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We look back on 2019 with satisfaction, and full of enthusiasm to the new year where we can advise even more passionate entrepreneurs in buying and selling businesses. "Due to the hesitant in Q3-19, we saw deals move on to…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory announces that it has reached a binding agreement to sell its Belgian training assets to NCOI Group, the largest privately owned company in the Dutch education and training market.  In Belgium, Wolters Kluwer intends to…

Each quarter the Dutch M&A-community website MenA.nl publishes a ranking of M&A firms, the league tables. These tables are made up of a list of corporate finance advisers and the number of deals, and their accompanying deal value, they advised…

“Working together with Nearshoring Partners founders has been an incredibly inspiring experience. The company has a fantastic foundation for growth - a professional team and workflows that always focus on long term relations. We will continue to do what they…

The M&A League Tables for the first half of the year were published by MenA.nl. The league tables are a ranking of corporate finance advisers based on the number of transactions and the accompanying deal value. With 21 closed and…

Supporting international growth Marktlink was founded over 20 years ago and has completed over 500 transactions with a deal value between 5 and 250 million euros in the Dutch mid-market. With an average of 60 transactions per year, Marktlink is…

The negative image of the private equity market is mainly fed by messages in the media about large well-known companies such as HEMA, V&D and recently Unilever. According to the media, private equity (PE) would fill companies with debt and…

That’s what the Dutch lack sometimes, that commitment. Time, limited investment possibilities, not wanting to take on the extra risk or just swallowed by the day to day operational flow. Last week I was in Dubai with my two sons.…

What is a pre-exit? During a pre-exit transaction, the sale of a company is completed in two separate stages over a time horizon of typically five to seven years. During the first stage, all shares of the target company are…

A selection of the news of the previous weeks: Brothers Eric and Robert Zandbergen sold their bacon factory, a meat processing company founded by their father in 1948. MerkGoed, the investment firm that also owns Ranja and Benbits, becomes the…

Moulding wants to merge Bema with Packpower, another synthetic material producer that Harkema acquired last year. The two companies together will employ about 100 people and will generate an annual turnover of about 20m, is what the report from the…