Bestuur – Wintertaling

Stef Hinfelaar

Roos Gelaudie — Sun, 07 Oct 2001 11:15:50 +0000

Stef

Hinfelaar

Chief Financial Officer

Stef has been CFO since 2001. He develops strategic plans to improve financial performance and identify the company's future financial needs. Stef is known for creating an environment where entrepreneurial initiatives thrive and where success is defined by teamwork.

Stef has extensive experience in strategy, finance and implementation. He knows how to mobilize people in a complex change process, focusing on promoting ownership, reducing complexity and employee development.

Work experience/specialties

Stef has served as CFO at many companies, both at an online pharmacy within a health app, and at an AI-driven company focused on turbine engine inspection.
Stef joined Wintertaling as CFO and board member effective July 2024.
Stef is Treasurer of both the Rivierenland Triathlon Foundation, and the Consent Foundation.
Stef is a member of Rabobank West Betuwe Member Council and member of Rabobank Gelderland South Sustainable Business Advisory Council.
Stef speaks English, French and German.

Expertise

Stef has experience in the areas of M&A, Growth, Rationalising , Process and System changes, Valuation, Financing & Fundraising, Building Teams, Strategy and Execution. From start-ups to companies with a client reach of 600 million, both nationally and internationally.
Stef has experience as CEO, CFO and COO at companies with 0-1000+ employees.
Stef started in (international) marketing positions in Belgium, the Netherlands and France (DANONE). He made a transition to general management (MD). He then shifted to entrepreneurship (MBO Vitae). Currently he performs a mix of activities with a focus on Finance (CFO roles) and Entrepreneurship.

Education

Stef completed a master's degree in Finance and a master's degree in Business Valuation at TIAS Business School in Tilburg.

SPECIALISM | CORPORATE M&A

Meet the team

Welcome to the heart of our strategic growth and business development – our Corporate M&A Team at Wintertaling. Here, we bring together the power of strategic acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships under the leadership of some of the most experienced professionals in the industry.

Tim Carapiet-Petit

Roos Gelaudie — Thu, 01 Jan 1920 14:25:57 +0000

Tim

Carapiet-Petit

Lawyer | Partner

Tim advises on domestic and international acquisition transactions, setting up joint ventures and other collaborative projects, drafting commercial contracts and (re)financing transactions.

In addition, Tim set up and expanded the start-up practice. He has extensive experience in setting up startups, startup financing, employee participation and other legal challenges facing startup and venture investors. In this, Tim combines his interests in law and technological and social developments.

His clients are founders of startups, buying and selling business owners, (in)formal investors and venture capitalists, Dutch and international manufacturing companies, distributors and retailers and (financial) service providers, international law firms and financiers.

Work experience/specialties

Previously, Tim worked at Boekel de Nerée (now Dentons) in the Corporate/M&A, Corporate Litigation and Real Estate Transactions and Project Development practices.
Tim regularly gives (guest) lectures at Nyenrode University, Vrije Universtiteit Amsterdam, TIO University of Applied Sciences and various startup/scaleup events such as Amsterdam Capital House and Go-NH, among others.

Areas of law

Corporate law

Expertise

Corporate M&A
Startup, Scale-up and Venture Capital
Structuring & Financing
Corporate Governance
Agency and Distribution
Directors' liability

Education

Tim studied Dutch and European law at Maastricht University (2006).
Tim participated in an exchange program with University of Aberdeen (2005).

Track Record

Marein Smits

Roos Gelaudie — Mon, 01 Jan 1900 13:56:43 +0000

Marein

Smits

CEO | Lawyer | Partner

Marein Smits has been practising corporate law since 1997 and has extensive experience in M&A transactions (acquisitions, participations and refinancings), private equity transactions, cross-border and Dutch joint ventures, large family businesses in the Netherlands and their issues with regard to continuity, succession and shareholder disputes.

Her clients are to be found in industrial and business services, food and non-food retail, construction, healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry.

Marein has been a partner at Wintertaling since 2012.

Work experience/specialties

Marein was a partner in Corporate M&A at Boekel de Nerée (now Dentons) until 2011.
Marein is a core professor of Law in the Business Valuation program at Nyenrode Business University.
Marein is fluent in English and French.
At the Brookz Fusie en Overname Awards 2024, Marein was named Acquisition Lawyer of the Year.

Areas of law

Corporate law

Expertise

Corporate M&A
Partnerships
Structuring & Financing
Corporate Governance
Family businesses
Real estate transactions

Education

Marein studied Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam (1996) and philosophy at Leiden University (1992).