Christiaan is a partner at Allen & Overy in the Corporate Department in Amsterdam. Christiaan specialises in corporate law and M&A transactions with a focus on public M&A, corporate governance and shareholder activism and complex corporate transactions. Christiaan is trusted advisor of various listed companies and multinationals. Christiaan also focuses on life sciences and is co-head of the Amsterdam life science group.
Christiaan has published a comprehensive text book on Dutch public takeovers. He is a fellow at the Business & Law Research Centre of the Van der Heijden institution for corporate law of the Nijmegen University and a member of the ABA and the American Bar Foundation.