Christiaan is trusted advisor of various listed companies, multinationals and successful growth companies. Christiaan also focuses on growth companies and investments through the company’s cycle. Christiaan has gained broad experience in the Life Sciences sector. Christiaan is the "go-to adviser in the field of public takeovers" (Chambers Europe 2022: Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability) and a "go-to for both contested and friendly public M&A deals" (Legal 500, "Hall of Fame" 2022). Christiaan has published the comprehensive text book on Dutch public takeovers. He is a fellow at the Business & Law Research Centre of the Van der Heijden institution for corporate law of the Nijmegen University and a member of the ABA and the American Bar Foundation.
Christiaan de Brauw
Partner
Christiaan specialises in corporate law and M&A transactions with a focus on public M&A, corporate governance and shareholder activism and complex corporate transactions and advice.
Expertise
Experience
Representative matters
All types of friendly and contested public takeovers including Teslin on its consortium offer with KKR for Accell, NPM on the acquisition of ICT Group, the board of Altice in relation to the offer by Next, Kiadis on its public takeover by Sanofi, Saxo on the public offer for BinckBank, Gemalto in its successful defence against Atos and offer by Thales, Telegraaf Media Group on the public offers by Mediahuis and Talpa, Qualcomm on its public offer for NXP, Mylan on its successful takeover defence against the approach by Teva, FedEx on its public offer for TNT Express, J&J on its offer for Crucell.
Various equity transactions including Sif Holding N.V. on its EUR 328 million investment decision to construct the world’s largest monopile foundation manufacturing plan, including through a rights issue, and debt and launching customer funding, ProQR on its cross-over series A, IPO and equity raises, etc.
Various growth companies and investors on all kinds of strategic and funding transactions, including for Leyden Labs, Meatable, myTomorrows, Docplanner, Silverflow, Bux.
All types of (international) M&A and corporate transactions including Mammoet on its acquisition of ALE, TomTom on the sale of its Telematics business to Bridgestone Europe, Anbang on the sale of VIVAT, the founders and shareholders of Nederlandse Energie Maatschappij (NLE) on its sale to Nuts Group (Waterland).
Published Work
- C.J.C. de Brauw, 'Strategiebepaling bij beursvennootschappen, activistische aandeelhouders en bescherming in het Nederlandse stakeholdermodel’, Ondernemingsrecht 2022/25
- C.J.C. de Brauw, 'Bescherming tegen aandeelhoudersactivisme in Delaware naar aanleiding van de uitspraak van de Delaware Chancery Court over de anti-activist poison pill van Williams’, Ondernemingsrecht 2022/16
- C.J.C. de Brauw en O. Valk, 'Kroniek openbare biedingen 2015-2021 - Deel 2', TOP 2021/481
- C.J.C. de Brauw en O. Valk, 'Kroniek openbare biedingen 2015-2021', TOP 2021/435
Qualifications
Admissions
Admitted as advocaat, Netherlands, 1996
Listed in the register of legal practice areas of the Dutch Bar Association for Company Law.
Academic