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Lawyers
Angelique Thiele
Angelique is part of the Financing team. Working from the Amsterdam and London offices, she assists with national and international property and project financing transactions. She also advises on the acquisition and sale of credit portfolios (commercial, ‘bad bank’) and restructuring solutions for property loans. Angelique is a highly experienced specialist in Dutch and cross-border secured financing transactions.
Angelique acts for Dutch and foreign banks and other financial institutions, (special) servicers, investors and large and medium sized companies as a legal advisor, negotiator and transaction manager on domestic and cross-border finance transactions, with an emphasis on property and project financing transactions (syndicated and clubloans, CMBS, restructurings, sell-downs, loan portfolio sales). Angelique has a PhD in Dutch, English and German banking law.
Anneloes van Uhm
Anneloes works in the Finance team. She advises lenders and borrowers in cross-border and domestic financing transactions, including project finance, acquisition finance and corporate lending. She also advises clients on (financial) restructurings and matters of insolvency law.
Anneloes previously worked for the State Advocate in tax matters. Her work involved, for example, tax collection law and attachment and enforcement law, and she litigated on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and the Tax Administration in the area of collecting tax debts.
In 2018 Anneloes completed the post-graduate Grotius specialists’ course Financing & Security cum laude. She studied at Utrecht University, where she graduated cum laude in 2011.
Annemieke Hendrikse
Annemieke (LLM UCL) heads Van Doorne's Insurance team. She works in Van Doorne's offices in Amsterdam and London.
Annemieke is an expert on insurance law and Directors & Officers liability.
Annemieke handles disputes on behalf of and between insurers. She advises on coverage and is an experienced litigator in coverage disputes. Her clients often instruct Annemieke and her team in complex and cross-border cases. She frequently represents primary and/or excess layers in (cross-border) discussions between the different layers of an insurance tower and/or different programs.
She mainly focusses on general liability, D&O liability, professional liability, fraud and cyber insurance.
Annemieke also frequently acts as monitoring counsel at the request of insurers to liaise between defence counsel of different insureds, to get the best result for all insureds in cases of (potential) conflicting interests between insureds.
In addition, insurers instruct Annemieke as defence counsel for D&O's of companies and non-profit organisations, including housing corporations and healthcare institutions, in national and international disputes.
Annemieke frequently publishes and lectures on the subject of D&O liability and insurance. She is a member of the editorial team of the online publication "VAST” (magazine for insurance and liability law, including regulatory law).
Annerie Ploumen
Annerie specializes in property and financing of this property. She assists companies with Dutch and international property transactions, financing, refinancing and project development as well as drafting all other types of property (and other) agreements. In addition, Annerie advises companies on preparing, formulating and carrying out national and international tenders. Annerie advises hospitals and universities regarding their real estate portfolio and the finance related items thereof. Furthermore she advises companies structuring and setting up property funds and preparing and drafting the related financing documents.
Ariën van Heesen
Ariën is a partner in the Real Estate team. He is a highly experienced specialist in commercial property, property (portfolio) transactions and specialist in commercial property, and project financing transactions. Ariën advises private equity and other investors, funds, finance institutions, local and regional authorities and large and mid-sized businesses on commercial property transactions, restructurings, auctions, voluntary sell-downs, bricks through shares and property loan portfolio sales.
Ariën advises on commercial property and financing transactions and advises and assists private equity firms, banks, businesses, local and regional authorities and governments on property (financing) matters. He also advises on restructuring and foreclosure scenarios.
Arnout Stroeve
Arnout primarily focuses on designing and restructuring international structures, financing and private equity transactions. He also provides advice to listed and other companies on a variety of corporate law issues.
He regularly acts as counsel to broadcasting organisations.
Arnout frequently teaches and lectures on legal subjects related to his specialty, such as the flexibilisation of corporate law, legal mergers/demergers and cross-border corporate law.
Bart van Reeken
Bart negotiates in a way which contributes to the success of relationships. He allocates much of his time to large IT and business process outsourcings which often stretch over multiple countries and jurisdictions. His work covers a broad spectrum, ranging from negotiating and drafting outsourcing agreements, software development agreements, software licences, implementation and SaaS agreements, to handling software license and compliance issues and IT-related disputes. He also has experience in setting up joint development, mutually integrated production, and joint marketing arrangements.
Bart’s primary focus is structuring effective business relations. He likes taking a holistic view and forging an inspiring cooperation in diverse teams, leading to creative approaches and solutions.
Bart has worked for more than half of the larger Netherlands based multinationals, including most of the larger Netherlands based banks and insurance companies. By teaching post-academic courses for young lawyers and performing occasional work for fintech companies and other start-ups, Bart likes to keep connected with trends and innovations that can benefit his larger clients.
Bas Pinckaers
Bas heads Van Doorne's Patents and Trade Secrets practice
His technological focus is on mechanical and electronic engineering. He advises on European patent and licensing strategy, coordinating and conducting national and European patent litigation and the most complex trade mark cases. Bas is experienced in setting up and implementing border measure programs. He has successfully represented global companies before the Courts of The Hague. He is familiar with patents covering industry standards and the interface with EU antitrust law.
Bas van Zelst
Bas van Zelst is a partner in Van Doorne’s arbitration practice. Bas has extensive experience in conducting and advising on national and international commercial arbitration and related proceedings before the regular courts. He has particular expertise in advising on, and conducting proceedings relating to, distribution agreements and a particular interest in (cross-border) seizure and enforcement proceedings. In the past, Bas was involved in (advising on) arbitration procedures under the ICC, NAI, LCIA, UNCITRAL and DIS arbitration rules.
Further to his arbitration practice, Bas holds the Chair of Dispute Resolution & Arbitration at Maastricht University. His research focuses on cross-border conflict resolution with particular emphasis on arbitration.
Berber Bosch
Berber is part of the IT team. She focuses on drafting, advising and litigating on IT related agreements.
Berber obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam and also studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She holds a master's degree from the Institute for Information Law (IViR).
She joined Van Doorne in 2017 and is admitted to the Amsterdam Bar. She also worked in the Dispute Resolution and Insurance team.
Cara Pronk
Cara has become partner in the Employment Law practice as per 1 January 2023.
Within the International Employment Law team Cara specialises in cross-border employment, collective and individual redundancies, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, flex workers and European employee representation.
Cees Kniestedt
Cees is a highly experienced authority on Property, with special interests in physical planning, real estate, environmental law, project development and construction law. Cees acts primarily for authorities and real estate professionals.
Daan Horsthuis
Daan heads Van Doorne's Funds & Investment Management practice group. He specialises in the establishment of investment funds, including private equity / venture capital funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, retail funds (UCITS and non-UCITS) and fund of funds. Daan also advises asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors on matters such as discretionary and fiduciary asset management and asset pooling, and provides regulatory advice in relation to collective and other forms of asset management.
Daan Beenders
Daan is a senior litigation partner and heads Van Doorne’s litigation team. He specializes in liability law, procedural law and mass claims. Before joining Van Doorne, Daan was a litigation partner with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. He worked for De Brauw for 20 years and was one of the lead partners within the commercial litigation and mass claims group of the firm.
Daan has represented leading corporations and multinationals in both jurisdictional and multi-jurisdictional complex commercial litigation and class actions and has advised a broad spectrum of clients on all kind of liability issues. He has been involved as lead counsel in numerous landmark litigation cases in the Netherlands.
Daan also serves as a deputy judge in the District Court of Noord-Holland and regularly lectures and publishes on liability, contract law, procedural law and mass claims.
His work has won him the ILO’s Client Choice Award for best Litigation lawyer in the Netherlands. Furthermore, Daan and his team have been ranked tier 1 in the Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers for many years and Daan is recommended there as key lawyer.
Daan ter Braak
In the notarial practice, Daan’s specialty is corporate law and more in particular designing and setting up (international) corporate structures.
Daan frequently advises boards of directors and supervisory directors operating in the financial market on the implementation of corporate governance. Daan has extensive experience in providing guidance in (management) buyouts, joint ventures, as well as setting up and financing acquisition structures.
Daan has impressive knowledge of cross-border mergers and conversions.
Daniëlle Westerhoff
Daniëlle is a specialist in the Tax Law practice. She mainly advises clients on national tax law, focussing on clients in the semi-public and public law sector, such as educational institutions, healthcare facilities and governments. Within that context, Danielle focuses on the tax-law aspects of collaborations, mergers, demergers, acquisitions and internal reorganisations. Daniëlle frequently advises clients on value-added tax, company income tax, capital transfer tax and gift tax, which often touches on the consequences for the private individuals involved in respect of income and wage tax.
Together with her public-law colleagues (attorneys as well as civil-law notaries), Daniëlle is capable of shedding light on both civil-law aspects and tax aspects, providing single, integral opinions and, if necessary, finding creative solutions while drawing on the various disciplines.
Daniëlle also provides up-to-date knowledge on real estate tax issues. In that context she regularly publishes in the construction law journal Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht.
Diederik Maessen
Diederik specialises in the development, financing, construction, and acquisition of large-scale energy and infrastructure projects. He has broad domestic and international experience advising clients on all aspects of the value chain, including M&A, large-scale projects and corporate, finance, and commercial matters. Diederik has a particular focus on emerging technologies (such as CCUS and hydrogen), as well as renewable energy, oil & gas, LNG, ports & terminals, and nuclear sectors. He forms part of Van Doorne's steering committee for energy and infrastructure matters. Diederik’s key clients include market-leading project sponsors and developers, infrastructure and energy funds, governments, and state-owned entities.
Dimitri van Hoewijk
Dimitri is part of the Corporate team and member of our Healthcare & Life Sciences team. He is an expert in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions, joint-ventures, participations and regulatory matters in the healthcare and life sciences sector.
Dimitri advises businesses, the corporate sector, (private equity) investors and healthcare providers, (international) manufacturers and distributors of medicinal products and medical devices. He focuses particularly on the healthcare and life sciences industry and has specific expertise in regulatory matters relating to (reimbursement and market access of) medicinal products, medical devices and digital health.
His combination of legal disciplines and understanding of the business needs of pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies maximizes value for his clients, from start-up or private equity owned companies, to large pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Dimitri is also part of the Technology Transactions team.This integrated and multidisciplinary team of experts gives advice to clients with regard to transactions which include distinctive technology components.
Ed van Liere
Ed has extensive experience in representing and advising clients in the area of economic law, environmental criminal law and fraud. Other lawyers and advisors often seek his strategic and tactical advice with regard to (internal) investigations.
Elisabeth Thole
Partner and Head of Privacy Team. Extensively experienced in assisting clients with complex, high risk, cross-border data related matters. The Team is also specialized in e-commerce work.
Elise Stormmesand
Elise is part of the Funds & Investment Management team and specializes in asset management.
Elise focuses on (re)structuring investment funds, including private equity funds, hedge funds and real estate funds. She also advises asset managers, pension funds and other institutional investors on matters such as discretionary and fiduciary / integrated asset management and on the rules and regulations that apply to (collective) asset management.
Estelle van Heerden
Estelle is member of the Finance team. She was admitted as a lawyer of the High Court of South Africa in 2004 and was subsequently also admitted as a notary and conveyancer in South Africa.
Estelle has experience in acting for banks and large and medium sized borrowers in different kinds of domestic and cross-border finance transactions.
Florence Verbeek
Florence specialises in national and international commercial contract law, with a focus on drafting and reviewing (cross-border) distribution, franchise and agency agreements, supply and purchase agreements and general terms and conditions. Florence also frequently conducts legal proceedings regarding commercial disputes. She furthermore advises both national and international clients on issues relating to consumer and liability law, e-commerce and international private law. Florence is a native speaker of English.
Frederike Ahlers
Frederike is part of the Criminal Defense & Investigations team. She mainly focuses on environmental criminal law, fraud cases and economic offenses.
Friso Foppes
Friso is an expert in corporate law. Friso specialises in particular in (cross-border) mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other forms of cooperation, private equity and corporate governance (accounting policies, etcetera).
He is used to working with other disciplines, and frequently acts for foreign investors, for instance in investments.
As a member of Van Doorne’s Pension team Friso regularly represents pension funds, in particular in governance issues, mergers and split-ups and group transfer payments.
Gijs Verberne
Gijs is a highly experienced and internationally recommended specialist in European and Dutch tender law, WTO law, public private partnerships (PPPs), project development and construction law, property law, privatization of government responsibilities/services, and public transportation law.
Gijs is often involved in large public-private and public-public partnerships, providing assistance in complex tendering procedures. Gijs frequently litigates in tender disputes, too.
Hanne van 't Klooster
Hanne specializes in mergers and acquisitions, inter alia, covering private equity, venture capital joint and ventures. This involves advising investors on setting up investment fund structures, management teams and entrepreneurs on various investment rounds, from early-stage through Series C/D, MBOs and exits.
Furthermore she has worked extensively with international corporations who wanted to add the Netherlands to their geographical footprint and advised foreign investors entering the Dutch market.
Her experience also includes corporate law generally and corporate litigation.
She has a strong focus on the media and technology sector.
Harm-Paul Plas
Finance & RestructuringInvestment Funds
Hugo Reumkens
Hugo Reumkens is an authoritative figure in corporate law, with a specialized focus on strategic M&A transactions, joint ventures, and corporate governance. He is particularly adept at handling high-stakes, extraordinary events crucial to a company's existence or future. His proficiency in these critical areas of corporate law ensures that clients receive expert guidance underpinned by strategic acumen.
Clients engaging Hugo for strategic M&A, joint ventures and advice on corporate governance can expect achievable and effective solutions. His leadership of Van Doorne's corporate governance practice and his extensive experience in high-impact transactions equip him to guide companies through their most crucial moments with strategic foresight and legal precision and accuracy.
Clients
Hugo’s client roster reflects his ability to navigate complex, multidisciplinary transactions and governance issues across various sectors. His ability to manage key accounts, like B&S Group and Port of Rotterdam, and his involvement in significant projects exemplify his commitment to providing timely and effective legal solutions in a fast-paced business environment.
Clients and peers describe Hugo as "outstanding," "experienced," and "sophisticated," valuing his approachable demeanor for effective collaboration. His expertise in managing complex transactions and governance issues is highly regarded, with a reputation for swift and accurate advice.
Ingeborg Wind-Middel
Ingeborg is highly specialised in public law and has built a solid track record in the fields of general administrative law, environmental law, nature & environment, energy & sustainability and real estate & retail. With her team, she advises on all public law aspects of spatial planning, sustainability (wind and solar, policy), property and area development, land policy, circularity, retail planning, area and species protection, compensation for loss resulting from planning decisions and other administrative acts, subsidies, etc.
Her team advises both public authorities (provinces, municipalities, water boards and other public legal entities) and companies (such as developers, investors, institutions). Ingeborg understands the political playing field like no other and easily finds her way in decision-making processes and administrative organisations.
Ingeborg always strives for practical, workable, efficient and long-term solutions. But she certainly does not shy away from the legal content. She specializes in legal project management. In addition, she regularly acts for clients at the administrative courts, including the Administrative Law Division of the Council of State (de Afdeling Bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State) and the Board of Appeal for the Business Community (het College van beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven).
Ingeborg lectures and publishes regularly.
Jan Roeland
Jan is a highly experienced, internationally recommended tax specialist. He furnishes advice on tax matters in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group, including with regard to real estate, internal reorganizations, business successions, and related transactions and projects as well as traditional client counselling.
Together with his civil-law, corporate and real estate colleagues, Jan provides counsel on the tax questions arising in these areas. He is an expert at combining corporate, income, wage, transfer and turnover tax aspects into a single, comprehensive tax and civil-law opinion.
Jan van der Grinten
Jan has been a lawyer in government practice for over 25 years. He is a true administrative law litigator. Jan assists governments, companies and institutions in administrative law cases on various subjects. A passionate lawyer who knows how to make connections between different areas of law, is authoritative and very experienced.
Jan's practice is built on professional quality, strategic insight and personal attention to all his clients. Jan has a particular focus on:
- Supervision and enforcement
- Subsidy law
- Public order law
- Public Information (Wob and Woo)
- Municipal law
- Government liability
Jan enjoys litigation on the cutting edge but with respect for the opponent and without unnecessary escalation of the dispute.
In addition to being a lawyer, Jan teaches government liability at Leiden University. He writes in legal journals and is one of the authors of “Tekst en Commentaar Wet open overheid” (text and commentary on the Open Government Act). Jan was for many years chairman of the Objections Committee of the municipality of Leiden and deputy judge in the District Court of Gelderland. He is a member of the Legal Status Advisory Committee of the Dutch Bar Association.
Jan Leliveld
Jan is part of the Criminal Defense & Investigations and Compliance team. He focuses on fraud cases, environmental criminal law, economic offences, business & human rights, international investigations (ECHR, ICC) and supervisory regulations.
He represents companies and their management in enforcement investigations. He has extensive experience in representing managers, public figures and professionals in sensitive criminal and disciplinary matters. He is used to operate discretely under turbulent circumstances.
Jasper Leedekerken
Jasper is a member of Van Doorne’s management board and heads the dispute resolution practice group. He specializes in complex commercial and corporate litigation. In legal proceedings, he represents a range of both national and international clients with leading businesses. His practice involves a broad range of civil liability issues, including disputes about various types of contracts, tort litigation, mass damages, and securities litigation.
In addition, Jasper successfully completed (cum laude) the Corporate Litigation postgraduate programme at Grotius Academy. He is a member of the Dutch Association for Civil Procedure Law and the Corporate Litigation Association as well, and is also a frequent guest lecturer for continuing education programmes for lawyers.
Jeanette Ozinga
Jeanette (lawyer, adviser) is an expert on environmental law matters and advises large industrial and investment companies on environmental law matters, including in the areas of waste and energy transition since 1991. Jeanette has a special focus on waste management, circular economy, and energy transition, areas which will play a significant role in the practice going forward.
Jelmer Baukema
Jelmer has become partner in the finance and restructuring practice at Van Doorne as per 1 January 2023. He focuses on advising clients - companies, creditors, investors and financial institutions - on insolvency law and (financial) restructuring both in and outside of insolvency proceedings as well as advising investors, lenders and intermediary platforms on alternative financing and funding methods such as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, crowdfunding, debt-based securities and invoice financing.
Jelmer regularly publishes on matters related to its expertise in legal literature.
Joost Volkers
Joost has become partner at Van Doorne as per 1 January 2023.
Joost is specialised in insolvency law, commercial contracts, liability issues, litigation and international private law. He also has broad experience in the finance practice. He focuses on advising on and litigating with respect to loan and security documents, insolvency law and various commercial contracts. He also drafts and reviews commercial contracts for national and international clients. In addition, Joost advises on liability issues and any international private law aspects thereof.
Jordie Bakker
Jordie Bakker (attorney at law), is a partner of the Real Estate team. He specializes in advising both national and international clients on commercial real estate developments, civil construction law, tenancy law and property transactions. In addition, he has a vast experience in preparing and negotiating turn-key sale and development agreements.
Léone Klapwijk
Léone's principal areas of practice are energy regulatory law (comprising of electricity, natural gas, heat and hydrogen), energy transactions, large-scale energy projects, energy contracts and energy (regulatory) litigation.
Léone represents a wide spectrum of participants in the energy markets. Her clients include large (heat) supply and production companies in the regulated markets, companies in the chemical and industrial sectors, transmission and distribution system operators. She has extensive experience in solving and handling issues in the field of regulated and non-regulated (CO2, fuels, hydrogen) utilities. Léone is at her best when (together with the client team working on multidisciplinary, complex energy projects.
In addition, Léone is (co-)author of several legal journal publications on various energy law topics and lecturer on electricity and gas regulation at the Postgraduate course 'Climate change and energy transition' at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.
Lisette Bieleveld
Lisette is head of Van Doorne’s Commercial team. She advises and litigates on behalf of domestic and international companies and organisations with regard to all commercial contracts, such as (international) agency, franchise and distribution contracts, (international) sale/purchase agreements (including general conditions, sourcing and framework agreements), services agreements, co-operation agreements and confidentiality agreements. She has specific expertise in commercial litigation (both before Dutch Courts as well as in (international) arbitration), consumer law, liability law and related matters of an international private law nature.
She also advises and litigates in the areas of e-commerce and IT, including outsourcing, software and hardware sales and supply of software licensing and on failed IT projects.
Lisette specialises in contract and liability law (including food and health safety related issues), civil procedural law, international private law and ICT.
Louis Jonker
Louis Jonker is a leading expert in law and technology. Louis has over 20 years of experience in IT (sourcing) projects, especially in the (semi-)public sector. This includes advising clients during IT procurement processes and drafting and reviewing contract documentation. But also assisting clients during contract negotiations and in contentious matters.
Louis has specific expertise in addressing legal issues of and setting up strategic partnerships for digitalisation in regulated markets, ranging from traditional IT implementation projects to innovative customer-facing solutions and data sharing schemes. Furthermore, Louis focuses on policies and projects concerning the responsible use and management of technology (AI, public cloud, cyber etc.), regarding contracts as well as governance and compliance issues.
Maarten Appels
Maarten is an experienced specialist in corporate law. He has a wealth of experience with national and international mergers and acquisitions, acting for investment companies, banks and other undertakings. Maarten also advises corporate governance, joint venture structures and reorganizations.
Maarten Tinnemans
Maarten is an expert in real estate law. He has a strong track record of real estate transactions, transfer of real estate companies, property development, security rights and real estate aspects of corporate transactions and financing.
Maarten advises institutional and private equity investors, developers, governments and financial institutions on a broad range of real estate related matters. He is known as an innovative thinker with a strong business acumen.
Before joining Van Doorne, Maarten spent fifteen years in real estate and M&A with two other major law firms. He was based in Amsterdam and in London. Maarten also gaine
Marjolijn Lips
Marjolijn is a seasoned employment law specialist and trusted advisor for both domestic and international companies. She advises and litigates with a focus on corporate employment law, employee participation and consultation requirements, boardroom advice, governance and business conduct (e.g., whistleblowers/complaints procedures), restructuring and harmonization of employment terms. Marjolijn co-heads the Employment & Pension practice group.
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Mark Moolhuizen
Mark is a very experienced expert in the area of private construction law and property law. He specifically focuses on complex projects, in which authorities as well as private parties are involved: public-private partnership. Mark is engaged in the construction industry, the infrastructure sector, the energy sector, the healthcare sector, the project development sector and the property sector.
He specialises in drafting and negotiating (complex) construction law contracts concerning all stages of the building process, including design, construction, maintenance and/or management, as well as funding if applicable. He has drafted (integrated) contracts and has led negotiations for hospitals and other non-residential building works, (onshore and offshore) infrastructure projects and large-scale residential construction.
In the area of property law he specialises in (international) property transactions and project development and related contracts. In that context he has led negotiations and has drafted contracts in very complex and extensive property transactions and property developments.
Mark advises project developers, construction companies, investors, housing associations and other professional property companies and construction companies. Mark also advises healthcare institutions and educational institutions, retailers and other businesses on property issues and construction issues.
Maurits Terlouw
Maurits is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. He provides legal guidance and advice to parties who are involved in the healthcare sector and the pharma sector and has specific expertise in European and competition law.
Maurits studied Law at Utrecht University, where he also completed his Master's in Law & Economics.
During his studies, Maurits worked for a number of municipalities and gained experience in the legal profession and in the banking sector. Before joining Van Doorne, he worked for some time as a legal advisor, assisting local and regional authorities in matters of European law.
Meltem Koning-Gungormez
Meltem has extensive sell-side and buy-side experience in mid-market mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs, exits, investments, corporate venturing transactions and strategic cooperations. Meltem’s clients include both foreign and Dutch private equity and venture capital investors as well as corporates, financial institutions and entrepreneurs in the technology, media-, telecom and retail sectors. Most of her work has a significant cross-border connection, building on her broad international network and extensive experience at international top tier firms both in Amsterdam and New York.
Meltem is part of the Technology Transactions Team of Van Doorne, where she consolidates her PE/VC practice and technology M&A expertise, combining the ‘best in class’ privacy, IP, IT and Fintech practice groups of Van Doorne, into a seamless ‘Tech M&A’ proposition that is unique in the Dutch M&A market.
Neyah van der Aa
Neyah specialises in criminal defense and investigations, with a particular focus on financial economic crime, anti-money laundering legislation, international sanctions regulations and fraud. Neyah helps companies and boards prevent violations of laws and regulations, for instance by implementing compliance measures. Neyah also assists companies and boards in the event of a potential breach of laws and regulations, including by conducting investigations, taking remedial action and preparing for potential government enforcement. Neyah has acted as counsel in some of the most high-profile enforcement cases in the Netherlands and has broad experience in defending companies that are the subject of complex national and international investigations, both by criminal investigative and prosecutorial agencies (e.g. the FIOD and the Dutch Public Prosecution Office) and by administrative enforcement agencies (e.g. the AFM and DNB). Neyah often cooperates closely with other internal and external experts, such as internal auditors and forensic accountants. Neyah regularly publishes and gives lectures on compliance, investigations and international sanctions.
Nick Suurmond
Nick is a member of our Corporate Law team and deals with various matters relating to corporate law in the broadest sense. He is also a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team and provides counsel to parties operating in the healthcare & life sciences industry.
Nicole Soliana
Nicole is a member of the Real Estate team. She specialises in contract law and liability law, with a focus on real estate/project development and government authorities. Her particular area of expertise is private law in relation to the public sector. She also regularly advises and litigates in matters relating to environmental law, tenancy law and construction law.
Nicole mainly assists property developers, real estate investors, contractors and governmental authorities, particularly in relation to agreements and disputes regarding complex real estate-related topics.
Niels van Boekel
Niels is part of the Employment Law team. He advises Dutch clients and international clients on various employment-law issues. He focuses particularly on issues at the interface of employment law and business law, including mergers and acquisitions, participative decision-making and the position of directors under the articles of association.
Nina Korstenbroek
Nina is part of the European & Competition Law team. She focuses on various issues relating to cartel prohibition, abuse of dominant positions and concentration notifications. Nina is also part of the team of the State advocate in tax matters and represents the Tax and Customs Administration in legal proceedings.
Nina read law at the University of Amsterdam and l’Université Pierre Mendès France in Grenoble. She obtained a master’s degree in International and European Law (European Competition Law track) from the University of Amsterdam.
Onno Boerstra, Boerstra Management Advisory
Onno specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and buyouts. Several independent, international surveys have highly recommended Onno in these areas. Onno represents various Dutch and foreign companies, private equity funds and other investors, mainly in cross-border transactions. Over the years, Onno has developed a leading niche practice in advising management teams in sponsored buy-outs.
Özer Zivali
Özer is a member of the Privacy Team and is specialized in privacy, data protection, data technologies and (cyber) security. He has extensive experience in effectively assisting multinationals in complex, high risk, and cross-border data related matters. This includes high impact data breaches, the development and implementation of innovative data technologies, enforcement by authorities and complex data sharing structures, and strategic advice on translating the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the business needs of clients.
Özer has also extensive experience in advising companies on other data protection related matters, such as negotiating data processing or other data protection related agreements, loyalty programs, profiling, compliance projects for customer and employee data, apps, web shops, and international transfers of personal data, including Binding Corporate Rules. Özer also has experience in IT contracting and outsourcing.
Pieter de Jong Schouwenburg
Pieter is a dispute resolution specialist. With broad litigation experience, including in alternative dispute resolution (such as international arbitration), Pieter feels quite at home in court and other proceedings. Pieter has a wide legal background, with specialized knowledge concerning (professional) liability, insurance, contracts, torts and (intellectual) property rights.
Pieter van Regteren Altena
Pieter specializes in liability and insurance law, concentrating on professional liability, product liability, corporate liability and related insurance aspects, as well as on non-insured inter-company liability. Pieter is particularly interested in liability for medical professionals, including medical disciplinary law.
Ralph Ubels
Ralph specializes in financial liability law. Ralph acts for banks, insurers, accounting firms and other financial service providers. His focus is on complex disputes involving duty of care, financial supervision law, general contract and liability law. Before joining Van Doorne as a partner in late 2023, Ralph was a partner in the Financial Litigation department of NautaDutilh.
Ralph has represented several Dutch (major) banks in complex legal disputes. Cases on internal fraud, prospectus liability, financing discussions, ESG-related litigation, international consumer law, anti money laundering legislation, and numerous other topics are among Ralph's expertise. Clients praise Ralph for his effective handling of cases and his high success rate.
Ralph regularly gives presentations and lectures on duty of care and related topics and publishes with some regularity on the areas of law in which he specializes.
Remco Bäcker
Remco, attorney at law, is a member of the real estate practice group of Van Doorne N.V. He specialises in environmental and spatial planning law, general administrative procedure law, construction law, and the overlapping area between public/private law and rental law. He advises project developers, investors, banks, corporates, contractors and various government authorities.
Remco also assists companies in the food industry and other regulated markets.
Rob de Win
Rob is a highly experienced, internationally recommended tax specialist. He furnishes advice on tax matters in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group, including with regard to management participation schemes, internal reorganizations, business successions, and real estate and related transactions and projects. Rob specifically focuses on turnover taxes. Rob gained a wealth of experience in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) practice group, having advised public authorities, schools and health care institutions on real estate issues and infrastructure projects, as well as on structuring educational and health care cooperative ventures. Together with his civil-law, corporate and real estate colleagues, Rob provides counsel on the tax questions arising in these areas. He is an expert at combining corporate, income, wage, transfer and turnover tax aspects into a single, comprehensive tax and civil-law opinion.
Roel Botter
Roel has extensive experience in financial transactions. His experience includes acquisition finance, project finance, financial restructuring, structured finance, capital market transactions (debt and equity), asset-backed finance and regulatory matters.
In several independent, international surveys, Roel has been recommended as a banking and finance expert. He frequently writes about these subjects.
Rogier Schellaars
Rogier specialises in international commercial arbitration. He is co-practice head at Van Doorne.
Rogier acts as lead counsel, expert and arbitrator on M&A, joint-venture and investment claims (Dutch and foreign seated). Rogier also works as co-counsel. He is particularly active in the Energy, Life Sciences and Technology sectors.
Ruud de Kleijn
Ruud is part of the IT-team at Van Doorne. He advises and litigates on IT-contracts, outsourcings and complex issues where IT is involved.
Before joining the Bar in 2012, Ruud participated in a two-year management traineeship and worked as a management consultant. Because of this experience, Ruud easily understands the clients' business needs and acknowledges that legal advice should be practically applicable while being aligned with strategic objectives.
Ruud worked for large and semi-large companies and (financial) institutions. He has a broad background and interests, for the matter as well as the people involved.
In 2020 Ruud completed the post-academic Grotius IT-law education with a cum laude degree.
Sarah Beeston
Sarah Beeston heads the European & Competition team of Van Doorne. She advises clients and represents their interests in commercial relations and before competition authorities and courts, including in competition-related damages claims. Sarah has experience in most industries from energy and transport to consumer goods and financial services. She is also active in semi-public sectors including education, healthcare and life sciences. Sarah is board member of the Association for Women and Competition.
Sarah is innovative and seeks solutions. She obtained the first commitment decision and first settlement decision taken by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets. On behalf of a client, she has also worked with the ACM on criteria for leniency in non-horizontal cases. She has successfully negotiated the termination of investigations without fines or formal commitments and settled cases involving international damages claims.
Saskia Laseur
Saskia has worked as a civil-law notary for nearly 20 years, having gained her notarial expertise in The Hague. The semi-public sector is her specialization. Saskia believes that civil-law notaries need to keep up with the times, by being a proactive legal advisor, in addition to providing traditional notarial services. She adheres to this approach both inside and outside the profession – for instance, she was a member of the Royal Netherlands Notarial Organisation’s national board for three years.
Saskia acts as a civil-law notary and consultant for various governmental bodies, non-profit institutes and umbrella organizations. She regularly speaks at conventions, seminars and meetings. Governance and long‑term collaboration in the public sector, as well as the duties and powers of managing and supervisory directors, are frequent themes for her.
Siego Boslooper
Siego is an experienced specialist in corporate law and is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Within this discipline she focuses on providing advice and legal assistance in relation to national and international restructuring projects, private equity, joint venture structures, mergers, demergers and corporate governance.
She combines her experience of corporate transactions and corporate governance with specific knowledge of and experience in the healthcare & life sciences sector. As a member of both Van Doorne’s civil law notarial team and the Healthcare & Life Sciences team, she is involved in corporate healthcare & life sciences transactions, advising on joint ventures and mergers and demergers in the sector. She also advises clients in the sector on matters of corporate governance.
Siego obtained her postgraduate degree in Corporate and Business Law at Grotius Academy and is a member of the Royal Dutch Association of Civil-law Notaries.
Sijbren Kuiper
Sijbren is pension law specialist. He represents a large number of pension funds and pension service providers. He also advises Dutch and foreign companies on pension matters. Sijbren has extensive experience in the field of pension asset transfers, liquidations of pension funds, outsourcing, changes and de-risking of pension schemes, works councils aspects of pensions, exemption of sector wide pension funds, regulatory pension issues. He also litigates on pension matters (including the liability of pension providers).
Publications
Sijbren is co-author of a commentary on the Dutch Pension act, editor of PensioenJurisprudentie and author of the book "Nederland Pensioenland".
Key Sectors
Pension sector / Pension funds
Simone Hoogeveen
Simone is partner at Van Doorne and has a wealth of experience with Litigation and Insurance law. Simone specialises in the liability of accountants and tax consultants. She acts for accountants (organisations) who are or might be held liable in disciplinary or civil law proceedings. She is also well-versed in counselling companies or company directors in proceedings filed by investors. Following her law study Simon obtained a degree in economics
Sjoerd Stokmans
Sjoerd specializes in Dutch and international tax law applied i.a. to reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions (both for corporates, including private equity, and management), international tax structuring, debt restructuring and acquisition financing, share/bond issues, real estate investments and partnerships.
Sjoerd Kamerbeek
As corporate law specialist, Sjoerd advises and litigates for internationally renowned clients on M&A, warranty & indemnity (insurances), investment(-losses) and more generally commercial and corporate disputes. Sjoerd is specifically focussed on disputes between board members, shareholders', and other key stakeholders. In doing so, he frequently acts before the Enterprise Chamber of the Court of Amsterdam. He acts for the largest international (hedge) funds on their shareholder activist campaigns in the Netherlands. Finally, he assists with strategic M&A in connection with takeover and shareholder disputes.
Sjoerd frequently publishes articles on various corporate topics. Further, Sjoerd is regularly a guest lecturer on social entrepreneurship at Utrecht University. He is also a co-founder of and member of the advisory board to the Utrecht University Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Stefan van Rossum
Stefan is a seasoned finance and restructuring lawyer and head of our restructuring and insolvency practice. His work ranges from corporate lending, property finance and restructurings. His experience and training as a finance lawyer provides him with a profound understanding of the financial drivers of restructurings and the ability to prepare and negotiate the relevant documentation himself. That skillset sets him apart from insolvency lawyers that are trained as insolvency practitioners. His practice ranges from structuring and drafting finance documents and negotiating and documenting financial restructurings.
Stefan’s pragmatic and solution driven approach has gained him a loyal client base ranging from the major Dutch banks, several leading international banks and some of the world’s largest distressed debt investors.
Stefan regularly publishes in the field of finance and restructuring and sits of the editorial board of HERO, an only legal journal focusing on restructuring and debt revovery.
Steffen Alleman
Steffen is partner in Van Doorne’s Corporate / M&A team and an expert in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and buy-out transactions and management participations. Steffen is furthermore specialized in the field of corporate real estate M&A, providing expert counsel on commercial property (portfolio) transactions structured through share transactions of real estate entities and/or controlled auction sale processes.
Steffen advises Dutch and foreign companies, private equity funds and other investors, real estate investors as well as management teams in international and national transactions, mainly with deal values in the mid-market segment.
Steven Sterk
Steven specialises in employment law. In particular, he focuses on statutory directors and their dismissal, employee participation and employment conditions.
In cooperation with Annemieke Hendrikse, who is a partner at Van Doorne and specialised in directors' and officers' liability, Steven developed the 'Directors' check', informing directors about their employment law and liability position. At no cost, Steven and Annemieke make directors aware of their particular situations and responsibilities and answer their questions, using the Directors' check.
Vanessa Liem
Vanessa is part of the Criminal Defense, Investigations & Business Conduct Team. She focuses on criminal and regulatory enforcement, investigations and business conduct.
Victor Gielen
Victor is part of the Employment team. He advises Dutch and international clients on various topics relating to employment law.
Victor van Ahee
Victor is an expert on regulatory issues relating to energy and industry. With a broad expertise on the regulation of activities, products and substances he assists companies in the energy-, chemical-, and manufacturing industries through advise and representation in front of the administrative courts.
Following the energy transition, companies are faced with increasingly complex (EU) regulation where legal and practical advice is required. As part of the Energy, Industry & Renewables-team Victor focusses on the energy and environmental regulatory issues of industrial companies.
Victor is also recognized by Legal 500 as a 'rising star' in the food & beverages industry for his legal expertise on food and product regulation and environmental law.
Victor assist companies on such issues with advice and assistance and if necessary litigates in front of the administrative courts. In view of the increasing role of EU law, Victor completed a LLM at King's College in London on European Union Law.
Victor has over a decade experience in all aspects of energy and environmental law and has assisted a wide range of (large) companies, both advising and litigating with the Administrative chamber of the Council of State. Victor has also assisted with some of the largest M&A transactions in the industry from an energy and/or environmental perspective.
Next to being counsel at Van Doorne, Victor is also (deputy) chairman of the objections committee of the Municipality of Rotterdam in the environmental chamber.
Walter Hendriksen
Walter Hendriksen specialises in complex issues involving director’s and officer’s liability, professional liability, general liability, insurance law, commercial litigation, fraud and white-collar crime. Walter’s clients are typically professional services organizations (especially lawyers, civil-law notaries, accountants and tax consultants).
Walter regularly gives lectures and publishes papers on professional liability of lawyers and other legal practitioners.
For many years Walter has lead the Litigation and Insurance group, which handles a wide range of sophisticated liability and insurance matters.
Walter was President of the Netherlands Bar Association from 1 July 2013 until 1 January 2016.
From 1999 to 2006, Walter served as the acting President of the Amsterdam Bar Association and a member of its Supervisory Board. Walter was a member of the editorial board for the disciplinary law section of the Dutch magazine "Advocatenblad" (Lawyer’s Journal). Furthermore, Walter has a number of external functions.
A graduate of Utrecht University, Walter invariably appears on the ‘recommended lists’ of such leading directories as Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.
Willem van der Ven
Willem is part of the Commercial team and specialise in contract law in the broad sense. Willem focuses on litigation and advises on various agreements, including distribution agreements, franchise agreements, agency agreements, joint venture agreements, purchase agreements and sales agreements. Furthermore, Willem has conduct of matters relating to consumer law and liability law.
Willemien Bischot
Willemien heads Van Doorne’s Healthcare & and Life Sciences practice. Willemien advises healthcare providers, private investment companies and related community interest companies on such issues as mergers and joint ventures, funding and financing, corporate governance, contractual relationships with healthcare insurers, municipalities and grant providers, disputes, employee relations, restructuring and recovery. She also assists clients in raising private capital.