The Firm

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is an independent business law firm. De Brauw provides high-end legal advice in complex business transactions and commercial litigation. Ever since the firm was founded, in 1871, it has focussed on providing top quality legal services and on developing outstanding lawyers. The firm continuously looks forward to breaking new ground, providing expertise and experience to its clients in their ever-changing markets, year after year; in some cases, for over a century.

Areas of practice

The firm offers a combination of a strong corporate and finance practice and a centre of excellence for litigation, believing it provides the ingredients for a unique service to its clients. It also helps the firm to develop innovative legal minds that bring commercial awareness and technical excellence to everything it does. The firm's practice covers a broad range of Dutch, EU and Netherlands Antilles law. This includes corporate, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, banking, equity and debt capital markets, asset and structured finance, project finance, corporate recovery and insolvency, restructuring, investment management, tax, corporate and commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation, EU/competition, intellectual property, information technology and communication, public law, insurance, estate planning, real estate, employment and employee benefits. The firm has cross-practice groups for, among others, energy, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, financial institutions, private equity, health services and aviation.

Clients

Almost half of the top 100 companies in the Netherlands choose De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek as their lead law firm. Many of De Brauw's clients are large international companies or financial institutions and they regularly ask the firm to manage their cross-border corporate or financial transactions. The firm also advises or litigates in international commercial disputes that involve a Dutch or Netherlands Antilles angle.

International work

The full spectrum of Corporate, M&A, Banking & Finance, Litigation and Arbitration is handled by a team of partners experienced in domestic and international transactions and proceedings. They are supported by partners in specialist practices, such as Competition, IP, ICT, Privacy, Tax and Employment, who are also leaders in their field. Internationally, the firm maintains close working relationships with the leading firms in major business jurisdictions, such as Slaughter & May (UK), Bristows (UK), Hengeler Mueller (Germany) and Debevoise & Plimpton (US).

External links

Official website

Legal 500 Firm Profile

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