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Stek in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500

In the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 Stek is again recommended for each of its practice areas. Our lawyers are mentioned in the Legal 500 commentary for their standout contribution to respective practices. Additionally, special mentions are for: Banking and finance: Borrower side: Tier 3Sharon…

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Stek in Chambers Europe 2025

In the 2025 edition of the directory Chambers Europe Stek is again recommended for its practice areas as listed below. The following lawyers are listed as “Notable Practitioners”: Banking & Finance: Sharon Kaufmann, Herman Wamelink; Banking & Finance – Project Finance: Herman Wamelink; Corporate/M&A Mid-Market: Eelco Bijkerk, Maarten van…

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Stek in Chambers Global 2025

In the 2025 edition of Chambers Global, Stek is once again recommended for its practice areas: Finance, Corporate/M&A Mid-Market, and Litigation. The following lawyers are listed as ‘Notable Practitioners: Banking & Finance: Sharon Kaufmann and Herman Wamelink Corporate/M&A Mid-Market: Eelco Bijkerk, Maarten van der Graaf, and Ruben Tros Dispute Resolution:…

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Stek organizes documentation session Dutch borrowing base lenders

Stek (Merijn Batteram and Sharon Kaufmann) organized recently a documentation session for legal counsels of several Dutch borrowing base lenders. Key focus was the correlation between the LMA senior facilities agreement with borrowing base facility and the FAAN based borrowing base ancillary document used in the Dutch…

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Welcoming two new counsel to Stek: Tanja Schasfoort and Dawid Sztandera

We are proud to announce the strengthening of our Dispute Resolution and Restructuring & Insolvency practice groups with the appointment of two new counsel: Tanja Schasfoort (Dispute Resolution) and Dawid Sztandera (Restructuring & Insolvency), effective from 1 January 2025. Tanja is an experienced commercial dispute resolution…

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Stek welcomes Floor Bosboom

We are delighted to announce that Floor Bosboom has recently joined our Finance practice group as a paralegal. Before stepping into this role, she already gained valuable experience at Stek as a legal assistant within the same team. Floor supports the team of lawyers with legal matters and assists…

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Stek welcomes Robin van Duijnhoven

We are delighted to announce that Robin van Duijnhoven has recently joined Stek as a senior associate in our Finance practice team and our Restructuring & Insolvency practice team. Robin specialises in (cross-border) financing transactions, with a particular focus on acquisition finance and corporate lending. He…

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Bills of lading and asset based financing under Dutch law

Introduction There has been a significant increase globally in (volume of) asset based financings over the last couple of years and expectations are that this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. Key drivers behind the popularity of asset based financings are, among other things, (i) cost efficiency (it provides…

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Stek launches Restructuring & Insolvency practice led by Kelly Visser-van der Vooren

We are excited to announce the launch of our new practice group Restructuring & Insolvency, headed by our new partner Kelly Visser-van der Vooren. With the Restructuring & Insolvency practice complementing our corporate, finance, litigation and regulatory practices, we are able to assist our clients throughout…

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Transferability of claims under Dutch law: upcoming changes

On June 11, 2024, the Dutch House of Representative (Tweede Kamer) approved the draft bill (wetsvoorstel) on the abolishment of transfer and pledge restrictions (Wet opheffing verpandingsverboden). Subsequently, the bill was adopted by the Dutch Senate on March 19, 2025 and the…

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Stek welcomes Tijmen van den Brink

We are delighted to announce that Tijmen van den Brink joined Stek as an associate in our Finance team. Tijmen advises banks, alternative lenders and borrowers on a broad range of debt finance transactions, including leveraged finance and general corporate lending, often in a cross-border context.