Securities World, 3rd Edition

Willem J L Calkoen

Specialising in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) - both public offers and private transactions – and in securities law and corporate governance. Willem has been involved in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Willem graduated from Utrecht University in 1970 and served as a naval reserve officer until 1972, when he joined NautaDutilh. He became a partner in 1980. He was chairman of the Company Law Committee of the Section on Business Law (‘SBL’) of the International Bar Association from 1988 to 1992; an officer of the SBL from 1993 to 1998 and chairman of the SBL from 1997 to 1998.

Willem publishes regularly on topics such as joint ventures and corporate governance. He has been identified as highly recommended in Pritchard's European Legal 500 of 2004 and listed in Who's Who Legal for the Netherlands under M&A and corporate governance. He is acknowledged by European Legal Experts 2005 as a corporate and commercial expert.

• Foreword - Willem J L Calkoen   NautaDutilh NV
• European Union - Petra Zijp, Larissa Silverentand, Willem Verschuur & Elvira de Jong NautaDutilh
• Australia - Robert Hanley   Mallesons Stephen Jaques
• Belgium - Benoît Feron & Marie-Laure De Leener   NautaDutilh NV 
• British Virgin Islands - Jacqueline Daley-Aspinall & Ross Munro   Harney Westwood & Riegels
• Bulgaria - Svetlina Kortenska   Borislav Boyanov & Co
• Canada - Alfred L J Page, David R Surat & Andrew M Bunston   Borden Ladner Gervais
• England & Wales - Robert Boyle & Mark Slade   Macfarlanes
• Finland - Paula Linna, Elisa Heinonen & Essi Rimali   Roschier
• France - Antoine Maffei & Guillaume Touttée   De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
• Germany - Dr. Wolfgang Groß & Dr. Thomas Paul   Hengeler Mueller 
• Ireland - Stephen Hegarty   Arthur Cox
• Italy - Marcello Gioscia & Gianluigi Pugliese   Ughi e Nunziante
• Japan - Kunihiko Morishita   Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
• Luxembourg - François Warken & Laurence van Zuylen   Arendt & Medernach
• Netherlands - Arjan J J Pors, Fleur S M van Tilburg, Lotte van de Loo & Pim Heemskerk   NautaDutilh NV 
• Portugal - Ricardo Andrade Amaro & Diana Ribeiro Duarte   Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
• Russia - Alexey Andrusenko, Tatyana Boyko, Nikita Gurin, Daria Izotova, Julia Kulyamina, Elena Kuznetsova, Valentin Osipov, Alexander Rudyakov, Nadezhda Rybinskaya, Irina Skidan, Alexey Vasilyev & Uliana Volina  Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
• South Korea - Je Won Lee & Mark B Rolfson   Lee & Ko 
• Spain - Javier Ybáñez & José Luis Palao   J&A Garrigues
• Sweden - Ola Åhman, Mattias Friberg & Malin Karvonen   Roschier         
• Switzerland - Martin Lanz, Lorenzo Olgiati & Philippe Borens   Schellenberg Wittmer
•   USA - John B Meade & Jake S Tyshow   Davis Polk & Wardwell