Clifford Chance
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Clifford Chance Amsterdam
- With more than 3,400 lawyers and 36 offices in 23 countries across five continents, Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms. Since its establishment in The Netherlands in 1972, Clifford Chance Amsterdam has held a leading position in the top segment of the Dutch legal market. It combines the firm's global quality standards with its in-depth expertise and network in the Dutch market and abroad. Today, clients come to Clifford Chance Amsterdam for complex work and innovative solutions, often in an international context. It is as well known for its domestic work as it is for its complex international transactions and the reach and resources of its international network. The firm stands for highly specialist advice, pragmatic and solution-driven guidance, and short, transparent lines of communication. There is much and close cooperation within each office and with other Clifford Chance offices around the world, in order to deliver carefully coordinated and integrated services.
- Clifford Chance Amsterdam has a strong reputation for helping clients navigate the technical and commercial aspects of large financings, M&A and private equity work, restructurings, capital market and funds transactions, regulatory, risk and compliance issues, and (international) litigation and arbitration. Its full-service offering includes tax, pensions & employment, real estate, intellectual property, notarial and EU competition. With a well-established sector focus and a team of over 130 lawyers, notaries and tax experts, including 20 partners, it serves a high-quality and diverse client base, which includes major financial institutions, financial investors, multinationals and (inter)national organisations, with a traditional focus on finance, capital markets, private equity, cross border M&A and an increased focus on tech and environmental, social & governance.
- Clifford Chance Amsterdam has the mission to be the law firm of choice in The Netherlands for the world’s leading businesses and for the best talent of today and tomorrow. It is geared towards sustainable growth of the firm and its practices, with innovation and change - ways of working, product and service offerings, use of technology, diversity - at the heart of its strategy. It invests in these areas, and works on building the law firm of the future through the development of solutions - the CC Tech Academy, the CC Tech Group - and inclusive collaboration models focused on clients and other parties, both in and outside the legal sector. That the firm stands at the forefront of innovation in its industry, is widely recognised in the market.
Financial Markets Group
- Clifford Chance’s international finance and capital markets practice is seen as leading in the world. With a globally integrated team of lawyers it brings market-leading expertise across all the major financial and commercial centers around the world, acting on many of the financial markets' ground-breaking and high-profile deals, as trusted advisers to the corporations and financial institutions that define the global markets. It is ideally positioned to respond to changing market conditions, to offer seamless solutions across national borders and to deliver local knowledge through its extensive network of offices. It advises on the full spectrum of financial products, including asset finance, corporate & investment grade lending, derivatives & structured finance, fintech, Islamic finance, leveraged & acquisition finance, projects & infrastructure finance, real estate finance, restructuring & insolvency, and trade, commodities & export finance.
- Clifford Chance in Amsterdam covers the above with its Financial Markets Group, amongst others with distinguishing teams in Structured Finance, Acquisition & Leveraged Finance, Lending, Debt Capital Markets, Project Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, FinTech and Financial Regulatory. The group offers both Dutch and English law capabilities and is an integrated multidisciplinary group of over 50 lawyers, currently consisting of 9 partners, 8 counsels, 23 associates and some 15 trainees and paralegals. A qualitatively very strong, energetic and enthusiastic group of professionals, with a distinct team spirit and a ‘can do’ sense, working closely and informally together and stimulating exchange between the disciplines for personal development. A culture that embraces and fosters passion and ambition in the specialism, the seeking of new challenges constantly, legal tech, innovation, diversity and collegiality. The group is very much integrated in Clifford Chance’s international network of finance and capital markets practices and works intensely with the finance and capital markets teams of other international Clifford Chance offices worldwide. Within Clifford Chance Amsterdam the group works closely and integrated with each of the other practice groups.