Herke specializes in venture capital, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and advises clients on corporate governance and other corporate law issues.

Herke has a broad transactional and corporate advisory practice. She has extensive experience in transactions in Healthcare & Life Sciences and TMC. Clients include national and international private equity and venture capital firms, investment funds and national and international corporate clients.

"She is an excellent communicator, proactive and in charge of the processes. She has an eye for detail and gives advice and not just options."

"Herke van Hulst is available with sound legal and tactical advice. We value her deep knowledge and expertise."

Chambers and Partners 2024

Herke is a graduate of the University of Utrecht and studied law at Panthéon-Assas in Paris. She was admitted to the Dutch bar in 1996. Prior to joining Osborne Clarke in December 2015, Herke was Counsel at Clifford Chance LLP in Amsterdam where she worked for 15 years.

Over the course of her career Herke worked from Amsterdam, London and Kuala Lumpur.

Herke is ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. 

Chambers & Partners Global 2024 regonizes Herke as Notable Practitioner: "Herke van Hulst is available with sound legal and tactical advice. We value her deep knowledge and expertise."

Legal 500 mentions Herke as a ‘Highly talented, pragmatic’ Healthcare & Life Sciences expert and reported her as 'skilled, supportive'.

Herke has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):
- Corporate Law
- Companies
- Associations and Foundations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Director's liability

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.

'Herke van Hulst is proactive, outcome-oriented, in control of processes, a great communicator, energetic, responsive and a leader, not just a facilitator.’

Legal 500 

 

Gorillas

Advised the three former co-founders of Gorillas, Ronny Shibley, Jörg Kattner and Felix Chrobog, on the sale of their shares in Gorillas to Getir.

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MILabs

Advised the shareholders of MILabs on the sale of the company’s entire issued share capital to Rigaku Corporation, read more.

DSM Venturing

Advised DSM Venturing on the $47 million Series A funding round in innovative food company, Meatable. Read more >

VarmX

Advised the syndicate of investors on VarmX’s EUR 32 million Series B financing round financing, read more.

Oaky

Advised Oaky on $9.5M Series A financing by PeakSpan Capital, read more.

Isobionics

Advised on the sale of Isobionics to BASF, read more.

Wildstone

Advised the UK group Wildstone on the acquisition of the Spanish group of outdoor advertising Redext.

Infosys

Advised Infosys on a strategic partnership with ABN AMRO, including the acquisition of a majority-stake in Stater.

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EQT Ventures

Advised EQT Ventures on a co-lead €20m funding round for Amsterdam-based electric scooter company Dott

Lava Therapeutics

Advised a syndicate of investors led by Gilde Healthcare and Versant Ventures with additional support from US-based MRL Ventures Fund in the EUR 16 million financing round of Lava Therapeutics, read more

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NightBalance

Represented the founders, INKEF Capital, Gilde Healthcare, Thuja Capital Healthcare, Health Innovation Fund, Van Herk Ventures (sellers) in the sale of NightBalance to Royal Philips. Nightbalance is a digital health scale-up company based in the Netherlands, that has developed an innovative, easy to use device to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea and positional snoring. Read more

EQT Ventures

Advised EQT Ventures with the investment in Siilo, a secure mobile messaging service bringing medical teams together.

Tagworks Pharmaceuticals

Advised the syndicate of investors led by Gilde Healthcare and Ysios Capital and with participation from Novartis Venture Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Lightstone Ventures on the $65 million Series A financing of Tagworks Pharmaceuticals BV, the pioneer of Click-to-Release chemistry designed to deliver more effective and safer systemic therapies.

HH Global

Advised HH Global, an award winning leading independent marketing execution partner to global brands in over 40 countries employing over 850 employees, with its acquisition of PostNL Print Management, the print management arm of the Dutch postal and logistic solutions provider PostNL, to help support HH Global’s growth in the Netherlands.

A-Gas

Advised A-Gas on the acquisition of Netherlands' reclamation business BTC.

Terumo Corporation

Represented Terumo Corporation in respect of the staged transaction with Quirem Medical, in which Terumo Corporation following its initial minority interest (i)  increased its minority interest, (ii) acquired  the exclusive worldwide distribution rights and (iii) obtained a purchase option to acquire the remaining of the shares.

Breath Therapeutics

Represented Breath Therapeutics on EUR 43.5m Series A financing round by Gimv, Sofinnova Partners and Gilde Healthcare.

Sofinnova Ventures & Ysios Capital

Represented Sofinnova Ventures and Ysios Capital as lead investors in the USD 30 million Series B Financing round of BioClin Therapeutics.

Northsea Therapeutics

Advised lead investors Ysios Capital and Forbion Growth on Northsea Therapeutics' USD 80 million Series C financing round.

GenDx

Osborne Clarke  has advised the shareholders of Genome Diagnostics B.V. (GenDx) in the competitive auction process relating to the sale of GenDx to Eurobio Scientific for an amount of €135 million.

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  • +31 6 50 28 88 59
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