations made them a trusted partner in getting the deal over the line.” - M&A
Key clients
Atrium Agri / Agrivision Group, UM Beheer, Serra Holding, Prodicom Holding, A-dam Underwear Holding, BNG Bank, Royal Imtech
Founded in 1999, Houthoff is an independent law firm headquartered in Amsterdam. The firm is one of the largest firms in the country with over 300 lawyers.
Focuses / Specialisms
As a full service law firm, the firm poffers advice on practice areas including M&A, banking & finance, real estate and restructuring & insolvency.
Baker McKenzie's Amsterdam office is a leading international law firm with 40 lawyers and notaries.
Focuses / specialism
The firm provides services across a range of corporate law areas including private M&A, private equity, capital markets, banking, restructuring and insolvency and project finance.
Jones Day opened its Amsterdam office in 2013. The office collaborates with lawyers across Jones Day's international network of over 2,500 attorneys.
Focuses / Specialisms
The office provides legal services in corporate and M&A, private equity, banking and finance, capital markets and real estate.
Pels Rijcken is a full service Dutch law firm headquartered in The Hague and employs around 300 people, including 190 attorneys at law.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firms is well know for its expertise in Supreme Court litigation and public law as well as expertise in corporate M&A, projects and project finance.
Loyens & Loeff is a leading full service law firm with its headquarters in Rotterdam and operates several offices across the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Renkum. The firm has around 1,500 lawyers and over 800 advisers specialising in law and taxation.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm offers robust legal advice across key practices areas such as corporate M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, real estate, energy, litigation and dispute resolution.
HVG Law was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Rotterdam with additional offices in Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht, and Rotterdam. The firm has over 150 lawyers and around 227 employees.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm has a particular stength in restructuring and insolvency as well as a broad spectrum of providing legal services including corporate M&A, restructuring and insolvency, real estate and labour law.
BJTK was founded in 2014 by four senior lawyers from well known law firms i the Netherlands, including Stibbe, Freshfields, and Linklaters.
Focuses / Specialisms
Corporate boutique Biesheuvel Jansen is best known for its work within the Dutch M&A space, where it also has a credible transactional private equity offering.
The firm works for a mix of individuals, corporate and private equity clients on M&A transactions, representing both acquirers and sellers. The firm has a focus on mid-market transactions and has recently acted on prominent domestic work within the electronics, retail and technology sectors.
Founded in 1940, Van Benthem & Keulen is a full service law firm headquartered in Utrecht and has over 100 legal professionals with around 19 partners.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm covers a wide array of legal practice areas including corporate M&A, restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance and real estate.
JB Law is a boutique Dutch law firm based in Amsterdam founded in 2006.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm specialises in mid market corporate law, M&A, private equity, venture capital, and dispute resolution. The firm often acts on transactions in the technology sector and also represents client in cross border M&A deals.
Ploum Lodder Princen is a full service law firm based in Rotterdam. The firm employs around 158 staff in total.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firms expertise includes providing legal advice in M&A, projects and corporate law.
Fieldfisher's Netherlands office, based in Amsterdam, was officially launched in 2017. The firm operates as a member of Fieldfisher's international network.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm has a focus on a range of practice areas including corporate and M&A, banking and finance, insolvency and restructuring.
BarentsKrans was founded in 1971 and operates an independent entity. The firm has 90 lawyers with 25 partners and around 65 associate lawyers and notaries.
Focuses / Specialisms
The main focus of the firm legal services range from practice areas including corporate M&A, banking & finance, public law & regulatory and real estate.
DeBreij is a boutique law firm headquartered in Amsterdam, founded in 2018 following developing from De Breij Evers Boon. The firm consists of 27 specialist lawyers.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm focuses exclusively on corporate law traditional practice with expertise in M&A, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures management buy outs, funding rounds, debt to equity transactions and financing.
Linklaters has been active in the Dutch market since 2004, with a fully integrated office located in Amsterdam. The firm has over 70 lawyers including partners and counsels.
Focuses / Specialisms
Magic circle firm Linklaters is mostly recognised in the Dutch market for its work in the banking, M&A and equity capital markets spaces.
Founded in 2005, Stek is an independent Dutch business law firm in Amsterdam. The firm has around 17 partners.
Focuses / Specialisms
The firm is known for providing legal advice within core practice areas including corporate law, dispute resolution, finance, regulatory matters and restructuring and insolvency.
Taylor Wessing is an international law firm with 29 offices around the world. The firm has Dutch offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Focusses/specialisms
The firm has an active M&A team with a special focus on TMT, energy and infrastructure, life sciences and healthcare and private wealth.
It also does banking work such as leveraged finance, asset finance, real estate, trade finance, investment and project finance.
LXA Attorneys is a Dutch law firm specialised in advising entrepreneurs, enterprises and investors. The firm is located in Hertogenbosch.
Focuses / specialisms
The firm is active in M&A and venture capital work and focuses on handling transactions in the innovation space.
The team has strong transactional track record, internationally and domestically, and has a good share of deals in the Dutch mid-market.
Founded in 1903, AKD is an international law firm with offices in Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. In The Netherlands the firm operates Amsterdam, Breda, Eindhoven and Rotterdam offices. As a full service law firm practicing Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg law, the firm has a wide range of expertise and cross border capabilities representing leading financial service institutions and foreign investors.
The firm offers high quality service in many legal services available, with a strong projects practice in the Netherlands, particularly in real estate and large PPP projects. The firm also has a recognizable reputation in M&A, restructuring and insolvency, banking and financial service regulatory matters.
Highlights
In M&A, the firm advised Samskip, a global multi modal logistics company, on its acquisition of Matrans Rotterdam Terminal realising a new green terminal in Rotterdam. The acquisition will focus on sustainable paths to optimize logistics and multimodal transport through innovative digital solutions.
Testimonials 2025
“Super professional, responsive, hands on and availability, alongside completing services upon request” - Banking and finance
Key clients
ILFA, Tryg Garanti, Newion, Unzer Luxembourg, Vitec Software Group, Nafinco, VDL, Hittech, Samskip
The world’s biggest international organisations rely on us to help them make the right decisions in a fast-changing world. We combine the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to solve our clients’ most complex challenges, wherever and whenever they arise.
With over 475 lawyers, tax advisers, civil-law notaries and support staff in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, AKD is a leading Benelux law firm. For our clients, we are the gateway from, to and in the Benelux.
Full-service approach
For over a century now, we have combined a full-service approach and a broad sector focus to consider any question from a range of angles and provide quality solutions - anywhere in the world. Literally. From our own offices, of course, and also through our various country teams and our extensive, worldwide Friends Network.
Practising Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg law, we have the size, the expertise and the experience to assist in national and international M&As, solve complex public-sector issues, conduct minor and major litigation, and advise on substantial projects such as the energy transition and issues concerning privacy and data security.
Value pricing
Our goal is to give our clients the best advice possible in a contemporary, efficient manner. That is why we offer various fee arrangements. Any fee arrangement is negotiable, from fixed hourly rates to fee caps, from contingency fees to success fees. Feel free to discuss this with your AKD contact and we are certain to find the arrangement most suited to your situation
Doing business, winning cases
We help you do both. With committed, ambitious professionals who have no use for legalese but speak your language. We turn complex into coherent and give it to you straight. Rather than leaving your doubts linger, we resolve them. Exactly as you would expect from an adviser.
Van Doorne is a multi-service leading independent Dutch law firm. With 240 lawyers, we have been advising clients for over 95 years in a broad range of legal expertise. The firm’s lawyers are internationally recognised as leading experts, both in their area of practice and industries in which they operate.
HEUSSEN Lawyers & Civil Law Notaries is an independent law firm based in Amsterdam, founded in 2005.
At HEUSSEN, we provide legal services that meet the demands of a dynamic and interconnected world. We combine expert legal knowledge with a practical, solution-driven approach to help businesses navigate an evolving global landscape. We deliver strategic legal counsel tailored to the needs of both corporate and private clients. We have a strong international focus. Our client base ranges from mid-sized to large companies based across the world, with a strong presence from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, particularly Japan and the Greater China region.
Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh is an independent law firm based in Rotterdam. We specialise in the most relevant areas for entrepreneurs, corporates and investors. Our lawyers bring a wealth of experience gained at leading domestic and international practices and are amongst the best lawyers in their respective fields. We work in small hands-on teams that work closely with the client and provide pragmatic and crystal clear advice. Our best of both worlds setup enables us to provide the highest quality and service on all relevant specialisations, with the efficiency and personal attention of a boutique firm.
Bond Advocaten is an independent ‘Finance Only’ boutique law firm. It therefore operates under the slogan ‘Your Banking & Finance Partner’.
Bond’s partners are highly experienced finance lawyers with a background with large international law-firms.
Bond exclusively advises on banking and finance transactions, including advisory and consultancy work, such as ‘bankability’ advice, transaction structuring and advising on derivatives, guarantees and security packages.
Bond’s clients are financial institutions, corporates, sponsors, private equity investors and investment funds.
Bond often teams up with other boutique firms and international law-firms, providing specialist finance advice on international transactions involving Dutch entities organised and/or assets located in The Netherlands.
FIZ provides legal and strategic advice as well as litigation and dispute resolution services on all matters related to restructuring, structured finance and financial regulatory law.
Our teams of experts work together on all aspects of Dutch and European law relating to structured finance and capital market transactions. We combine an in-depth knowledge of the sector with a thorough understanding of applicable law and all possible regulatory aspects to set up, or create, practical and effective structures and solutions.
