NautaDutilh

NautaDutilh is an international law firm practising Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourg and Dutch-Caribbean law. Founded in 1724, it is one of the largest firms in the Benelux region, with offices in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, London and New York. The firm combines legal expertise with industry insight, working in dedicated sector teams covering financial institutions, real estate, private equity, life sciences, healthcare, and energy and natural resources.

While its practice is rooted in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, NautaDutilh regularly advises on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters, collaborating with leading law firms worldwide. Its key practice strengths include banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, competition, restructuring and insolvency, employment and pensions, insurance and liability, intellectual property, real estate and infrastructure, and taxation.

The firm has the largest acquisition finance, structured finance and bank lending team in the Netherlands and advises nearly all major domestic and international financial institutions active in the jurisdiction. Its capital markets team advises on equity and debt offerings, securitisations, MTN and commercial paper programmes, and Eurobond transactions. In corporate and M&A, NautaDutilh has acted on most public transactions involving competing offers for listed Dutch companies and is active in private equity and joint ventures, supported by its civil law notarial practice.

The dispute resolution team advises on securities, insolvency, restructuring, directors’ liability, insurance, IP, employment, regulatory, fiscal and commercial disputes. It is recognised for its arbitration practice and for pioneering class actions, including its role in the Converium case, which established the Netherlands as the only European jurisdiction to enforce a worldwide class action settlement on an opt-out basis.

Additional areas of expertise include employment and pensions, advising on both transactional and contentious matters; insurance and liability, including professional, medical, environmental and product liability; intellectual property, particularly patent and trade mark litigation; real estate and infrastructure, advising on projects from development and financing through to operation; restructuring and insolvency, with a focus on cross-border matters; and taxation, covering both transactional and advisory work.

Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Luxembourgish

Staffing
400+ lawyers