Six Advocaten

The firm: SIX Advocaten is a niche boutique law firm primarily focusing on real estate. Clients include real estate professionals and local government authorities.

The firm was launched in 2008 by a group of lawyers who combine expertise from leading international law firms. The lawyers of SIX work closely together and form a tightly knit team. SIX Advocaten is proud of the excellent reputation it has acquired since it was founded. The firm’s reputation is characterised firstly by a high degree of specialisation – PropertyNL, the largest independent research centre for real estate in the Netherlands, refers to the part played by SIX Advocaten as one of the ‘true specialists’ in the field of real estate.

Secondly, it maintains a personal approach – its key client satisfaction survey showed that the firm set itself apart by its personal attention to each client and each case. Clients appreciate that it maintains a low leverage strategy (‘partner on the job’). ’SIX Advocaten stands close to its clients.’ SIX Advocaten aims to work with, rather than for, its clients. By taking an active interest in its clients business, SIX Advocaten aims to acquire more and more in-depth knowledge on the real estate sectors its clients are part of. This enhances the quality of the firms’ work, as well as its efficiency. SIX Advocaten aims to be practical and pragmatic in its advice and its lawyers do not hesitate to say the things a client would perhaps rather not hear.

SIX Advocaten has managed to secure a solid position in the Property Lawyers List, drawn up by the leading real estate market magazine PropertyNL, on the basis of an annual survey of the most prominent property law firms in the Netherlands.

Areas of practice: Topics on which the team at SIX Advocaten advises include property development, land policies and land exploitation, procurement, building contracts such as contracting projects and architectural law, landlord and tenant law, buying and selling real estate and rights in rem such as long leases, building rights, apartment rights and servitudes.

Hanneke Ellerman frequently handles procedures involving the provincial by-laws (provincial verorderingen) and the ‘ladder for sustainable urbanisation (Ladder voor duurzame verstedelijking). Irma van den Berg has broad experience when it comes to the transformation of historic, and industrial, heritage. Six, as a team, has been involved in several high-end hotel development projects, such as the development of the Hoxton Amsterdam, A&O Hotels, hotel Jakarta and the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. Its involvement pertains to all aspects, from building and construction to operational matters and drafting all kinds of contracts relating to the development. Six is, to an increasing extent, involved in due diligence research in relation to the acquisition or refinancing of large real estate portfolios.

By combining its expertise and experience the firm is able to advise clients in all fields of real estate and at every stage of the real estate cycle.