Jan Willem Reesink is a Clairfort partner and a lawyer specialising in Company law and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Jan Willem is a transaction lawyer par excellence. As a corporate law specialist, he advises companies and investors on various matters and issues relating to mergers & acquisitions (M&A; both share transactions and asset-liability transactions), corporate governance, private equity, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, management/employee participations and corporate real estate. His clients are both Dutch and foreign companies in various sectors.
Jan Willem’s main motivation is entrepreneurship. He gets energy from thinking strategically and commercially with his clients. He thinks in terms of possibilities, opportunities and solutions and advises to the point. Clients benefit from his pragmatic approach and decisiveness, where his client’s interests always come first.
Clients describe Jan Willem as an energetic and driven person who thinks creatively. Customers appreciate his open attitude and enthusiasm. He is able to get things moving (that are stuck) and come up with (new) solutions. Jan Willem is also chairman of the Supervisory Board of a healthcare institution in Utrecht.
Before his move to Clairfort in May 2025, he was partner at Banning and before that M&A lawyer at Van Doorne in Amsterdam for more than nine years.
