FG Lawyers

Number of employees: 4
Languages: Dutch, English

Firm Overview:
FG Lawyers is a small boutique law firm founded in 2013 with a special focus on fintech.

FG Lawyers offers high quality services against competitive fees. The firm’s values are: solution driven, pragmatic, open-minded and personal.

FG Lawyers advises on corporate, financial and regulatory issues affecting clients’ business models, services and transactions. In particular, the firm advises on corporate and financial regulatory and fintech issues, M&A transactions, capital markets transactions, bank financing, debt sales and alternative financing (such as venture capital rounds, crowdfunding, debt funds and invoice financing).

FG Lawyers also assists its clients in the processes with the Dutch financial regulators in relation to scope requests, regulatory sandbox admission requests (to the extent available), registrations, license applications and other ways of enabling its clients to launch its business in the Netherlands in accordance with the financial regulatory laws and regulations.

Main Areas of Practice:
Regulatory Practice:
FG Lawyers offers in-depth knowledge about financial regulatory matters relating to the Dutch market. The firm has advised and assisted numerous financial enterprises as well as fintech companies in qualifying their contemplated business, products or services (including payment solutions, tokenisation and other blockchain based applications) under the existing regulatory framework.
FG Lawyers actively contributes to the creation of a proportionate regulatory framework for alternative financing platforms and fintech companies by responding to national and EU legislative consultations in this field.
Key Clients: Funding Circle, Finturi, Ebury, ZIB Investments, Litebit, Evry Norge, Intrum
Contact: Anne Hakvoort
Tel: 0031(0)207603137
Email: [email protected]

Corporate Practice:
FG Lawyers has in-depth experience with corporate law structuring of investments, joint ventures and comparable forms of cooperation as well as with assisting with mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, share transactions and asset / liability transactions.
Key Clients: DELA Coöperatie UA, Sanoma, Biosana, Glycostem, HAVI Logistics
Contact: Jan Paul Franx
Tel: 0031(0)207603132
Email: [email protected]

Recent Highlights & Awards:
■ Firm ranking in band 4 FinTech Rankings Chambers 2020
■ Ranking Anne Hakvoort in band 2 FinTech Rankings Chambers 2020
■ Ranking Anne Hakvoort in band 3 FinTech Rankings Chambers 2019

Contacts:
General: 0031(0)207603131
Email: [email protected]
FinTech partner: Anne Hakvoort
Tel: 0031(0)207603137
Email: [email protected]