Mrs Marry de Gaay Fortman > Houthoff > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Houthoff Offices
GUSTAV MAHLERPLEIN 50
1082 MA AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Mrs Marry de Gaay Fortman
Position
Marry is a lawyer corporate governance and an expert in the field of governance and regulation. She is involved in research and regulatory matters and specialises in public economic law and corporate governance for large companies and public and semi-public institutions. She is also considered a trusted boardroom advisor, focusing on the governance dynamics between executive boards and supervisory boards, shareholders, and other stakeholders.
Marry is a member of a multidisciplinary team that works at the intersection of corporate governance, regulatory and corporate litigation and that carries out governance stress tests that lead to recommendations for the improvement and strengthening of the governance within companies. Read more about the governance stress test.
Marry combines her legal work with non-executive director roles, including as a supervisory director for De Nederlandsche Bank. Marry is also chair of theatre production company Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and board member of the Dutch Lawyer’s Association and has previously served as a member of the supervisory board director for KLM, Royal HaskoningDHV, GVB Amsterdam and the health insurer VGZ.
Marry also lectures on boardroom dynamics at the Governance University, is co-author of a chapter on the Dutch manual Handboek Corporate Governance. She also organises round table meetings for supervisory directors. Marry is a member of Houthoff’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Languages
Dutch, English
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Environment and planning
The environment and planning cohort at Houthoff has a strong reputation for its capabilities handling a broad scope of high-end advisory and litigious work. The team’s client portfolio spans industries ranging from the chemical, waste processing and energy, including renewables, sector to real estate. Examples of its high-value, and often cross-jurisdictional work includes advice on large-scale redevelopment projects and zoning matters on the planning side, and on climate action plans on the environmental side. Co-lead of the public law team Marry de Gaay Fortman supports team head Marloes Brans, whose broad expertise includes particularly issues surrounding climate risk and sustainability. Brans took over from former team lead Jan Frans de Groot, who departed in January 2023 to a position in The Dutch Council of State. Zoning and spatial planning specialist counsel and former practice head at CMS, Luurt Wildeboer bolstered the team in September 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Environment and planning
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
Firm Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Energy
- EU and competition
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance and PFI
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Fintech