Joost is a senior associate in the firm's corporate group. He specialises in corporate and securities law transactions, including public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance.
Joost's work experience includes a number of years at leading international law firm Linklaters in London, specialising in equity and debt capital market issuance. In London he completed a client secondment with Morgan Stanley, providing transaction management and compliance advisory services. Joost also had a one year secondment to the Takeovers Panel (New Zealand), where he advised on a range of compliance, regulatory, and enforcement issues.
Examples of Work
- Advising on all aspects of public and private securities issuance transactions and operation of the Securities Act, including offer structuring, exemptions, and drafting of offer documentation
- Advising on the structuring of investments, including identifying appropriate investment vehicles and ongoing corporate governance and compliance issues
- Lloyds Banking Group - participation in state recapitalisation, liquidity facility, and asset protection schemes including negotiation with HM Treasury on structuring issues
- Lloyds TSB Group - acquisition of HBOS under a Companies Act (UK) scheme of arrangement
- Barclays - £3 billion callable perpetual capital instruments
- Credit Suisse - US$1.2 billion structured repackaged participation securities
- Credit Agricole - $250 million deeply subordinated perpetual notes
- Barclays - US$1 billion American Depositary Receipts issue representing preference shares
- Rabobank Nederland - $900 million perpetual non-cumulative capital securities
Other Credentials
- Solicitor, England and Wales
