AKD has announced the appointment of five new partners in its Dutch and Luxembourg offices. Managing partner Erwin Rademakers: "We are immensely proud to have witnessed the strong growth of these new partners over the past few years.

Their proven track records show that they have developed a contemporary and successful way to serve clients. These appointments will add valuable expertise to our partner team and further enhance our Benelux footprint."

Bas Collard specialises in construction and real estate law. He acts for landlords as well as tenants of any imaginable type of commercial premises and for tenants of housing estates. Bas also assists stakeholders with transactions selling and purchasing real estate, and with project development and the construction of real estate projects.

Nadine Groeneveld is a lawyer admitted to practise before the Dutch Supreme Court. Her practice spans a wide range of cases, including contract and liability law, expropriation law, transport law and procedural law. Also litigating before the District Court and the Court of Appeal, she frequently handles class action suits or test cases. Nadine has been an endowed professor of appellate law at Tilburg University since September 2022, in which role she conducts research into appellate law and appellate procedural law and teaches Advanced civil procedural law to master's students.

Jeffrey Kleywegt specialises mainly on advising and litigating on general corporate law, international private law and general contract law. He is also closely involved in various (cross-border) collective redress cases.

Jamaal Mohuddy specialises in environmental law and, more specifically spatial planning. He also focuses on government liability where it interfaces with environmental law. Jamaal has considerable experience with advising and representing both public authorities and businesses in legal proceedings before both the administrative and the civil courts

Arnaud Barchman Wuytiers van Vliet advises multinational clients, including banks, private equity houses, public and private companies on all types of financing transactions, including secured lending, securitisations, high yield debt issuances, securities laws, financial regulatory and listing related matters.

June 1, 2023