Pieter is a Dutch (advocaat) and English (solicitor) qualified lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. He focuses on banking and financing transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border financing transactions including export, trade and commodities finance and asset-backed finance. Pieter also has a broad experience in debt capital markets and derivatives transactions. Pieter’s clients include financial institutions, institutional and private equity investors, corporates and public authorities. Pieter regularly works on matters involving Sub-Saharan Africa with a particular focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries.

The transactions he works on often have a bespoke character, requiring creative and sound multi-disciplinary legal solutions, which are facilitated by his knowledge of common law and civil law as well as his ability to advise and transact in French, Portuguese, German and Dutch, in addition to English. 

Pieter has been recognised by leading legal publications, Chamber’s & Partners, ILFR 1000 and Legal 500 for his technical skill, client service and contribution to the legal industry.
 

Pieter is a Dutch (advocaat) and English (solicitor) qualified lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. He focuses on banking and financing transactions in a broad sense, with a particular focus on securitisation and structured finance more generally. Pieter’s clients include financial institutions, institutional and private equity investors, corporates and public authorities.

He has been working on numerous matters involving Sub-Saharan Africa with a particular focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries. Pieter is based in Johannesburg and spends a considerable amount of time in other countries in the region advising important stakeholders such as governmental agencies.

Pieter has been recognised in the legal directories as one of the leading structured finance practioners in the Netherlands and, since he moved to Johannesburg, also in South Africa, and regularly advises on structured finance transactions involving mortgage loans, consumer loans, microfinance loans, car loans and leases, rolling stock, trade receivables, inventory, commodities, commercial real estate and equipment and machinery. The transaction often have a cross-border dimension. 

His clients include Dutch banks, such as ING, Rabobank, ABN AMRO and NIBC, as well as numerous foreign financial institutions and investors, including Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Barclays, NatWest, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Natixis, CACIB, UBS, Credit Suisse and Nordea. He advises STS Verification International in connection with their verification of European securitisation transaction and is a member of the South African Securitisation Forum. He is also assisting a microfinance lender on a securitisation of loan receivables in various African countries.

The transactions he works on often have a bespoke character, requiring creative and sound multi-disciplinary legal solutions, which are facilitated by his knowledge of common law and civil law as well as his ability to advise and transact in French, Portuguese, German and Dutch, in addition to English.

Pieter has been recognised by leading legal publications, Chamber’s & Partners, ILFR 1000 and Legal 500 for his technical skill, client service and contribution to the legal industry.
 

Pieter is a Dutch (advocaat) and English (solicitor) qualified lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. He focuses on public internation law (more in particular the law of the sea), maritime law banking and financing transactions in a broad sense. Pieter's clients include financial institutions, institutional and private equity investors, corporates and public authorities. In addition to his finance practice, Pieter recently finished his PhD thesis to the University of Hamburg dealing with state responsibility for illegal fishing in the EEZs of West African countries. 

For his research he had to research and consider the international legal framework that applies to the various maritime areas under a state's jurisdiction, national laws and regulations that apply to the use of the maritime zones, international treaties applying to maritime transport and challenges experienced by coastal states due to the use by vessels of flags of convenience and maritime crime. 

Pieter has provided advice to the government of São Tomé e Príncipe in relation to various maritime matters including:

• The arbitration proceedings before the Permanent Court of Arbitration between Malta and São Tomé e Príncipe relating to the illegal bunkering activities of MV "Duzgit Integrity"
• The arrest and legal proceedings following the sinking of the FV Thunder in the EEZ of São Tomé e Príncipe
• The revision of the fisheries regulation of São Tomé e Príncipe resulting in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act (Lei no. 09/2022; Lei das Pescas e da Acquacultura) 
• Maritime jurisdictional matters
• Exploration and exploitation of energy resources in the maritime zones
• The possible extension the continental shelf
• Legal arrangements regarding the establishment and commercialisation of a deep water port