The world of finance is subject to tremendous changes. Supervision is on the increase, legislation and regulations are changing, and financing is becoming more and more complex. All this creates a challenging situation for entrepreneurs engaged in the provision of financial services.
A wide practice in the financial sector
AKD has a wide practice in the financial sector and works
with and for banks, credit institutions and insurance companies in
a large variety of areas. We are exceedingly active in the field of
financing (initial financing as well as refinancing), and our
corporate law specialists have extensive experience in cooperating
with big international banks and private equity parties in this
field. We also play an extremely active role in this sector with
respect to employment law: our clients include RBS Royal Bank of
Scotland and Fortis Investments Nederland.
Investment vehicles and Financial Markets Authority
procedures
We give legal advice to investment institutions with
respect to investment vehicles such as 'umbrella funds', private
equity and venture capital funds, property funds, hedge funds and
feeder funds. We also supervise approval procedures at the
Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets.
Insurance
AKD is primarily known to insurance companies for our
expertise in the field of supervisory law. Most of our work in this
area consists of litigation in insurance matters and providing
advice on policy and supervisory law. In addition, AKD has built up
an excellent reputation regarding our advice on the recent
amendments to Dutch insurance law. We act on behalf of large-scale
international players in this segment - such as AIG and Chubb - on
matters relating to directors' and officers' liability.
