Clifford Chance

We provide innovative legal solutions with local expertise and global quality standards for the world's leading businesses of today and tomorrow.

Full-service offering from top-ranked teams

We are a full-service top-tier law firm. Our Amsterdam office has been providing our clients with the highest-quality advice and legal insight for over half a century. We combine the firm's global quality standards with our in-depth expertise of the Dutch market. Our clients include major financial institutions, financial investors and multinationals with a traditional focus on finance, capital markets, private equity, cross border M&A and an increased focus on the tech sector.

Our clients come to us for complex work and innovative solutions. We are well known for both our domestic work and our cross-border, cross-practice transactions.

Our lawyers work across top tier practices in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate M&A, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Energy & Infrastructure and Tax, Pensions & Employment.

We are committed to be the law firm of choice in The Netherlands for the world’s leading businesses and the best talent of today and tomorrow.

Client-focused and forward thinking

We always put our clients first. We invest highly in understanding client organisations, their operating context and the opportunities and challenges they face. We use the depth of our expertise to develop commercial, effective solutions. Comments in independent legal directories suggest that clients appreciate the way we work as much as the results we deliver.

We embrace innovation and invest across our network in smart technology, redesigning end-to-end transaction types and low-cost delivery centers setting new standards in the value and outcomes achieved. Every client requirement is unique. So we listen, then provide the best mix of legal talent and technology for each task. That makes our delivery more effective, every time.

Focus on Tech and ESG

We recognise that rapid advances in technology such as AI, robotics, blockchain, big data and cyber security are significantly impacting our clients' business models, their growth strategies and even day-to-day decision making, bringing opportunities to be harnessed and risks to be navigated. Our Tech Group consists of 30 tech lawyers in Amsterdam and over 400 across the globe and helps our clients stay ahead of the curve and outstrip the pace of change by providing strategic tech law advice. Read more about tech.

Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") factors have fast risen to the top of the board agenda with companies increasingly aware that a failure to address these matters can be detrimental to their businesses, both financially and reputationally.

We have been involved in many first-of-a-kind and award-winning matters across the full spectrum of environmental issues, including green and blue financing, renewable energy, carbon off-setting and net zero strategies, and waste and pollution. Read more about ESG.

Community outreach

Responsible Business has a central part in our strategy. As we are deep-rooted in the Netherlands, we use our skills to make a meaningful contribution to our local community. We are motivated to help address social disadvantage and provide access to justice, finance and education. We encourage our people to spend 50 hours per year on corporate responsibility projects such as IMC Weekend School, NL Cares, JINC and pro-bono. We are also passionate supporters of great initiatives such as SAIL, the Stedelijk Museum, De Regenboog Groep and many more.