TORONTO — A firm that manages money for a prominent Dutch construction family plans to invest $1 billion in Canada, led by a member of the Netherlands’ royal house, The Logic has learned. 

Reggeborgh is looking to do deals “with a focus on infrastructure, energy transition and food security,” according to a December 2025 memo prepared for Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. Finance Canada officials drafted the document ahead of a meeting with Reggeborgh executive Maurits van Oranje. The Logic obtained the memo through an access to information request.

Headquartered in the eastern city of Rijssen, Reggeborgh is the family office of the Wessels clan. Its assets include a controlling stake in VolkerWessels, a construction conglomerate that is helping to build the U.K.’s £45-billion HS2 rail line and Eindhoven’s Nieuw Bergen development. Reggeborgh’s other holdings include Larchpoint Capital, a London-headquartered private equity firm, and Tesorion, a Utrecht-based cybersecurity startup. 

Reggeborgh and van Oranje did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Champagne’s office did not directly answer questions about the meeting and discussions with the firm. Finance Canada “generally does not release information on what was expressed by stakeholders,” said spokesperson Marie-France Faucher. 

Van Oranje leads Reggeborgh’s North American investment strategy, per the departmental memo. The December meeting was set up so he could “share the family’s perspectives as a major long-term foreign investor in Canadian infrastructure and real assets,” according to the memo. 

The document suggested Champagne talk up economic measures in the Liberals’ November 2025 federal budget, including accelerated tax write-offs for capital investments and the new Major Projects Office. It also recommended that Champagne ask van Oranje for his input on “sectors and asset classes in Canada that may be of interest to private capital.” 

Reggeborgh-linked companies in Canada include Volker Stevin, the Calgary-based roadworks division of VolkerWessels. According to the federal memo, Reggeborgh also has two Canadian subsidiaries. Corporate filings show both are Ontario corporations registered in September 2023, and each lists a member of the Wessels family as its president. 

The investment firm has other Canadian connections. In April 2024, Reggeborgh participated in a €140-million funding round for Tree Energy Solutions, a Brussels-based green energy company leading a hydrogen production project in Quebec’s Mauricie region.

In addition to his role at Reggeborgh, van Oranje also sits on the board of Noord-Europees Wijnopslagbedrijf, an ethanol terminal in Amsterdam. He was previously a partner at Dutch renewal energy firm Sunrock. He is a first cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who took the throne in April 2013. 

Van Oranje’s mother, Princess Margriet was born in Ottawa while the family was in exile during World War II, although the federal government declared the hospital’s maternity ward extraterritorial so she didn’t become a British subject at birth. 

The Finance Canada memo states that Reggeborgh is also the family office of the van Oranje-Nassaus, the Dutch royal house. The firm’s own site and other public statements only identify the Wessels family.  

Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the federal government has made attracting more foreign direct investment a major priority. Last year, Canada took in $96.8 billion of international capital, much of it driven by foreign firms merging with or acquiring Canadian companies. Carney is inviting 100 business and investment leaders to Toronto in September.

Other Dutch investors have also shown interest in Canada. Executives from Bouwinvest, an Amsterdam-based real estate firm, met with officials at the Innovation, Finance, Infrastructure and Natural Resources departments last December, federal lobbying disclosures show. 

The firm is working with European institutional investors and Canadian pension funds “to pursue more housing investment in Canada,” according to an internal memo at Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada obtained via access to information request. However, the document said Bouwinvest had raised concerns about double taxation of real estate investments.