Judith Raijmakers

Judith Raijmakers specialises in banking and finance law and acts for banks, financial institutions, large corporates and investors in various types of cross-border finance transactions. She also advises leading banks and institutions on financial regulatory matters and acts as soundboard for various national and foreign experts and authorities.

• Advising the buyer in the USD 3 billion + financing project for the acquisition of the IP and science business of Thomson Reuters Corporatio.
• Assisting Bank of America Merill Lynch with the USD 2.9 billion financing for the acquisition of Interactive Intelligence Group Inc.
• Working together with Morgan Stanley on the USD 2.5 billion (re)financing of Samsonite’s acquisition of Tumi. 
• Advising several financial institutions with head quarters in Latin America with their banking and financing operations in Europe. 
• Assisting Alpha Trains group on the acquisitions of (future) railroad stock and the set up and changes to the EUR 1.25 billion finance platform.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Aviation
• Banking
• Financial services
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences

• Judith was admitted to the Amsterdam Bar in 2000 and to the Luxembourg Bar in 2009.

• She is a member of The Luxembourg Bankers' Association (ABBL).

• Master’s Civil law and European law, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, (both cum laude), 1999
• European and French law, University of Paris (Paris II – Assas), 1998
• Post-graduate program in Financing and Security rights, Grotius Academy, 2005.