Elise works as a tax adviser and lawyer in the Tax practice group. Her main duties include providing tax advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and private equity transactions. In her advisory work, she mainly deals with matters regarding corporation tax, dividend tax and the formal aspects of tax law.
Elise Heikens
Tax Adviser | Attorney-at-law | Associate
- Advised Egeria and the management of Fletcher Hotels on the sale of 100% of the shares in Fletcher Hotels to Sunday PropTech. With 170 hotels in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, Fletcher Hotels is the largest hotel group in the Netherlands.
- Advised Industrial Food Automation Coöperatief U.A., a company affiliated with Investindustrial and comprising the Kiremko, Idaho Steel and Reyco brands, on its acquisition of Tummers Group and Van der Giessen. The combined group has been renamed Foodera Technologies.
- Advised Unigel Participações S.A. and certain subsidiaries on the successful completion of a cross-border restructuring involving over USD 800 million in debt. This restructuring led to new investments, bonds, convertible bonds, and Dutch depositary receipts for shares in Unigel's Dutch parent company.
- LL.M. Tax Law (cum laude) (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- LL.M. Company Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- LL.B. Tax Law (Leiden University)
- LL.B. Dutch Law (Leiden University)
- Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2024
Dutch, English
