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)

Additional positions:

• Member of the Corporate Litigation Association.
• Member of the Royal Association for Trade Law.

Mathias’ experience includes advising and representing:

• A Dutch scale-up in a dispute with its shareholder and principal financier regarding sanctions risks, in which the requests were granted in both summary proceedings and expulsion proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber, thereby safeguarding the continuity of the company;
• The (suspended) managing director in the inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber concerning Nexperia;
• Former managing directors in the second phase inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber concering Centric, in which requests to establish these directors’responsibility for mismanagement were succesfully denied;
• The direct majority shareholder of a Dutch company (turnover> 1 billion) in their defence against a request for an inquiry before the Enterprise Chamber by an indirect minority shareholder, in which the applicant was declared inadmissible;
• A Dutch investment company in securing its investments by seizin shares and reaching an amicable settlement with a pledge on shares;
• 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 & M.C.G. Massart, Corporate Opportunities: a point of attention for directors and supervisory directors, in: M. Lückerath-Rovers et al. (eds.), Yearbook Corporate Governance 2025-2026, Deventer: Wolters Kluwer 2025
• 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