amsterdamWith last week’s announcement of Herbert Smith’s formal alliance with Stibbe and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek’s renewed merger talks with Linklaters, the top end of the turbulent Dutch market looks virtually wrapped up.

Nauta Dutilh is now the only premier Dutch firm that is not exclusively tied to an Anglo-Saxon firm, but it is an increasingly loyal ‘best friend’ to Slaughter and May.