Robert Smits is Counsel in the Global Financial Markets group and co-leads the Amsterdam Funds & Investment Management Group. He is a senior financial services lawyer with 20 plus years' experience in financial services matters. Robert acts for banks, asset managers, fund managers, institutional investors, fund administrators and fund depositaries and advises on financial services matters across the board. He is the leading expert in the Netherlands on AIFMD and UCITS depositaries, advising all major global custodians and other depositary services providers on their business models and documentation for the Netherlands.