Denise Ozmis

Denise Ozmis

Legal Director
Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam N.V.

Biography

Denise Ozmis is a legal director in Baker McKenzie's Corporate M&A group based in Amsterdam. Denise advises clients in relation to Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity Capital Markets as well as Dutch corporate governance matters and listing requirements.

Prior to joining the Firm, Denise advised on M&A transactions and corporate governance matters as an in-house lawyer for AkzoNobel, an Amsterdam based global paints and coatings company.

Denise was nominated Best Young M&A Lawyer in 2021.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Recently advised Legrand, a French conglomerate, with its acquisition of Enovation in the Netherlands.
  • Recently advised a US cloud-computing company, with two acquisitions in the Netherlands.
  • Recently advised a global professional services company in connection with a series of acquisitions of technology companies in the Netherlands.
  • Advised Wagram Equity Partners on the acquisition of the Creamy Creation business (a manufacturing business in beverages) from FrieslandCampina.
  • Advised BG Light B.V. on the acquisition of It’s About Romi B.V.
  • Advised Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG on MotorK IPO and listing on Euronext Amsterdam.
  • Advised Ellomay Capital Ltd. on the acquisition of a Dutch based renewable energy production facility.
  • Advised Embracer Group AB with the purchase of Vertigo Games Holding B.V.
  • Advised Audax Private Equity in connection with the acquisition of Pointer Branch Protection by Corsearch, being a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity.
  • Advised Corsearch with its acquisition of Pointer Brand Protection.

Corporate Responsibility

Denise participated in the Legal Atlas for Street Youth project, which focused on the rights of street children worldwide.

Admissions

  • Amsterdam~Netherlands (2013)

Education

  • Utrecht University (LLM Law) (2010)

Languages

  • Dutch
  • English
  • Turkish

Denise has published a legal insight on the Dutch legislative proposal about the right of the board of management to invoke a cooling-off period of up to 250 days.

Denise has published in Dutch legal journals about the Dutch Act on collective settlement of mass damage claims and supervision on housing corporations.