Jaco Belder
Expertise
Jaco Belder is an associate partner in NautaDutilh's Finance team. He has extensive experience in domestic and international corporate-, acquisition-, project- and asset financing transactions and is also leading member of the team advising on major PPP projects in the Netherlands and acted for, among other transactions, the lenders in respect of several recent PPP projects in the Netherlands.
Jaco graduated from Groningen University in 2000 and joined NautaDutilh in the same year. Jaco has worked from both the New York and London offices of NautaDutilh and has been seconded to a Dutch bank.
Jaco successfully completed the post-graduate Grotius Academy course on Finance & Security and the post-graduate Grotius Academy course on securities laws.
Jaco is Associate Partner at NautaDutilh since 1 January 2014.
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Work highlights
- Assisting ING Real Estate and Woonhave with the EUR 325mio refinancing in relation to a portfolio of 2,000 residential properties owned by Woonhave N.V., the Rotterdam based property management company.
- Assisting NIBC Bank in connection with the construction financing for Greystar for a new high-quality residential complex in Amsterdam with a total area of more than 35,000 sqm, constructed at on an underground parking garage located at the Amstel III transformation area.
- Assisting ING and Rabobank in connection with the EUR 245 mio sustainability-linked term loan financing of the acquisition of a portfolio of 3,000 residential properties by a consortium led by TPG-Angelo Gordon, Dream and Stadium Capital with the European Residential REIT as seller.
- Advising StiGaM in connection with the financing for the ground acquisitions necessary for the area development program Rotterdams Tij, a large area development program in Rotterdam.
- Advising syndicate of lenders regarding the Gate Tank 4 project, the expansion of Gate terminal’s storage and regasification capacity in the Rotterdam harbour. The expansion consists of a new LNG storage tank of 180,000 cubic meters and additional regasification capacity of 4 BCM per year. The new capacity is already rented out under long term commercial agreements and is expected to be ready for operation by the second half of 2026.
- Advising an undisclosed lender with regard to the Pallas Reactor, the new medical isotopes nuclear reactor that will replace the old High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, the Netherlands
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What others say
- 'Jaco Belder is very hands-on, always available and knows exactly what kind of policies we have.' Chamber Europe 2025
- 'Jaco Belder is able to guide clients through complex issues in an effortless way.' Chamber Europe 2025
- 'Shauny Japhary, David van Ee and Jaco Belder have added tremendous value for us this year. In addition to a very high level of knowledge, they are approachable, creative and focused. They know how to get to the bottom of sometimes complex legal questions for us, ask the right questions and come up with solutions that we can actually use, they don't get bogged down in just theoretical solutions but really look at the need we have as clients.’ The legal500 2025