Speaker details

41st International Financial Law Conference

6 May - 8 May 2026

The Palace Hotel, Madrid, Spain

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Gaby Smeenk

Biography

Gaby is a partner in De Brauw's Corporate practice and has a specific focus on cross-border equity capital markets and M&A transactions. Gaby's transactional practice includes advising on IPOs, public takeovers, private M&A and joint ventures. In addition to her transactional practice, Gaby advises listed companies on compliance with securities laws and disclosure obligations.    Gaby set up De Brauw's Shanghai office in 2014 and headed the office until 2017. Accordingly, Gaby's experience includes acting as lead counsel in transactions with a strong Asian component. Gaby previously also worked in De Brauw's New York office.  Gaby is ranked in Legal 500 for both Equity Capital Markets and M&A and ranked in IFLR1000's women leaders in law for the Netherlands.

Session

Outflows of companies to US markets

Thursday 7 May (1130 - 1245)

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