Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance advises ABN AMRO on its restructuring of business divisions

Clifford Chance advised ABN AMRO on its successful restructuring of business divisions ABN AMRO Lease and ABN AMRO Commercial Finance into one division with the name ABN AMRO Asset Based Finance. The restructuring consisted of four mergers, of which two mergers were cross-border mergers, and CC advised on Corporate, Regulatory and Employment matters. The restructuring was successfully completed on 1 January 2018.

The Clifford Chance core team was led by Mark-Jan Arends and furthermore consisted of Tjerk de Jonge and Kyra Geerts (Corporate – Notary), Jurgen van der Meer and Bauke de Vries (Regulatory), Floris van de Bult and Willemijn de Wit (Employment) and Folko de Vries (Finance – all Amsterdam), assisted by Thomas Krececk, Annette Röhder, Schirin Drewell, Corinna Rogmann, Stefan Simon, Ulrike Breidenstein, Marc Benzler and Christian Hissnauer (Corporate, Regulatory and Employment – all Frankfurt), Alex Erasmus, Cheng Li Yow, Eiram Sharpe, Amy Bennett, Jack Harris, Chinwe Odimba-Chapman, Caroline Meinertz and Lakshmi Ravindran (Corporate, Regulatory and Employment – all London) and Frédérick Lacroix, Sébastien Praicheux, Hélène Kouyaté, Pierre d'Ormesson, Olivier Jouffroy and Marine Jamain (Regulatory and Corporate – all Paris).