Leading international law firm, Clifford Chance advised Rabobank on its strategic partnership with Kepler Cheuvreux, Europe’s leading independent broker. The investment ensures Rabobank’s corporate clients can benefit from better ECM and brokerage services as well as greater scale and scope. Together Rabobank and Kepler Cheuvreux will be the number 1 equity brokerage house in the Benelux.

This strategic partnership has been designed to combine Rabobank’s banking and ECM relationships with Kepler Cheuvreux’s research expertise and distribution reach. The partnership provides Rabobank’s listed clients with better access to the investor community. Rabobank will participate in Kepler Cheuvreux’s innovative ECM partnership model. This will link the corporate clients of Rabobank to over 1,200 institutional investors that are serviced by Kepler Cheuvreux through its 115 sales and sales traders, working from a multi-local network of 13 offices in 10 countries.

Based in Utrecht, Rabobank’s ECM team will leverage the Kepler Cheuvreux sales, sales trading and research team based in Amsterdam and its multi-local network in Europe and US. Kepler Cheuvreux has been present in Amsterdam since 2001.

Clifford Chance advised Rabobank with a cross-border team comprised of:

* in Paris, Gilles Lebreton, partner, Michael Samol and Thierry Diouf, associates, on corporate aspects, Olivier Gaillard, counsel and Jérémy Guilbault, associate, on commercial contracts aspects, Sébastien Praicheux, counsel and Hélène Kouyaté, associate, on financing aspects;
* in Amsterdam, Hans Beerlage, Floris van de Bult, Jurgen van der Meer, partners, and Luuk Wieringh, associate.