M&A and private equity

Transactions relating to the purchase or sale of assets constitute an important part of our M&A team’s daily work. In addition, we frequently assist our clients with respect to joint ventures, group reorganisations, management buy-outs, and legal mergers and divisions.

And we regularly provide assistance to venture capital companies (private equity) and venture capitalists as well.

Focus on making deals
Although we have the utmost respect for lawyers' traditional role at AKD, we primarily regard ourselves as dealmakers. It is our specialists' task to keep you fully and continually informed on really vital matters.

Due diligence
Performing (complex) due diligence audits is a fundamental part of our services. Due diligence audits are carried out on the basis of insight into the business aspects of an intended takeover. These aspects include the 'value drivers' and the focus areas identified by potential purchasers based on their own market experiences.

Multidisciplinary approach
We provide legal assistance within a multidisciplinary framework, in which our lawyers principally play a supplementary role and sometimes a proactive one if necessary. Thanks to our long and intensive cooperation with many different parties, our lawyers and civil-law notaries are uniquely equipped to communicate efficiently with other advisors, and we are completely at home with the language used by financially or operationally-oriented stakeholders.



Case Highlighted

CIMC and CIMC BURG

AKD advised CIMC (China) and CIMC BURG (Netherlands) as Dutch counsel on the sale of its European tank related business to Enric (Hong Kong).
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Clyde Blowers

AKD acted as Dutch legal counsel to Clyde Blowers in conducting due diligence research into the activities of Textron's Gear Technology division in the Netherlands.
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EventIS

AKD advised the shareholders of EventIS in their sale of EventIS (NL) to Seachange International (USA).
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Keizers cs: takeover by Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase, the credit management organisation and secondment agency, acquired 100 per cent of the shares in Oldenzaal-based Keizers cs.
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