CMS Derks Star Busmann is a leading legal services provider in The Netherlands. We have 220 lawyers, civil-law notaries and tax advisers working at the very highest level for businesses, institutions and government bodies. We advise and assist in transactions, financing arrangements, property developments and commercial projects and within all other specialist branches of law. Our expertise: - Banking & Finance - Commercial Law - Competition & EU - Consumer Products - Corporate - Criminal Law - Dispute Resolution - Employment & Pensions - Energy - Hotels & Leisure - Infrastructure & Project Finance - Insolvency & Restructuring - Insurance - Intellectual Property - International Desks - Lifesciences - Real Estate & Construction - Tax - Technology, Media and Telecoms

1. 30 januari 2015
CMS Derks Star Busmann
Attorneys at Law Civil-law Notaries Tax Advisers
Distinctively European

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CMS Derks Star Busmann
– Multidisciplinary with 200 attorneys at law, civil-law notaries and tax
advisers
– Top 10 legal services provider
– Offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Utrecht
– Integrated services
– Clients: businesses, institutions and government bodies
– National leader with an international network
– Partner of CMS - the organisation of independent
European law and tax firms

3. 3CMS Derks Star Busmann - Distinctively European
Active for more than 100 years
1900 Formation of Nauta en Pit law firm, later Star Busmann & Hooft
Graafland
1945 Formation of Derks law firm, later Derks & Partners
1976 – 89 Several mergers & acquisitions
1990 Merger with Star Busmann & Hooft Graafland, lawyers/tax
advisers Utrecht. Name changed into Derks Star Busmann
1992 – 97 Several mergers & acquisitions
1999 Derks Star Busmann and four other leading European offices
enter into the international CMS-alliance. CMS was added in
front of the name.
2005 The partnership is converted to CMS Derks Star Busmann N.V.

4. 4CMS Derks Star Busmann - Distinctively European
CMS
– CMS is the organisation of independent European law and tax firms
of choice for organisations based in, or looking to move into, Europe
– CMS provides a deep local understanding of legal, tax and business
issues and delivers client-focussed services through a joint strategy
executed locally across 28 jurisdictions with 53 offices in Western
and Central Europe and beyond
EUROPEAN AWARDS 2010
Law firm Network of the year
Shortlisted first place

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Company spearheads
Distinctively European:
– Most extensive presence
– Deep local expertise
– Cross-border coordination
– Industry specialists
– High quality advice
– Strong trusted relationships

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CMS facts & figures
– Founded 1 july 1999
– 9 member firms
– About 5.000 employees
About 770 partners
> 2.800 lawyers
– 53 offices, in 47
city's in 28 countries
– Beyond Europe: Algeria,
Argentina, Brazil, China,
Morocco
– Top 5 global law group

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Practice Areas
– Employment Law & Pensions
– Banking & Finance
– Consumer Products
– Corporate
– Dispute Resolution
– Energy
– Tax
– Hotels & Leisure
– Infrastructure & Project Finance
– Insolvency & Restructuring
– Intellectual Property
– Lifesciences
– Competition & EU
– Commercial Law
– Real Estate & Construction
– Criminal Law
– Technology, Media & Telecoms
– Insurance

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Employment Law & Pensions
Expertise:
- Employment Law
- Pensions
- Employee Incentives
Employment Knowledge Partner
International Law Office

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Banking & Finance
Expertise:
- Banking
• Financial Supervision
• Supervision of Insurance
Industry, Pension Funds, and
Securities Institutions
- Finance
• Financial Services
• Islamic finance
• Leasing
• Securitization
• Security Rights

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Consumer Products
Expertise:
- Product Liability
• Retail agreements (rental,
franchising)
• Provisions (guarantee)
• General conditions
- Automotive
• Contracts (dealer, financing)
• Product liability
• Consumer financing
• Import

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Corporate
Expertise:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Capital Markets
- Private Equity
- Investment Funds
- Joint Ventures & Strategic
Alliances
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Litigation
- Company Law

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Dispute Resolution
Expertise:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Arbitration
- Sanctions
• Administrative fine
• Tax penalties
• (Financial) regulatory
legislation

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Energy
Expertise:
- Energy Market
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Investments
• Financing
- Oil & Gas
- Electricity
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Law
- Water
• Management
• Environment
• Spatial planning

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Tax
Expertise:
- National Tax
- International Tax
- Real Estate Taxation
- Sales Tax
- Sanctions and Procedural
- Other Taxes and Levies

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Hotels & Leisure
Expertise:
- Property Development
- Management Agreements
- Joint Ventures
- Fund Structures
- Sale-and-Leaseback
Arrangements
- Mergers & Acquisitions

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Infrastructure & Project Finance
Expertise:
- Infrastructure Projects
- Industrial Projects
- Property Development
- Project Finance
- Construction and Operation
- Public Private Partnerships

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Insolvency & Restructuring
Expertise:
- Involuntary Liquidations
- Restructuring
- Debt Rescheduling
- Moratorium

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Intellectual Property
Expertise:
- Intellectual Property
- trademarks
- trade names
- designs
- Protection of Know-how
- Breech on rights, admissibility
- Licence and Cooperation
Agreements
- Opportunities for Protection or
Exploitation

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Life sciences
Expertise:
- Pharmaceutical Law
- Healthcare law
- Transactions
- Investments
- Patents
- EU-Regulations

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Competition & EU
Expertise:
- Competition
- Procurement
- Regulated Markets
• Sector-specific regulations
(energy, post,
telecommunications, media
and healthcare)
• Regulatory authorities

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Commercial Law
Expertise:
- General Conditions
- Compliance
- Consumer Law
- Distribution & Franchising
- Transport Law

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Real Estate & Construction
Expertise:
- Administrative Law
• Spatial planning
• Environment & Safety
• Authorities, Subsidies
• Loss, Law of Administrative
Procedure
- Corporate Real Estate
• Real Estate Transactions,
-funds
• Portfolio Structures
- Commercial Property
• Property Development
• Tenancy, Sale, Mortgage,
Transfer
• Law & Lease
- Planning & Construction

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Criminal Law
Expertise:
- General Criminal Law
- Fraud and White Collar Crime
• Financial (regulatory)-
legislations: securities, credit
and investment institutions
• Economic offences
• Environmental legislation
• State taxes
• Customs legislation

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Technology, Media & Telecoms
Expertise:
- Media & Technology
• Contracts (licence, maintenance
and escrow)
• Internet, privacy, domain names,
databases, e-commerce
- Sport
• Sponsoring, TV- and portrait
rights, transfers
• Liability
• Construction & permits
- Telecoms
• Access and interconnection to
network
• Pricing regulation
• Privacy laws and consumer
protection

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Insurance
Expertise:
- Policy Conditions
- Disputes about Cover
- Cases of Loss
- Cases of Fraud

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International Desks
China
Germany
Russia

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- Newsflashes: email newsletters, actualities from a variety of sectors
- Alert service: email bulletin: legal developments collected together from a range of
information sources; 2 times per week
- Seminars: meetings, current developments in many areas, broaden knowledge and
exchange ideas with us and other business colleagues
- Events: informal meetings: opera, sports, diners; strengthen contacts and extend
your network
Free of charge; calender and registration via www.cms-dsb.com
Client services

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Sponsoring
De Nederlandse Opera
CMS Derks Star Busmann is fan and
European partner of De Nederlandse
Opera. We appreciate the quality and the
contemporary and surprising way in which
it presents opera.
We share the ambition to make the
impossible possible.
Other sponsorships:
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Stadsschouwburg (theatre) Utrecht
- Royal Dutch Hockey Association
- 1% fair share partner Handicapped Sport
Fund