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Dentons

Banking & Finance: Regulatory

Europe Guide 2026 : Netherlands

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  • Energy transition expertise: Dentons was the first firm in the Netherlands to embrace Sustainable/ESG investing and works with the Dutch banks in developing new environmentally-friendly financing platforms and with certain trading companies in designing legal solutions for ensuring ESG-compliant supply chains.
  • Project/energy finance: Dentons has the largest project/energy finance practice in the Dutch market, advising both lenders and sponsors.
  • Real estate finance: We have the largest and most active real estate (finance) practice in the Netherlands.
  • Trade and commodity finance: We represent global trading companies and trade finance banks.
  • Asset finance/structured finance/insurance: We work on asset, structured, and lease finance transactions across a broad range of asset classes and structured products, such as aircraft, ships and offshore vessels and asset-backed financings such as receivables discounting, factoring and borrowing base financings.
  • English law: Jacqueline Bell, heads our busy English law practice covering several specialist areas.
  • Financial Services Regulatory: We provide integrated, multi-jurisdictional advice to financial institutions, fintechs and market participants operating in a highly complex and evolving regulatory environment. The team advises on the full spectrum of financial regulation, including banking, payments, asset management, securities, insurance, consumer finance, AML/CFT, market infrastructure and prudential supervision.

Clients (11)

  • Rabobank
  • ING Bank
  • GIGA Storage
  • Berlin Hyp AG
  • Macquarie Capital
  • Triodos Investment Management (and related funds)
  • ABN Amro
  • UniCredit
  • Société Générale
  • PROW Capital / Green Shipping Fund
  • HSBC Bank plc (the innovation bank)

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance: Regulatory - Netherlands

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Dentons' team is well placed to represent banks, asset managers and insurance companies in a range of financial regulatory mandates. The law firm also assists clients with licensing applications and compliance with GDPR and MiFID regulations. The practice is increasingly known for its involvement in project financing matters, often in relation to renewable energy and battery storage projects.

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Strengths

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  • The team offers made-to-measure advice on complex matters in a practical way.

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  • Dentons knows exactly what it is talking about.

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  • Dentons' teams are very helpful, knowledgeable and efficient, as well as very pleasant to work with.

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  • Dentons' team stands out for its mix of global reach with deep local expertise. It is great at handling cross-border deals while truly understanding each market's characteristics.

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  • Dentons has a valuable international network which is required for all our international transactions. It allows the team to find solutions for most issues.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Marcel Janssen
    Marcel Janssen

    Marcel Janssen

    Marcel Janssen is noted for his expertise in the project finance space, acting frequently on behalf of lenders in relation to the financing of transportation and energy-sector projects, including the development of battery energy storage systems.

    • Marcel Janssen is the team lead and is on top of everything. His way of working is convincing and reliable.

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    • It is great to work with Marcel Janssen.

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    • Marcel Janssen is a strong team leader.

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    • Marcel Janssen is good at connecting ideas and testing things out.

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    • Marcel is very commercially engaged and has a problem-solving approach.

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Ranked Individuals at Dentons (1)

Netherlands

Members

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  • Marcel Janssen

    Head of Department

  • Jacqueline Bell

    Head of Department

  • Kristin Annexstad

  • Shivaughn Tets

  • Gerard Koster

  • Marcel Janssen

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