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Corporate finance and value creation for the Dutch market

Alehar works with Dutch companies, founders and investors across the full corporate finance cycle: growing the value of the business, running the finance function day to day, and preparing for fundraising, debt and M&A.

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Market context

How we work with companies in the Netherlands

Dutch companies internationalise early, and most sit inside a familiar structure: a personal holding BV above the operating company, which shapes how a sale or raise is executed and taxed. Deal processes here are efficient and well organised, and buyers and investors expect the same from the company's numbers. Larger companies may also need to involve their works council before a change of control. English is the working language of most Dutch deals, which keeps the buyer pool international from the start. We work with founders and management across the full cycle: reporting and forecasting between transactions, then the raise, sale or acquisition itself. We also support Dutch companies and investors with cross-border ambitions.

When clients come to us

  • 01You're preparing for investor, lender or buyer conversations and the materials need to hold up.
  • 02You want a stronger finance function (reporting, forecasting and KPIs) without building a full team.
  • 03You need a clearer valuation view before a sale, acquisition or financing.
  • 04You're expanding or investing across borders.

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Common questions

Both. We help grow the value of the business and run the finance function day to day (reporting, forecasting, KPIs, investor relations), and we lead the financing, sale or acquisition when the moment comes.
It usually helps, and it always matters. The holding structure shapes what is actually sold, how the proceeds land, and what your tax advisor can do with them, so buyers and investors will want the structure chart early. Where the structure has grown untidy over the years, with side entities, intercompany loans or mixed private and business assets, we help clean it up before the process starts. Your Dutch tax and legal advisors own the structuring advice; we run the transaction around it.
If your company has a works council, it generally has the right to be asked for advice before a change of control is agreed, and buyers will expect that step to be handled properly. It is a sequencing question more than an obstacle: the request for advice has to land at the right moment, with the right information, without breaking confidentiality earlier in the process. We plan the process around it together with your legal advisors so the timeline holds.
It widens the pool. Dutch companies that internationalise early are attractive to foreign strategics and funds precisely because the expansion work is proven, and processes here run comfortably in English, which keeps international buyers fully in play. The practical consequence is that your buyer list should be built internationally from the start, not added as an afterthought. We map domestic and cross-border buyers together and run a single process that treats both seriously.
Yes. Much of our work has a cross-border leg: Dutch companies expanding or acquiring abroad, international buyers and investors looking at Dutch companies, and processes that run across several jurisdictions at once. We build that into the plan from the first conversation, from valuation and diligence to managing parties in different countries, time zones, and languages.
A short note on what you're trying to do, your latest accounts, a recent forecast or model if you have one, any investor or buyer materials, and the deadline or decision you're working toward.

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