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Biography

Leo Groothuis is a 22 year veteran in NautaDutilh’s Corporate / M&A group. He advises the firm’s clients on public M&A deals and on a wide variety of other domestic and cross-border transactions, such as private share and asset acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, IPOs, inversions and other corporate restructurings, as well as take-over defenses and shareholder activism. Leo is the Dutch corporate lawyer of Mylan, a global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company registered in the Netherlands with a share listing at NASDAQ. Recent transactions in which he was involved include the public offer of Thales for Gemalto, the acquisition of Westfield by Unibail-Rodamco and the acquisition of CB&I by McDermott. Leo studied law in Utrecht, The Netherlands and at University College London, U.K.