Chicago-based investment bank William Blair & Co. LLC hired Maarten Meurs as a managing director.

Meurs was previously with ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam, where he was executive director of corporate finance leading M&A transactions. Meurs joins William Blair's financial sponsors group to help with the company's expansion in the Benelux region in Europe, which is made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Over the past five years, William Blair has completed 30 advisory deals worth a total of over €6.4 billion in the Benelux region.