Bond Advocaten

The firm

Bond Advocaten, based in Amsterdam, was founded in 2018 as the first ‘Finance Only’ boutique firm of The Netherlands.

They exclusively work on banking and finance transactions, including advisory and consultancy work, such as ‘bankability’ advice, transaction structuring and advising on guarantees, security packages and derivatives. Their slogan therefore is ‘Your Banking & Finance Partner’.

As a small boutique firm with at present only three partners, their clients have direct access to highly specialised advice from experienced lawyers. What you see, is what you get. By using innovative IT systems, they are able to keep overhead to a minimum and accordingly they can provide assistance at competitive rates.

Bond has a strong local and international network of best friends firms, ranging from specialist boutique firms (involved in M&A, real estate, projects, notaries or tax) and regional firms, to national and international full service firms, with whom they often team up and refer clients to.

Client base

Bond works with financial institutions, corporates, sponsors, private equity investors, family offices and investment funds. They also provide Dutch law advice to non-Dutch counsel in relation to international transactions involving Dutch entities and/or assets located in The Netherlands.

Industry sector expertise

Bond acts for clients active in a large range of sectors, with a clear market focus on public transport, renewable energy, infrastructure and real estate and leverage finance.

Bond's clients are also active in other sectors including fashion, retail (both operational retail companies, online retailers and real estate owning investors), other real estate asset classes (such as logistics, residential and hotels), biopharmaceutical, entertainment and leisure (including gaming) and optical fiber, innovation and information technology.

Key types of work

Bond has a proven track record in banking and finance transactions. The three partners of Bond all have a background with large international and national law-firms. The three partners together have over 50 years of experience in the international finance market.

The team offers strong capabilities in The Netherlands in a range of banking and finance transactions, with a clear focus on project finance, real estate finance and corporate treasury transactions (receivables purchase programmes and derivatives), but also including acquisition finance, asset finance (including rolling stock) and corporate debt, ranging from bilateral loans to club-deals and syndicated loans, acting both for lenders and for borrowers.

With project finance being one of its key focus areas, Bond has since its start in 2018 always been active in projects focused on sustainability, such as large wind and solar projects. Over the past couple of years, Bond was also involved in multiple public transport concession financing transactions. These concessions have in common that they require significant new investments in zero emission bus fleets and related charging infrastructure. Bond has developed valuable expertise in this particular field of project and asset finance, and is as such contributing to the energy transition of the Dutch public transportation sector.