Banking & Finance

Raising or providing financing to a company is a complex process, involving several stages and managing various stakeholders. Our Banking & Finance experts have extensive experience in advising and guiding clients during the term of a financing arrangement.

Furthermore, our experts assist clients with drafting, reviewing and negotiating financing and security documentation, in Dutch as well as in English. DVDW offers a unique combination of practice areas in Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency and Mergers & Acquisitions, making it a leading firm for financial transactions.

Our experts advise both lenders and borrowers in areas including:

• acquisition financing arrangements;
• vendor loans;
• real estate financing arrangements;
• asset-based financing arrangements;
• leveraged financing arrangements;
• working capital financing arrangements;
• syndicated financing arrangements and club deals.

DVDW is a member of the Loan Market Association. The LMA is a London-based organisation that works with its members to support and expand the secondary loan market and develop best practices and standard documentation relating to finance.

Recent highlights include:

• Acting for a Dutch family fund on a EUR 85mln real estate facility agreement for a major Dutch healthcare provider (2023).
• Acting for a major Dutch bank on the amendment and restatement of a EUR 25mln facility agreement for a Dutch sustainable energy plant (2021).
• Acting for a major Dutch payroll company on the amendment of its factoring arrangements (2021).
• Acting for a major institutional lender on the recovery of a EUR 50mln term loan provided to a major Dutch shipyard (2020).