Arne Grimme is head of De Brauw’s Corporate M&amp;A practice. He 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 every year since 2007. He won this annual award from 2013 to 2018 and in 2022. Legal 500 EMEA has also consistently named Arne 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. 
Arne is a trusted adviser to many of De Brauw's clients, and counts among his diverse client base: Philips, AkzoNobel, NXP, Rabobank, BAM, Corbion, Fugro, NN, Aegon, Achmea, Arcadis, Bain Capital and Schiphol Airport. 
Arne's recent work includes advising and representing:<ul><li>Koninklijke Philips N.V. in the EUR 2.5 billion cornerstone investment by EXOR N.V.</li><li>Teleperformance SE on the EUR 3 billion mixed cash/share public offer for Amsterdam Euronext-listed Majorel</li><li>AEGON N.V. on the combination of its Dutch operations with a.s.r. for EUR 2.5 billion and a 29.99% stake in a.s.r.</li><li>Consortium of Pon, Volkswagen and Attestor on the launch of a EUR 2.9 billion recommended takeover offer for Europcar</li><li>Intertrust on the EUR 1.8 billion public offer by Corporation Service Company</li></ul>

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Arne Grimme

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Heather is part of De Brauw’s Corporate practice and is based in Amsterdam. She has a broad background in M&amp;A law from North American and European perspectives. 
Heather has advised on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestments, joint venture arrangements, complex carve-out transactions and private equity investments in a range of industries. Her clients include domestic and international corporate clients in a variety of industries, and private equity funds.
Heather holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. She is qualified to practice in New York, and prior to joining De Brauw, she practiced at a major international law firm in New York.
Heather's recent work includes advising: 
<ul><li dir="ltr">Royal Philips N.V. in the divestment of its Domestic Appliances business</li><li dir="ltr">HEMA and its shareholders in the sale of HEMA to a consortium led by Parcom Capital and Mississippi Ventures</li><li dir="ltr">Akzo Nobel N.V. in the separation of its Specialty Chemicals business and the sale of the business to The Carlyle Group.</li><li dir="ltr">ASML Holding N.V. in its acquisition of the Taiwan listed company Hermes Microvision Inc.</li><li dir="ltr">Madison Industries in various investments in the Netherlands</li></ul>

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Heather Giannandrea

Counsel

Lizette forms part of De Brauw's corporate practice, where she focuses on private M&amp;A, private equity, and founder transactions. Since joining De Brauw in 2014, she has participated in many high-profile matters and has advised several private equity firms and multinational companies in a variety of sectors, including technology, healthcare and energy.

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Lizette van Loon

Senior Associate

Henk specialises in tax and corporate law and, in particular, mergers and acquisitions and private equity structuring. Since joining De Brauw, Henk has advised numerous multinationals and private equity clients on public and private transactions, leveraged buy-outs, complex cross-border transactions, corporate restructurings, (re-)financings and the structuring of management incentive plans.
Legal 500 has recognised Henk as a "leading individual", with Chambers stating that Henk is "up and coming". In 2020, 2021 and 2023, Henk was nominated by MenA.nl (the Dutch M&amp;A awards) as the Netherlands' best M&amp;A tax adviser.
 
Henk’s recent work includes advising
<ul><li>Bain Capital on the acquisition of Bugaboo from the founders and the sale of a majority interest to Mubadala capital</li>
 <li>Ardian on the acquisition of Attero from 3i and DWS</li>
 <li>Takeaway.com on numerous M&amp;A transactions including its acquisition of the German business of Delivery Hero and the combinations with both Just Eat and Grubhub</li>
 <li>AkzoNobel on numerous M&amp;A transactions including the separation and sale of its Specialty Chemicals to The Carlyle Group and GIC for EUR 10.1 billion</li>
 <li>Royal Philips on numerous M&amp;A transactions including the EUR 862 million IPO of Philips Lighting (Signify) and the sale of Philips’ 80.1% interest in Lumileds to Apollo</li>
 <li>T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom on the EUR 5.1 billion sale of T-Mobile Netherlands to Apax and Warburg Pincus, the combination of T-Mobile and Tele2, the divestment of T-Infra and the acquisitions of Vodafone’s fixed line consumer business and Simpel.nl</li>
 <li>Advent and Unit4 on the sale of the Unit4 Dutch software business to Exact Group and various other transactions, including the sale of Unit4 to TA Associates and Partners Group</li>
 <li>Parcom on most of its buyside and sell-side transactions in the past seven years including the acquisition of Hunkemöller, Wajer Yachts , Zorg van de Zaak, Group of Butchers, Simpel.nl, Yource, MGG Group, ConDoor Group, Koninklijke Euroma, NedacSorboMascot, Outdoor Life Group, and other portfolio companies, and the sale of Altrex, Jan Snel, ConDoor Group, GustoMSC, GoodHabitz, Climate for Life and various other transactions</li>
 <li>Topicus.com on its combination with Total Specific Solutions and subsequent listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange</li>
 <li>Impax Asset Management on the acquisition, financing, development and sale of Zonnepark Vlagtwedde, the largest Dutch solar park (110MW)</li>
 <li>The founder of De Jong Packaging on the sale to Stora Enso</li>
 <li>Fugro on its refinancing transactions and multiple buyside and sell-side acquisitions and divestments</li>
 <li>The Kloosterboer family on the sale of Kloosterboer Group to Lineage (Bay Grove)</li>
 <li>Triton on the acquisition of Royal Reesink from Rivean Capital and a majority stake in Bergman Clinics</li></ul>

Henk vanravenhorst

Henk van Ravenhorst

Helen has extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, cartels, dominance, vertical restraints and state aid. Clients value her in-house and private practice expertise, which allows her to understand business drivers and offer clear and practical advice, even in the most complex of matters. She has particular expertise and interest in digital markets, including mergers in this field and the convergence of competition law with consumer and data protection. She also advises on competition law issues in a wide variety of other sectors, including life sciences, energy, industrial/chemical and sustainability.
Helen joined De Brauw in September 2018, moving from her position as Director Competition Law at Akzo Nobel NV, where she was responsible for competition law and merger control matters globally. Prior to this, Helen spent 12 years advising clients on competition law at two international law firms in London, Brussels and Amsterdam. She has worked extensively with economists across a range of matters.

Helen Gornall

Paul advises on EU law, with a specific focus on competition law, foreign direct investment screening (FDI), state aid, and market regulation. 
He has broad experience in transactional matters, gaining clearance in complex cases before the European Commission and ACM as well as other competition and FDI authorities, and handling a variety of sensitive investigations, including abuse of dominance and other contentious competition and FDI matters. In addition, Paul has worked on a wide array of litigation matters, including multi-jurisdictional follow-on damages litigation and complex settlements, and has represented clients before national courts and the European Court of Justice. 
Paul has a particular affinity with the financial sector, building on his experience as part of De Brauw's financial markets regulation group, and was previously seconded to a large Dutch financial group. 
Paul is a member of the Dutch Association for European Law and the Dutch Competition Law Association. He publishes on various topics related to EU law and is a member of the editorial board of competition law journal Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk. He also regularly lectures at the University of Amsterdam’s EU law programme.

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Paul Post

Bertrand is a senior associate in De Brauw's IP/tech practice group, where he focuses on patents and technology. While he has vast experience in high-end global patent law disputes, he also works in various tech-heavy sectors, such as telecoms, energy, consumer goods and construction. Bertrand regularly represents companies in the life sciences sector in high-profile matters that include infringement and invalidation proceedings before the European Patent Office. He is a registered representative for the Unified Patent Court.
Bertrand regularly advises on IP-heavy M&amp;A transactions, complex R&amp;D collaboration, and other licensing and transferring of IP and technology. 
Bertrand has been repeatedly recognised by Legal 500 (Rising Star), IAM Patent 1000 and MIP. He is also an active member of the AIPPI, EPLAW and LES.

Bertrand terwoort

Bertrand ter Woort

<a href="https://madison.net/">Madison Industries</a>, one of the largest privately held companies in the world, has agreed to buy Netherlands-based provider Holmatro N.V. 
Madison Industries focuses on companies that are essential to collective health and wellbeing. As a provider of innovative hydraulic equipment for rescue, industrial and special tactics applications worldwide, Holmatro is well aligned with this objective. 
Read more about this deal <a href="https://madison.net/holmatro-group-joins-madison-industries/">here</a>. 
De Brauw team: <a href="https://www.debrauw.com/people/arne-grimme/">Arne Grimme</a> and <a href="https://www.debrauw.com/people/heather-giannandrea/">Heather Giannandrea.</a>

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Madison Industries , one of the largest privately held companies in the world, has agreed to buy Netherlands-based provider Holmatro N.V.  Madison Industries focuses on companies that are essential to collective health and wellbeing. As a provider of innovative hydraulic equipment for rescue, industrial and special tactics applications worldwide, Holmatro is well aligned with this objective. Read more about this deal here . De Brauw team: Arne Grimme and Heather Giannandrea.

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