Petra Zijp

Some of Petra's recent work highlights include assisting:

• Longstanding client a.s.r. with its accelerated bookbuild offering following the proposed business combination with Aegon Nederland.
• Triodos Bank with the listing of Triodos Bank's depository receipts on the MTF of Captin.
• The underwriters in the USD 700,000,000 (approx. EUR 637,000,000) with capital raise of argenx (the largest Euronext ABB of 2022).
• Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society U.A. (OIKOCREDIT) with the update of its share issuance programme. NautaDutilh has been involved with the update of this programme since 2020. In parallel, Petra assisted Stichting Oikocredit International Share Foundation with the update of its depository receipts issuance programme.
• de Volksbank with the issuance of EUR 500,000,000 senior non-preferred notes.
• Longstanding client Petrobras, by means of its Dutch finance subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V., with an abbreviated five-day tender offer for nineteen series of outstanding notes in April 2022 and again in July 2022 for 20 series of notes.
• ENEL Finance International N.V. (ENEL) with the update of its euro commercial paper (ECP) programme.
• GlaxoSmithKline with the establishment of its EUR 10,000,000,000 Medium Term Note Programme in 2022, by incorporating its Dutch health subsidiary GSK Consumer Healthcare Capital NL B.V. as an issuer under the programme and making the programme Dutch law compliant.
• EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG and EnBW International Finance B.V. as issuers with the update of its EUR 10,000,000,000 Debt Issuance Programme.
• H&M (the issuer) as to Dutch law with the yearly update of their EUR 2,000,000,000 EMTN Programme.
• FEMSA with its partial divestment of its stake in Heineken raising EUR 3.2 billion via an accelerated bookbuild offering and EUR 500 million via an exchangeable bond offering.

• 'I highly appreciate Petra Zijp's high seniority, her profound international legal experience and her advanced strategic skills. It's a true pleasure to work with Petra.'
  The Legal 500, 2025
• ‘Petra Zijp and Antonia Netiv deserve special mention. They are incredibly user-friendly, knowledgeable and effective in their advice to clients.’
  The Legal 500, 2025
• "Petra Zijp is very committed, very hands-on and always available. I also appreciate the way she manages the relationship with Nauta's partner firms abroad on international transactions, so we can focus on our own tasks." Chambers Europe 2023
• "Petra Zijp is great. She is a very reassuring presence on Zoom calls."
  The Legal 500 EMEA 2022
• "Petra stands out with her excellent performance", "is very responsive, diligent and helpful" and "is an impressive capital markets lawyer and a formidable negotiator, a trusted adviser to Dutch companies and investment banks."
  The Legal 500 EMEA & Chambers Europe 2021
• Petra is sinds 2020 door IFLR1000 gerankt als 'Market Leader' op het gebied van Capital Markets.
• Petra is in het Practical Law Company's Yearbook aangewezen als een zeer aanbevolen Equity Capital Markets practitioner in Nederland.
• Petra wordt aanbevolen in the Legal 500 Series for Capital Markets en door de International Financial Law Review 1000 genoemd als een van 's werelds meest vooraanstaande advocaten in de Equity Capital Markets. Zij is actief in de International Bar Association en lid van de Vereniging voor Financieel Recht.

Petra studeerde in 1992 af aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (Engels en Italiaans) en in 1994 (Rechten) en trad in 1995 in dienst bij NautaDutilh. In 1999 en 2000 was zij werkzaam op ons kantoor in Londen, waarna zij begin 2001 terugkeerde naar het kantoor in Amsterdam. In 2002 werd zij partner en van 2017 tot 2022 was zij managing partner van NautaDutilh.