Joost Kloosterman
Expertise
Joost advises corporate and private equity clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestments, leveraged buy outs, carve-out transactions, restructurings and joint ventures as well as corporate governance and general corporate law matters.
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Work highlights
Recent work includes advising:
- ZEH on the envisaged sale of a majority stake in the Borssele nuclear power plant to the Dutch State
- Salland on the envisaged sale to DSW
- Hapag-Lloyd on the acquisition of a 25% stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II
- Axalta on its merger of equals with AkzoNobel
- Sixth Street on the merger of pension and life portfolios of Achmea and Lifetri
- Nobian on various divestments and restructurings
- Aon on the sale of its personal lines business to BlackFin Capital Partners
- Rexel on its acquisition of the Wasco Group
- ArcelorMittal on various acquisition
- Advent International on the acquisition of DSM's engineering materials business
- Lineage Logistics on various acquisitions and divestments
- Nouryon on various divestments and restructurings
- PreZero on the sale of its lightweight packaging business
- ABB on various acquisitions
- Brand New Day on the restructuring of its shareholder base and various divestments
- HAL on the sale of its controlling stake in Grandvision to EssilorLuxottica
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Qualifications
Joost has a law degree from VU University Amsterdam and a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He was a vising researcher at Harvard Law School and a fellow at Duisenberg school of finance. He is admitted to the Amsterdam bar.