Jones Day, King & Spalding, Kirkland, K&L: Business of Law

Jones Day opened an Amsterdam office and hired two mergers and acquisitions partners, Marcel van de Vorst, formerly of Norton Rose LLP, and Marc Rijkaart van Cappellen, of Baker & McKenzie LLP.

Van de Vorst has a transactional and corporate advisory practice involving technology, life sciences and growth businesses. Rijkaart van Cappellen has a transactional and corporate advisory practice that includes capital market transactions, corporate governance, joint ventures, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring. He also has experience in cross border equity offerings and structuring of international deals with a focus on the U.S. and Latin America, the firm said.