Our firm
With significant experience in complex corporate and M&A matters, we combine technical precision with a pragmatic, hands-on approach, focused on delivering clear and workable solutions for our clients.
Our practice
Our practice is built on many years of experience advising corporate clients, private equity firms and business owners on transactions and complex corporate matters. That experience spans large and often cross-border transactions as well as mid-market, domestic and bolt-on deals.
We advise on matters where clarity, judgment and execution matter. Each engagement is approached with a clear focus on the commercial rationale of the transaction and the practical realities of getting a deal done. Our advice is concise, solution-oriented and tailored to the specific objectives of the client.
Engagements are handled with senior attention throughout, ensuring continuity, direct communication and decisive deal leadership. Where a matter requires additional specialist input, we work closely with a trusted network of tax advisers, notaries and other experts, both in the Netherlands and internationally, to provide an integrated and efficient service.
In case we need to involve other specialists, we have a solid professional network of tax advisers, notaries and other experts (both in the Netherlands and abroad) to deliver you a smooth, integrated service.
Jordi Wals
Wals Law was founded by Jordi Wals. He advises corporate clients, private equity firms and business owners on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and corporate governance matters.
Jordi started his career in 2011 at Linklaters LLP, where he focused on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. From September 2016 to February 2017, he was seconded to Linklaters’ Madrid office, where he managed and coordinated a complex multi-jurisdictional distressed M&A transaction. He left Linklaters in 2018.
Following his time at Linklaters, Jordi combined working as a contract lawyer for international law firms and large multinational corporations, including ASML and LeasePlan Corporation (now Ayvens), with the co-founding of a boutique corporate and M&A practice together with a former Linklaters colleague.
In 2021, Jordi joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, further strengthening his experience with complex and cross-border transactions. At the beginning of 2025, he joined a leading corporate law firm in the Northern Netherlands as a partner, with a particular focus on mid-market corporate and M&A work. He remains associated with that firm on an of-counsel basis.
Across these roles, Jordi has advised on complex cross-border transactions as well as domestic mid-market and bolt-on deals, across a broad range of sectors. Over the years, he has been notably involved in transactions in the energy and infrastructure space. His experience also includes advising on corporate governance matters and a wide range of corporate issues, including board responsibilities, shareholder relations and ongoing advisory work in both transactional and non-transactional contexts.
Experience
Highlights of Jordi’s experience and transactions of significance in which he has been involved include advising:
- A European energy and technical services group on a range of matters, including the sale of a leading provider of end-to-end ATES solutions for households and businesses in the Netherlands to a Dutch energy company, the sale of a geothermal energy developer and producer and the proposed sale of an electric vehicle charging business in the Netherlands.
- An infrastructure fund on the sale of one of the Netherlands’ largest wholesale open-access fibre broadband network operators to a pan-European digital infrastructure platform.
- An international funeral services group on a series of transactions, includin the acquisition of a portfolio of crematoria in the Netherlands, the acquisition of a group comprising crematoria in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland as well as the global market leader in the design, construction and maintenance of cremators, filtration and incineration equipment, and smaller bolt-on transactions.
- A Dutch family office on setting up the acquisition structure for their buy and build strategy in the healthcare sector and advising on a series of such acquisitions.
- A Dutch media group on the sale of its puzzle and braintainment activities.
- A Swedish security technology company on the acquisition of its principal distributor in the Netherlands.
- A British petrol station operator on the acquisition of an operator in the Netherlands.
- A German agricultural company on the acquisition of an interest in a Dutch importer of agricultural machinery.
- A Belgian media group on its public takeover bid for the largest Dutch media group.
- The underwriters on the re-IPO of a Dutch financial institution.
- A Japanese conglomerate on its public takeover bid for a Dutch staffing company.
- A listed international retail group and its e-commerce subsidiary on the acquisition of a majority stake in a last-mile delivery specialist, followed by the acquisition of the remaining minority interest.
- A global food group on the acquisition of a Netherlands-based producer of frozen food products.
- A regulated mortgage lender on the acquisition of a residential mortgage loan portfolio from a Dutch financial institution.
- An infrastructure investment fund on the acquisition and subsequent combination of three airport ground services equipment rental and services businesses operating in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
- The founder of a digital signage company on a minority investment by a private equity firm and the combination with an existing portfolio company.
Education
2011 Leiden University, LL.M. (Company Law)