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Arne advises on public and private transactions, leveraged buy-outs and complex cross-border transactions and corporate restructurings. 
Arne has been repeatedly recognised as a leader in his field, having been nominated for the Best M&amp;A Lawyer Award since 2007. He won the award “Best M&amp;A Lawyer” in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Legal 500 EMEA has also consistently named him a leading individual from 2009. Moreover, IFLR 1000 has recognised Arne as one of the leading practitioners in mergers and acquisitions every year since 2006. Arne was named “Lawyer of the Year” in the Best Lawyers 2014-2015 edition (Netherlands community) in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law.
 In 2018 he was also inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame. His many accolades include being ranked first tier in M&amp;A and private equity by Chambers. 
Arne is a trusted adviser to many of his clients, and counts among his diverse client base Philips, AkzoNobel, NXP, Rabobank, BAM, Corbion, Arcadis, Bain Capital, Gilde, CVC Capital, and Schiphol Airport. 
Arne's recent work includes advising and representing:
<ul><li>AkzoNobel on the unsuccessful hostile public offer by PPG Industries and advised in its dealings with activist shareholder Elliott Advisors, and successfully defended AkzoNobel in court cases initiated by Elliott Advisors</li><li>Philips on numerous M&amp;A transactions including the EUR 862 million IPO of Philips Lighting; and the sale of Philips’ 80.1% interest in Lumileds to Apollo</li><li>NXP on numerous strategic transactions including the USD 40 billion merger with Freescale, the EUR 2.75 billion sale by NXP of its Standard Products division to JAC Capital and on the USD 47 billion public offer by Qualcomm</li><li>Bpost on the unsuccessful public offer on PostNL</li><li>Shareholders of Q-Park on their EUR 2.95 billion divestment of shares to KKR Infrastructure</li><li>Bain Capital Private Equity on the acquisition of Bugaboo</li></ul>

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Arne Grimme

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Sven’s practice focuses on corporate law, governance, advisory, and litigation.
Sven was General Counsel and member of the Executive Committee of AkzoNobel NV from 2010 to 2018 where he was responsible for Legal, Intellectual Property, Compliance, and Legacy Management. Sven was with Unilever from 2003 to 2009 where he was Group Secretary of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC.
Sven has extensive experience in handling a wide range of corporate, regulatory, litigation and compliance matters, in almost all major jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He brings a client’s perspective and is able to combine legal and business strategic angles with a practical hands-on and results-driven approach.
Sven is board member and General Secretary of the Dutch Association of Listed Companies VEUO, board member of European Issuers, and professor of International Company Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Sven Dumoulin

Klaas makes up the Management Board, together with Dorothee van Vredenburch and Dennis Horeman. 
As a corporate/M&amp;A specialist, Klaas is the trusted adviser to a number of listed companies, large multinationals and private equity firms on a wide range of issues, including public and private M&amp;A, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate law, corporate governance and listing rules in the Netherlands and abroad. He has extensive experience in cross-border M&amp;A, assisting clients in their transactions outside their home country.
Klaas’s recent work includes advising:
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 <li>Just Eat Takeaway.com on the sale of its iFood stake to Prosus, its commercial partnership with Amazon, the acquisition of Grubhub, the merger between Takeaway.com and Just Eat, the acquisition of Delivery Hero’s German food delivery operations, and on the acquisition of the Israeli B2B food delivery platform 10bis</li>
 <li>Backbase on its Series A funding round</li>
 <li>Société Anonyme des Bains de Mer in an announced business combination between FL Entertainment Group and Pegasus Entrepreneurs</li>
 <li>G-III Apparel Group Ltd on its acquisition of Karl Lagerfeld</li>
 <li>COFRA on its acquisition of Dalsem</li>
 <li>Royal Ahold Delhaize, on the acquisition of DEEN Supermarkets, on its acquisition of online retailer Bol.com, on the acquisition of SPAR’s Czech business and the divestment of its Slovakian activities</li>
 <li>Egeria on its acquisition of Fletcher Hotels from NIBC and Xead</li>
 <li>NN Group on its acquisition of Dutch insurance broker Heinenoord</li>
 <li>ICT Group on the recommended public offer by NPM Capital and Teslin</li>
 <li>GrandVision in connection with the transfer of 76.62% of GrandVision’s shares from HAL to EssilorLuxottica</li>
 <li>Ramphastos on the acquisition of HEMA from Lion Capital</li>
 <li>Intergamma on the buy out of its largest franchisee CRH/Van Neerbos</li>
 <li>HAL Investments on the acquisition of Van Wijnen, the acquisition of Deli Building Supplies, the sale of AudioNova to Sonova, and the acquisition of a 25% stake in Dutch Mortgage Funding Company</li>
 <li>Grontmij on a recommended public offer by Sweco</li>
 <li>Klépierre on a recommended public exchange offer for Corio</li>
 <li>Egeria on the divestment of NRC Media to Mediahuis Nederland and the divestment of AXENT NabestaandenZorg to a.s.r.</li>
 <li>RELX on a number of divestments including Elsevier and various other publishing activities</li>
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Klaas de Vries

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has been ranked #5 by Bloomberg's 2022 ranking in Activism Defence. As in 2021, De Brauw has been recognised as a top legal adviser in Europe for company side activist defence advice. The ranking is based on number of engagements. De Brauw had the biggest accumulated stake of all law firms in Europe.

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De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has been ranked #5 by Bloomberg's 2022 ranking in Activism Defence. As in 2021, De Brauw has been recognised as a top legal adviser in Europe for company side activist defence advice. The ranking is based on number of engagements. De Brauw had the biggest accumulated stake of all law firms in Europe.

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