Lennard Keijzer

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Venture Capital

Career

Lennard is a partner in De Brauw’s Corporate/M&A practice, and head of the private equity practice. He acts for Dutch and international private equity firms on their acquisitions and exit transactions, as well on other matters throughout the investment period. In addition, Lennard regularly acts for founders and family-owned companies who wish to sell their company or to partner with private equity. He is often consulted for his expertise in governance arrangements between shareholders, private equity funds and co-investors, including minority investments by private equity, and in warranty & indemnity insurance and management participation plans.

Lennard is recognised as a leader in his field, as also confirmed by Legal 500 (‘Hall of Fame’ for Private Equity) and Chambers. Lennard was nominated as one of six lawyers for the Dutch Best M&A Lawyer Award many times as from 2020 and won the award in 2021, 2023 and 2025.

Personal

- Lennard is a guest lecturer on M&A topics at Maastricht Business School, Leiden University, VU Law Academy, Grotius Academy and NVP Academy

Experience

Lennard’s recent work includes advising:

Koninklijke VolkerWessels/Reggeborgh on the sale of VolkerWessels Nederland to HAL.

Bain Capital on the contemplated acquisition of HSO from Carlyle.

Mubadala Capital and Bugaboo on the acquisition of Joolz.

Bain Capital on the sale of Bugaboo to Mubadala Capital (and its reinvestment).

Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the acquisition of SnelStart.

SHV on the sale of ERIKS to Lonestar.

The founders of Schuberg Philis on the sale of a majority stake to Bridgepoint.

VolkerWessels on the sale of their Energy, Telecom and Technical Installation business to Triton.

Ardian on the acquisition of Attero from 3i and DWS.

Platinum Equity on the acquisition of XD Connects from Rivean Capital and Solo Group.

Deutsche Telekom on the EUR 5.1 billion sale of T-Mobile Netherlands to Apax and Warburg Pincus.

Parcom on most of its acquisitions and divestments since 2016, including the acquisition of Robin Radar, RECO, Rent-All, Meeder Group, Just Brands, Hunkemöller, Wajer Yachts, Zorg van de Zaak, Group of Butchers, Simpel.nl, Yource, MGG Group, ConDoor Group, Koninklijke Euroma, NedacSorboMascot, Outdoor Life Group, Viroclinics and other portfolio companies, and the sale of Altrex, Jan Snel, ConDoor Group, GustoMSC, GoodHabitz, Climate for Life, Viroclinics and various other transactions.

BlackFin on the acquisition of the personal lines brokerage and MGA business of Aon Netherlands.

Inflexion on its minority investment in Baker Tilly Netherlands.