Mathias Wielinga Carvajal

• Lawyer at Stek (2024 – today)
• Lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (2021-2024), with a short secondment to a listed proprietary trading firm (2021-2022)

Mathias’ experience includes advising and representing:

• Ebusco in expedited preliminary relief proceedings regarding the performance of a substantial contract in the context of a rights issue forming part of its turnaround plan;
• France Retail Holdings and Casino Guichard-Perrachon, both part of the structure at the head of a listed French supermarket group, in obtaining an exemption from the obligation to make a public offer for its Dutch listed subsidiary Cnova;
• A Shell entity in various proceedings concerning its joint venture in Ukraine, including inquiry proceedings and squeeze-out proceedings;
• Supervisory directors in the appeal in cassation in the Estro case;
• COFCO in the setting-aside proceedings of an arbitral award, which was successfully upheld;
• Stichting Administratiekantoor GPB Global Resources, as head of a complex corporate structure, in preliminary relief proceedings against an attempted takeover of control of the group by an investor grounded in emergency funding;
• A Dutch joint venture company in inquiry proceedings and a subsequent settlement, as well as in the appeal against the annulment of a binding advice, which included allegations regarding a corporate opportunity;
• Multiple foundations on a pro bono basis in director appointment procedures before the court;
• Flow Traders, a Dutch listed company, in its cross-border seat transfer and conversion to a non-EEA jurisdiction;
• Aegon, a Dutch listed company, in its dual cross-border conversion and seat transfer to a non-EEA jurisdiction;
• A Dutch multinational on director liability risks in connection with ESG risk management;
• A major Dutch bank on specific governance aspects within their complex board structure;
• Portfolio companies in various private equity transactions;
• Multiple companies and banks (as underwriters) in IPOs (all aborted);
• The Ronald McDonald Children’s Fund Foundation (Stichting Ronald McDonald Kinderfonds), on a pro bono basis, in the merger of multiple foundations.

Publications:

• M.A. Wielinga Carvajal, ‘The Board’s Duty of Care’, Ondernemingsrecht 2025/59 – Read here
• Annotatie: Gerechtshof Amsterdam (OK) 12 december 2024, ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2024:3644, JOR 2025/110 m.nt. M.A. Wielinga Carvajal (HaDER) – Read here
• M.A. Wielinga Carvajal en M.C.G. Massart, ‘Corporate Opportunity: an increasingly utilised concept in Dutch corporate law’, Ondernemingsrecht 2025/10 – Read here
• M.A. Wielinga Carvajal, ‘The investigation as a central and mandatory element of the inquiry procedure’, in: J. van Bekkum e.a. (red.), Geschriften vanwege de Vereniging Corporate Litigation 2023-2024 (Serie Van der Heijden Instituut nr. 189), Deventer: Wolters Kluwer 2024
• L.G. Buiten en M.A. Wielinga Carvajal, ‘Hop-skip-jump: how a listed company can exit Europe‘, Tijdschrift voor Ondernemingsrechtpraktijk 2023/1
• M.A. Wielinga Carvajal, ‘The investigation in the inquiry procedure: principles of proper investigation and methods for the investigator in the inquiry procedure’, Weert: Celsus Juridische Uitgeverij 2020