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1 September 2025

A&O Shearman Advises JDE Peet’s On EUR15.7 Billion Recommended Public Offer By Keurig Dr Pepper

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A&O Shearman

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A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength. Our clients benefit from the collective experience of teams who work with many of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, and have a history of precedent-setting innovations. Together our lawyers advise more than a third of NYSE-listed businesses, a fifth of the NASDAQ and a notable proportion of the London Stock Exchange, the Euronext, Euronext Paris and the Tokyo and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
This exciting transaction will create a global coffee champion through the complementary combination of KDP’s Keurig®, North America’s leading single-serve coffee platform...
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An A&O Shearman team, led by Amsterdam corporate partners Tim Stevens and Olivier Valk, is advising our client JDE Peet’s on the EUR15.7bn recommended public offer by Keurig Dr Pepper.

This exciting transaction will create a global coffee champion through the complementary combination of KDP’s Keurig®, North America’s leading single-serve coffee platform, with JDE Peet’s worldwide portfolio of beloved coffee brands.

We are grateful to JDE Peet’s for their trust and to all our colleagues, both in Amsterdam and in the U.S., whose dedication and expertise made this cross-border achievement possible. A true global team effort with specialist advice provided by, amongst others: in the Corporate team: Tim Stevens, Olivier Valk, Jeroen Allebrandi, Reinier de Groot, and Eleni van Nijf; in Finance: Niels de Ru, Michael Chernick, Wendy Mink, Floris Jan Hoogendoorn, and Livia Talenti; in Capital Markets: Jonathan Heeringa, Harald Halbhuber, Sophia Evenhuis, Flora van Laar, and Katya Bogdanov; in Employment: Arnold Keizer, Bob van Leent, and Mirte Miltenburg; and also Joyce Leemrijse and José Luimstra.

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A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength. Our clients benefit from the collective experience of teams who work with many of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, and have a history of precedent-setting innovations. Together our lawyers advise more than a third of NYSE-listed businesses, a fifth of the NASDAQ and a notable proportion of the London Stock Exchange, the Euronext, Euronext Paris and the Tokyo and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.

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