Suzanne van Balen
Senior Manager Legal | Candidate-Notary
About us
Suzanne specializes in corporate (notarial) law and has a strong focus on private equity, management incentive plans, mergers and acquisitions and joint venture structuring. She also advises on domestic and cross-border legal restructurings and general corporate matters from a Dutch law perspective.
Her deep understanding of Dutch corporate governance and share structuring, combined with extensive experience in a wide range of corporate matters, transaction execution and post-closing integration, enables her to deliver high-level support and tailored legal solutions. By collaborating closely with multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional teams, she ensures seamless, integrated support for complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Throughout her career, Suzanne advised on significant transactions across various sectors, including but not limited to:
Private equity acquisitions and divestments across industrial, healthcare and other sectors
Strategic mergers and acquisitions, including both majority and minority stakes
Post-merger integrations
Management incentive plans
Spin offs
Legal restructurings
Investment rounds
Publications
Dutch corporate law update: legislative proposal for digital general meetings
The Netherlands takes a significant step toward modernizing corporate governance with new legislation enabling fully digital general meetings. The Dutch House of Representatives has accepted the legislative proposal for the Digital General Meeting of Private Legal Entities Act, which aims to amend Books 2 and 5 of the Dutch Civil Code to facilitate the use of electronic communication tools at general meetings of Dutch legal entities.