News

December 7, 2020 – Sjoerd Mol has been awarded M&A lawyer of the Year

December 2, 2020 – Sjoerd Mol has been nominated as M&A lawyer of the year by Brookz and Dealsuite

November 26, 2020 – Benvalor advised packaging-free online supermarket PieterPot on raising € 2.7 million in growth financing from Shift Invest, Innovation Quarter and Future Food Fund

August 13, 2020 – THE UBO-REGISTER IS ON ITS WAY: DO I NEED TO REGISTER?

July 21, 2020 – Benvalor advised BOM Brabant Ventures and Citryll on closing a € 18.5 million fund round led by Seventure and BioGeneration Ventures with existing investors BOM Brabant Ventures, BrightGene, and ModiQuest.

July 13, 2020 – Benvalor advised Energiefonds Overijssel on its investment in Europe’s largest floating solar park in Zwolle, the Netherlands

May 28, 2020 – Benvalor assists with € 1 million Series A round in BioTech company Core Life Analytics

May 27, 2020 – Benvalor assisted with seed investment in MedTech company Haermonics

April 22, 2020 – Benvalor advised the selling shareholders of Sustainalytics in the acquisiton by Morningstar

April 1, 2020 – Benvalor advises LUMO Labs on structuring of LUMO Fund II, a 20 million (pre)seed fund for innovative startups

March 16, 2020 – Background: How are the measures aimed at tackling the coronavirus taken and enforced?

February 12, 2020 – Emma Voorn joins Benvalor

January 20, 2020 – Leonoor Wijnbergen appointed associate partner

October 21, 2019 – Benvalor organizes growth capital workshop for entrepreneurs

October 14, 2019 – Benvalor has advised BOM Brabant Ventures, Value Creation Capital and InProcess-LSP with an investment in InProcess-LSP

September 23, 2019 – The 26^th IBA Insolvency Conference will be held in Edinburgh from 17 through 19 May 2020.

July 31, 2019 – Benvalor advised Doculayer with securing € 3 million series A investment

April 16, 2019 – Benvalor has advised Pymwymic with an investment round of € 9 million in Ceradis.

March 7, 2019 – Benvalor has advised BOM Brabant Ventures in a Series‑A investment in Bioinformatics software engineering company Enpicom

December 13, 2018 – Benvalor advises consortium of investors on € 7 million investment round in FairPhone

October 30, 2018 – Sjoerd Mol appointed as member of the Investment Committee BOM Brabant Ventures

July 20, 2018 – Column Sjoerd Mol on Sprout​.nl — Business angels vs. venture capital

July 18, 2018 – Huan Tan in broadcast Nieuwsuur regarding KEI

June 28, 2018 – Benvalor advised NORMN Hangers on raising investment from the Textile Innovation Fund

April 4, 2018 – Benvalor advised Unchain​.io

March 29, 2018 – Ardena acquires ChemConnection

March 23, 2018 – Huan Tan is Co-Chair of the 24^th IBA Insolvency Conference

February 16, 2018 – Benvalor expands tax & M&A practice

February 6, 2018 – On 7 February 2018 Benvalor once again co-organises a one-day Venture Capital legal training with the Dutch Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (NVP).

December 22, 2017 – Benvalor advised delivery startup SuperBuddy with 1 million euro fundraising

December 20, 2017 – Column Sjoerd Mol on Sprout​.nl — Convertibles vs. shares

November 15, 2017 – Benvalor has advised KIKK Capital with its investment in Tractus 3D B.V.

October 23, 2017 – Benvalor launches BEN – the contract generator

October 10, 2017 – Benvalor partners with Plug and Play — Fashion for Good

October 2, 2017 – Sjoerd Mol and Marije van den Bergh have advised SnappCar with the acquisition of German competitor Tamyca

August 1, 2017 – Maurits Bos and Marije van den Bergh have advised Sustainalytics with securing a strategic investment by Morningstar

July 20, 2017 – Benvalor has advised Realtime Performance Europe B.V. with the sale of its main assets to PDF Solutions

June 20, 2017 – Maurits Bos and Sjoerd Mol give a venture capital talk at Fashion for Good

April 19, 2017 – Benvalor has advised InnovationQuarter with its investment in Cybersprint

April 19, 2017 – Benvalor has advised CQ Green Protein Fund with its investment in The Dutch Weed Burger

March 20, 2017 – Benvalor has advised InnovationQuarter with its investment in MOCS

January 19, 2017 – On 19 January 2017 Sjoerd Mol, as chairman of the Dutch Corporate Finance Association, opened trading on the Amsterdam Exchange by sounding the gong, accompanied by all nominees for the ​‘Deal of the Year’ award.

December 14, 2016 – We are delighted to announce: Maurits Bos appointed partner as of 1 January 2017

December 5, 2016 – On 15 February 2017 Benvalor co-organises a one-day Venture Capital legal training with the Dutch Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (NVP).

November 30, 2016 – Sjoerd Mol on venture capital in business magazine Sprout

November 18, 2016 – Benvalor advises KIKK Capital with setting up a new Dutch Venture Capital Fund

October 20, 2016 – Sjoerd Mol has been interviewed on developments in the Dutch M&A market.

September 28, 2016 – Benvalor advises Prolira with investment by Health Innovations and Holland Ventures

September 2, 2016 – Book published co-authored by Sjoerd Mol: Venture Capital Deal Terms: a guide to negotiating and structuring venture capital transactions.

August 20, 2016 – Benvalor advises Duplaco with first investment by CQ Green Protein Fund

August 9, 2016 – Benvalor advises Otly! with investment by Uber

June 27, 2016 – Brief update EU data protection legislation

June 23, 2016 – Car sharing platform ParkFlyRent has secured additional growth funding from its current shareholders, as well as a management ​‘buy-in’ by new CMO Jochem de Boer.

June 20, 2016 – Our senior associate Maurits Bos has been listed as one of 35 talented attorneys up to the age of 35 in Dutch legal magazine Advocatenblad.

June 6, 2016 – Sjoerd Mol appointed as Chairman of the Dutch Corporate Finance Association

May 23, 2016 – This week Huan Tan, partner at Benvalor, is in Milan attending the IBA Annual Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference.

April 18, 2016 – A second marriage is regularly the source of conflict over the settlement of an estate. Children are often unpleasantly surprised when they find out how the estate will be divided between them and their stepparent. The inheritance lawyers at Benvalor write about this issue — and possible solutions — on our inheritance blog (in Dutch).

March 11, 2016 – Benvalor has assisted Goboony in securing € 350,000 seed funding.

February 19, 2016 – Benvalor has advised Toxys B.V. with regard to the investment in its capital by InnovationQuarter and Zeeuws Investeringsfonds.

February 4, 2016 – Maurits Bos shares his experiences on visiting Kathmandu for Rockstart Impact

January 27, 2016 – Benvalor is the proud legal partner of Rockstart’s Web & Mobile Accelerator Program

January 15, 2016 – New post on our inheritance law blog: under Dutch law anyone hiding a joint property from other heirs, trying to keep it outside the division of the estate, can forfeit one’s rights to this property. This is a provision of law that can lead to far-reaching consequenses.

January 15, 2016 – Benvalor has advised SolarMonkey with regard to the investment in its capital by InnovationQuarter and BK Ventures.

January 12, 2016 – Benvalor co-organises a one-day venture capital legal training with Dutch private equity organisation (NVP) and Capital Waters .

December 23, 2015 – Benvalor assists LeadBoxer in securing 500K seed funding from The Hatch Firm

December 22, 2015 – Benvalor assist makers of ​‘Cinema Intelligence’ Share Dimension with investment by Vista Group International

November 20, 2015 – The Dutch private equity and venture capital association NVP, representing 90% of private equity and venture capital under management in the Netherlands, organizes a panel discussion on angels and VCs. Sjoerd Mol will be one of the panel members.

November 16, 2015 – Benvalor is the proud Legal Partner of iMPACT Booster, a new accelerator aiming to support the creation of social and environmental impact in emerging countries.

November 3, 2015 – Benvalor has assisted SnappCar in the acquisition of Swedish competitor FlexiDrive

October 8, 2015 – Benvalor has advised Greensoter BV on the takeover of Embed Engineering BV, developer of custom electronics, hardware and embedded software.

September 29, 2015 – Benvalor has advised on the merger of Groenewegen en Partners and Incassade.

September 28, 2015 – Sjoerd Mol gave a speech on Termsheet essentials during the Amsterdam Capital Week.

September 24, 2015 – An interview with Concetta Allegra on the new Work and Security Act was published in the ​‘Middelpunt’ magazine.

September 17, 2015 – New post on the Benvalor inheritance law blog (in Dutch): Sibblings embezzling parents’ money. What are the options for recovery?

September 1, 2015 – Seminar Emerging companies and Venture capital on 1 October

August 18, 2015 – Masterclass succession planning and transfer of family-owned businesses

July 10, 2015 – Judith Jansens van Gellicum completed the succession law course for attorneys ​‘cum laude’ on 7 July.

July 9, 2015 – Concetta Allegra published an article on forced reduction in working hours in child care services in the Labour Law magazine.

July 2, 2015 – The digital magazine for entrepreneurs Sprout interviewed Sjoerd Mol on convertible loans.

June 26, 2015 – A new blog was posted on Capitalwaters​.com on how to deal with confidential information and NDA’s.

May 1, 2015 – Benvalor advised car sharing platform SnappCar in the acquisition of its Danish equivalent MinBilDinBil.

March 2, 2015 – Most startups cannot offer their employees a good salary. What they can do is offer shares.

February 1, 2015 – Maurits Bos joins Benvalor per 1 February 2015.

January 19, 2015 – Sjoerd Mol and Marije van den Bergh have advised the selling shareholders at the acquisition of television channel NostalgieNet by Just Media B.V.

December 31, 2014 – Benvalor specialists for inheritance (tax) law plea for expansion new law of inhertitance in Dutch newspaper the Telegraaf.

December 9, 2014 – Benvalor advised off shore start up Barge Master on investment by Parcom.

June 15, 2013 – Leonoor Wijnbergen’s article on service of judicial documents to unknown heirs and other unknown parties was published in the 3^rd issue of 2013 of the Dutch Journal on Procedural Law in Practice.

November 26, 2011 – Leonoor Wijnbergen published an article in the Dutch WPNR journal on the possibility for a court to draw ​‘the conclusion deemed advisable’ in respect to procedural errors.