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Susan Husband

Susan is a corporate partner at CB Law. She heads the firms legal practice and leads its service offerings and team. Susan specializes in corporate law and represents and counsels multinational companies on all aspects of Dutch corporate and business law. She has extensive experience in the design, feasibility analysis, execution, implementation and project management of business transformations, including the setup and liquidation of corporate structures, pre-merger carve outs, post-merger integrations, entity-to-branch conversions and other types of multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations.

Susan’s expertise includes counselling on day-to-day corporate matters, and (the structuring of) major events in company life cycles, such as legal entity formation, branch establishments, capital placements and capital stock transactions, cross-border transactions, mergers, spinoffs, legal entity conversions, corporate governance matters, loan restructuring programs and liquidations.

Susan’s legal practice is particularly focused on advising on in and outbound corporate reorganizations within the European Economic Area, with a special focus on the implementation of cross-border mergers and conversions.

Recent cases handled

• Acting as lead legal counsel to a large multinational automotive technology & systems supplier in connection with their cross-border legal entity reduction program.
• Acting as lead legal counsel to a large multinational manufacturer of and trader and operator in engines and turbochargers for the maritime and automotive industry, in connection with their cross-border merger and post-merger integration of their newly acquired European business with their Dutch business operations with 700+ employees.
• Acting as lead legal counsel to a large multinational manufacturer of and trader in electronic and electrical equipment in connection with the reorganization of their EU sales structure and setup of an EU branch structure.
• Acting as Dutch legal counsel to a large CEE banking institution, in connection with a spin-off of their Dutch closed-end real estate investment fund and cross-border migration from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic.
• Acting as lead legal counsel to a leading multinational manufacturer of locomotives, freight cars, and passenger transit vehicles in connection with the legal entity rationalization of their European group structure.
• Acting as Dutch legal counsel to a leading multinational food manufacturer and distributor in connection with their global corporate reorganization and loan restructuring program.
• Acting as Dutch legal counsel to a leading multinational manufacturer and distributor of printers and imaging products in connection with their cross-border migration from the Netherlands to Belgium.
• Acting as Dutch legal counsel to a leading Spanish hotel group in connection with their cross-border migration from the Netherlands to Spain.