Clifford Chance Amsterdam

🎾Game, set, match! Yesterday, our team took the courts for the first edition of our Clifford Chance Tennis Tournament. Thank you to everyone who participated in this friendly competition, and special thanks to our organisers Roos ten Doesschate, Mark-Jan Arends and Ruben van Diepen for making this event a success. 

🌬️ We advised TotalEnergies on its landmark agreements to acquire a stake in OranjeWind, from German renewables developer RWE, in view of supplying #GreenHydrogen to its European refineries and lowering its emissions. This marks TotalEnergies' entry into the Dutch #OffshoreWind market. OranjeWind is a 795 MW offshore wind farm under development in the North Sea in the Netherlands. To tackle the challenges of fluctuating power generation from wind and flexible #energy demand, OranjeWind involves a combination of first-of-a-kind smart innovations and large-scale investments, which will be used in combination to manage power intermittency and grid congestion issues and realise the required match between supply and demand. Our core team comprised Liesbeth Buiter, Jeroen Thijssen, Philip Walsh, Pieter Leefers, Hansuya Reddy, Sabine van den Heuvel, Johanneke Butijn, Wouter Fonteijn, Niels Kuil, Maria Boerman and Liselotte Hommels. 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/er276UwX #MergersAndAcquisitions #EnergyAndInfrastructure #EnergyTransition #Electrolyzers #FloatingSolar #RenewableEnergy #BatteryStorage #eBoilers

We advised Blue Sky Group, a specialist in the field of #pension administration, on the intended sale of its asset management activities to Achmea Investment Management, a leading player in the Dutch fiduciary and asset management market. The intended sale follows on Blue Sky Group's strategic choice to focus entirely on pension management. Our core team was led by Jeroen Thijssen and further consisted of Robin Traas, Mies Rijperman, Rebecca Sarkis and Martijn van Beusekom. Our wider team consisted of Jurgen van der Meer, Robert Smits, Marian Scheele, Erwin Schreuder, Jorrit Posthuma de Boer, Brittany Freling (Global Financial Markets), Hannah van Dijk (Corporate), Michiel Sunderman, Alec Sanderson, Cile Arnoldy (Tax), Floris van de Bult, Astrid van Ommeren, Najib Muslem (Employment), Wijnanda Rutten (Pensions), Mark-Jan Arends, Sabrina Spoor, Zoë van den Broek (Notary), Andrei Georgios Mikes, Laura Bredschneijder (Tech//Digital), Jurre Jurriëns and Fiorri Michael (Antitrust). ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eR7jdgQG #MergersAndAcquisitions #AssetManagement #PensionManagement

We enjoyed hosting an Arts, Drinks & Conversation event together with Young Collectors Circle, during which young professionals from different horizons were taken behind the scenes of the art world. Following a masterclass by Nadine van den Bosch about demystifying the process of buying art, we held a panel discussion with the artists who created the artwork displayed in our atrium throughout our month-long Arcus Pride Art campaign. Thanks to all next generation collectors who joined us for this unique networking event, and to Femke Buijs for organising!

We advised Equistone Partners Europe, one of Europe’s most active mid-market private equity investors, on its conditional agreement to sell the Funds’ investment in Heras, an established European end-to-end supplier of permanent and mobile perimeter protection solutions, to European perimeter and technical security company Garda Sikring. Our team was led by Jeroen Thijssen and further consisted of Hansuya Reddy, Ruben van Diepen, Robert Bulte, Bruno Weisser Lopez (Corporate), Floris van de Bult, Sanne Blankestijn, Iga Mamczarz, Inge de Bruin (Employment), Wijnanda Rutten (Pensions), Michiel Sunderman, Stern Flik, Cile Arnoldy (Tax), Serkan Özel and Laura Stegeman (Notarial) with support from Brussels, Frankfurt and Paris offices. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/ek5dYpgc #MergersAndAcquisitions #PrivateEquity

📢 We advised dsm-firmenich, innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty, on the sale of its MEG-3® fish oil business to KD Pharma Group, a contract development and manufacturing organization (#CDMO) active in pharmaceutical and nutritional lipids. As part of the transaction, dsm-firmenich will obtain a minority stake of 29% in KD Pharma Group’s parent company O³ Holding GmbH. Our core team was led by Gregory Crookes and further consisted of Pieter Leefers, Robin Traas, Maria Boerman, Stijn Theunissen, Michiel Sunderman, Alec Sanderson, Jurre Jurriëns and Marc Besen. Our wider cross-border team consisted of Boudewijn Vermeer, Jelle H., Samuel van Eijnatten (Global Financial Markets), Pascal Borsjé (Tax), Floris van de Bult, Astrid van Ommeren, Merle van den Berg, Iga Mamczarz (Employment), Wijnanda Rutten (Pensions), Andrei Georgios Mikes, Tamlin Higgins, Laura Bredschneijder (Tech//Digital), Serkan Özel (Notary) and Fiorri Michael (Antitrust) in Amsterdam, Simon Schmid, Peter Dieners, Dr. Gunnar Sachs, Yannick Niedergethmann, Marlene Kießling, Dr. Tobias Jenne (Corporate), Arne Gayk (Antitrust) and Stefan Lohn (Litigation) in Düsseldorf, Olaf Mertgen and Christian Klein (Tax) in Frankfurt, Justin Kottin (Corporate) in Paris, Peter J. Mucchetti, Brian Concklin and Timothy Lyons (Antitrust) in Washington and Paul Koppel, David Walsh (ERISA) and Kevin Colan and Milica Pavlović (Tax) in New York. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/evJWyhcs #MergersAndAcquisitions

👋 Wishing a warm welcome to our new colleagues in Amsterdam Maurits Sprong, Thijs van der Loo, Sima Yousefi and Omid Barzegar - great to have you on board! #WhereBrightMindsMeet

We advised ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank on NIBC Bank’s issuance of €200 million Additional Tier 1 Capital Securities, listed on Euronext Amsterdam, and its tender offer to purchase for cash its outstanding Additional Tier 1 capital securities. This transaction builds on our market-leading #DebtCapitalMarkets practice and sector expertise in the structuring of #CapitalSecurities and cross border tender offers. Our team consisted of Jurgen van der Meer, Tineke Kothe, Dewi Walian, Dounia Endlich and Brittany Freling (Global Financial Markets) and Nolan Groenland, Robin Houtveen and Johan Anton Niesten (Tax). ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eG8iUz66

We had the pleasure of hosting the annual Round Table of Pro Bono Connect, a public interest clearinghouse that acts as intermediary between NGOs and law firms. Angela McEwan and Amin Tamaddoni had the opportunity to exchange ideas and brainstorm together with their peers about the role of #ProBono lawyers as part of the broader community working for human rights and positive change. 💛

In our latest briefing, we highlight the importance of #HR in relation to the reporting obligations pursuant the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (#CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (#ESRS) and share our observations that are relevant to the HR practice. The social aspects of CSRD reporting relate for example to workforce policies, diversity and inclusion initiatives, employee engagement and representation; topics that are more and more in the spotlight from a general compliance and a stakeholder perspective. HR will play a key role when it comes to assessing and steering the impact of relevant disclosures to the wider company strategy. ➡️ Read our briefing here: https://lnkd.in/erFWmv9m Feel free to reach out to Sara Schermerhorn and Floris van de Bult to hear more. #EmploymentLaw #ESG