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DLA Piper Australia has recruited Linklaters partner and head of finance in Amsterdam Onno Bakker. A specialist finance lawyer, Bakker will be based in the firm’s Sydney office as a member of the Asia Pacific finance and projects practice.

Bakker is dual Australian and English law qualified, having previously worked at Clayton Utz in Australia before joining Linklaters in London in 2002 and then Linklaters in Amsterdam in 2004. He specialises in syndicated finance and (leveraged) acquisition finance, as well as trade finance and asset finance. He regularly advises major international investment banks and sponsors on complex cross-border finance matters.


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