Joost Polman

Joost advises his clients on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including takeovers, leveraged buyouts, (add-on) acquisitions, divestments, auctions, joint ventures, minority investments and management equity programs. While his clients operate across a wide range of sectors, he has significant experience in the financial sector as well as the media, IT, technology and telecom sectors. Joost is a member of the firm's Technology group. Aside this, Joost regularly lectures university students, peers or clients at seminars and workshops on a wide range of M&A-related topics.

Joost has registered the following principal legal practice area in the Netherlands Bar's register of legal practice areas: Corporate Law.

Based on this registration, he is required to obtain a minimum of ten training credits per calendar year in in this practice area in accordance with the standards set by The Netherlands Bar.

• Advised Apheon Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Keesing Media Group as well as its subsequent exit to BC Partners.
• Advised APG Asset Management and TenneT on the formation of an integrated Towerco joint venture with Royal KPN.
• Advised APG Asset Management on the formation of a greenfield joint venture (Glaspoort) with Royal KPN on the rollout of fiber connections in the Netherlands.
• Advised Bain Capital's portfolio company Kantar on the acquisition of MeMo2, a cross media research and analytics firm.
• Advised UK-listed insurer Chesnara and its Dutch subsidiaries on numerous insurance portfolio acquisitions and divestments, including the acquisition of SCILDON and the acquisition of Robein Leven.
• Advised CR Group and its equity investors on the acquisition of Fox-Crypto, provider of cyber-security solutions.
• Advised FSN Capital on the acquisition of IT-consultancy firm ilionx, and the subsequent add-on acquisition of Inergy.
• Advised FSN Capital on the simultaneous acquisitions of OptiGroup, Hygos, TPC and BFG, creating a leading business-to-business distributor of business essentials.
• Advised FSN Capital on the acquisition of Microsoft-partner Fellowmind, and the subsequent add-on acquisition of Synlogic, and carve-out of AXtension.
• Advised Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, on the Series Seed investment in Payaut, a Dutch automated payment provider for online platforms and marketplaces.
• Advised Lone Star Funds on the acquisition of ERIKS from SHV.
• Advised Egeria on numerous acquisitions and exits, including the acquisition and subsequent exit of IQI, the acquisition of APOC Aviation, the acquisition of MAAS Aviation, and the exit of Hitec Power Protection.
• Advised Wagram Capital Partners on numerous acquisitions and exits, including the acquisition of Creamy Creation, as well as the exits of Royal Herkel, Nijhuis Industries to Saur, Drukkerij Zwart and Tanatex Chemicals.
• Advised Roularta Media Group on the acquisitions of New Skool Media and WPG Media, as well a number of magazines including Landleven and Flow.

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