Corporate Finance, Securities, Business & Litigation Law Firm

Spigthoff Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisers

Apollolaan 151
Amsterdam 1077 AR
Netherlands

+31 20 3051600

+31 20 3051699

www.spigthoff.com

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Law Firm Overview

Spigthoff Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisers is an independent law firm, established on January 1, 2001. The principal office of the firm is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Spigthoff also has an office at Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. The Amsterdam office of Spigthoff concentrates on corporate, tax and securities law, with a focus on dispute resolution.

The Curacao office of Spigthoff is a full service law firm, offering services in any commercial area of law, including tax law. The Curacao tax department, headed by Mrs. Xandra Kleine-van Dijk, formerly with Baker & McKenzie in Washington DC and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Curacao, is in particular experienced in international financing structures involving the Netherlands Antilles.

Spigthoff currently employs about 45 attorneys and tax advisers. The partners in Spigthoff are experienced attorneys and tax advisers, who joined from large other firms. They are well seasoned in complex legal matters while some cases became landmarks in their field.

Chambers & Partners has compiled their independent and objective list of the World’s Leading Lawyers based on comments gathered from thousands of interviews with clients and lawyers. This guide – which is designed to reflect market opinion – contains a view of the firms and attorneys who are considered leaders in their field. In their 2005-2006 review, Spigthoff and several of its lawyers are listed among the best According to Chambers & Partners: “The Netherlands Antilles office is considered the leading law firm in the Netherlands Antilles“.

Year this Office was Established: 2001

Languages: Dutch, English, German and Spanish

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Funds, Regulatory Compliance

Practice Areas Description

Spigthoff Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisers represent business leaders and corporations. We are at our best in major, complex issues where problems and conflicts need to be solved. This can cover problems with the tax authorities, but also with a company’s stakeholders or with regulatory authorities. Compared to other corporate attorneys at law, we go to litigation more often.

Some of the main international areas of practice are:

- Corporate Litigation

Spigthoff is presently assisting an international bank in a dispute which is considered to be one of the largest ever to be brought before a Dutch court, involving the defence of the client against class actions brought by former securities clients. Present representation also includes the supervisory board of directors in relation to one of the largest insolvencies in Dutch history. Partners of the firm are representing and have represented foreign and foreign owned clients in proceedings in the Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles courts, in particular in securities-related conflicts/ disputes with the authority for the financial markets (AFM), directors' liability claims and banking disputes.

- Tax, National and International

Acclaimed tax lawyer Mr Charles Langereis is advisor to the firm. Mr Langereis and the tax firm's partners have extensive experience in representing various multinational corporations in the Dutch tax courts. The Curaçao Department, headed by Mrs Xandra Kleine-Van Dijk, formerly with Baker & McKenzie in Washington DC, is in particular experienced in international financing structures involving the Dutch Caribbean.

- Mergers & Acquisitions

The Curaçao office serves an international client base investing in or through the Dutch Caribbean. The firm was involved in the divestiture of a major bank's Caribbean retail network and in the privatization of Curaçao international airport, in addition to having been involved in numerous other privatization projects. Services offered to the international client base cover the full spectrum of local laws. The Amsterdam office has extensive (international) experience in M&A, private equity and venture capital.

- White-Collar Crime

Partners of the firm have a vested reputation for conducting successful defenses in a number of highly publicized cases (and have managed to keep other potentially explosive cases away from the media). Defended cases include, in particular, insider trading and tax evasion.

- Arbitration

Members of the firm are experienced in the conduct of foreign language arbitration, both under local and international arbitration rules.

- Banking, Securities and Funds

The Curaçao office is frequently assisting international banks and corporations in the documentation and negotiation of tax driven transactions through the Dutch Caribbean. Those transactions relate to (term loan) credit facility agreements, structured finance (collateralized debt obligations, credit-linked notes, note issuance programmes, securitizations, acquisitions and project finance), security documentation, ship financing, aircraft financing and group finance companies.

- Insolvency

The firm has ample experience in restructuring distressed corporations, both as advisers to the company and as advisers to creditors.

Partners

	Mr. Jacob Cornegoor Attorney Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Shareholder Disputes		Mr. Jerry Hoff Attorney Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Debtor and Creditor, Finance, Securities
	Mr. Frank Peters Attorney Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Litigation, Hedge Funds		Mr. Guido Roth Attorney Administrative Law, Securities