Jaap Stoop is head of NautaDutilh’s Corporate M&A Group. His practice entails mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fund formation and debt restructurings.

He acts for Dutch as well as international clients, among which ABN Amro, APAX, APG, Beijing Hainachuan Automotive Parts (BHAP), BDR Thermea, Bilfinger, Carrier, China
International Marine Containers (CIMC), Commerzbank, Core Laboratories, Engine Lease Finance Corporation (ELFC), Goodrich Corporation, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), GTT Communications, ING, Insight Partners, Microsoft, NIBC, Otis, Pratt & Whitney, Rabobank, Sailing Capital, Scania, Schwarz Group, Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), WuXi and the Municipality of Amsterdam. In the debt restructurings field, he worked on inter alia KPNQwest, Song Networks and Jomed. 

Jaap is co-chair of NautaDutilh’s China Desk and active in the firm’s M&A Tech Group and M&A Debt Restructuring Group. He is furthermore past Chair of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), a network of law firms mainly located in countries around the Pacific.

Jaap graduated in 1993 from Leiden University and is partner at NautaDutilh since 2002.