AKD

Transport & Trade

Partner

Sebastiaan Moolenaar is a lawyer and partner at AKD who specialises in international commercial matters. Sebastiaan advises and litigates on commercial contracts throughout the entire supply chain. He regularly acts in cross-border disputes involving cargo ownership, attachments and security rights, and the enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitration awards.

Sebastiaan's clients are international entities with a cross-border distribution or agency network. He also supports commodities traders and foreign companies that want to sell goods or services in Europe from a base in the Netherlands.

He also helps global companies in the event of a supply chain disruption caused, for example, by the intervention of private parties (creditors, financiers and logistics service providers), or government authorities (through export controls, trade sanctions and customs enforcement).

Sebastiaan's clients appreciate his pragmatic approach. They also value his knowledge of the legal and operational aspects of the international value chain.

International trade requires insight into international developments which affect business as well as specific sector expertise and specialised and integrated services. Given today's cross-border trade flows companies are, in fact, having to deal with a broad spectrum of legal issues, such as contract management, logistical services, trade restrictions, payment structures and dispute settlement.

Thanks to his thorough knowledge of all these aspects Sebastiaan is able to help his clients with their activities throughout the entire value chain. Sebastiaan negotiates for businesses during the process of drawing up contracts while keeping a constant eye on the commercial relationships and interests. He also assists companies when they want to terminate continuing performance agreements and he resolves trade disputes through litigation or arbitration.

Sebastiaan is Deputy Director of Commissions of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), and has chaired the UIA’s Private International Law Commission from 2007 through 2011.

Sebastiaan obtained his master of laws degree at Utrecht University in 1997, after which he followed the LL.M. programme in International Business Law at King's College London, which he completed successfully in August 1998.