Justin Steer
Partner
Amsterdam
Justin Steer
Partner
Amsterdam
Contact details
Justin has an international client base and a broad corporate practice focusing primarily on multi-jurisdictional M&A, private equity deals and international private M&A transactions. He has also significant experience in complex joint ventures, buy and sell side roles and carve out situations.
Justin’s M&A work spans numerous sectors, such as TMT (including for Prosus and Liberty Global), industrials (including numerous cross-border deals for Indorama in Europe, the US, Africa and Asia), international retail (including the global combination of Walgreens and Alliance Boots ) and agriculture and food (including M&A for Cargill on a global basis).
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as attorney, Republic of South Africa, 1998
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
European registered lawyer, the Netherlands, 2004
Admitted as advocaat, Netherlands, 2019
Listed in the register of legal practice areas of the Dutch Bar Association for Company Law.
Academic
Commerce Degree, University of Cape Town, 1990
Law Degree, University of Cape Town, 1993
Master, International Business Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995
Postgraduate course (Dutch Finance and Securities Law), Grotius Academie 2002
Postgraduate course (Dutch Corporate law), Grotius Academie 2004
Experience highlights
Advising Naspers on the disposal of Allegro Group, the number one eCommerce platform in Eastern Europe with more than 14 million monthly users, to Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa.
Advising a group of financial institutions on the establishment of, and their investment in, Arise, a financial service investor in Sub-Saharan Africa, at inception initially a presence in over 20 countries and USD660m in assets.
Walgreens on its original acquisition of a 45% stake in Alliance Boots, the leading international pharmacy-led health and beauty group, as well as the exercise of the option to acquire the remaining 55%.
TNT on the carve out and sale of its global logistics business to Apollo.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as attorney, Republic of South Africa, 1998
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
European registered lawyer, the Netherlands, 2004
Admitted as advocaat, Netherlands, 2019
Listed in the register of legal practice areas of the Dutch Bar Association for Company Law.
Academic
Commerce Degree, University of Cape Town, 1990
Law Degree, University of Cape Town, 1993
Master, International Business Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995
Postgraduate course (Dutch Finance and Securities Law), Grotius Academie 2002
Postgraduate course (Dutch Corporate law), Grotius Academie 2004
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Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- Indorama on numerous acquisitions globally, including acquisitions of DTF, Glanzstoff, Schoeller, Wellman International's European recycling business and the UK and Dutch PTA/PTE businesses of Eastman.
Recognition
"He knows when to make his points."
Chambers Europe 2021
