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 Egeria on its acquisition of Afrika Invest, the holding company of Tanzania Specialist and Africa Safari, from its founders.
• Advised Podimo on the acquisition of Tonny Media and Sjonny TV from its founders.
• Advised Saferoad (a portfolio company of FSN Capital) on the acquisition of PMF Stalen Masten from its founder.
• 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.

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