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Jurjan Geertsma

Jurjan Geertsma

JahaeRaymakers, Netherlands

Work Department

Attorney-at-law, Partner

Position

Partner at JahaeRaymakers. Practice areas: (cross-border) corporate/ white collar crime, Asset Tracing & Recovery, Internal Investigations, Regulatory Compliance and Reputational Issues

Specialized in disciplinary law, the law of sanctions and the reputational issues involved.

Career

Admitted to the Bar: 2004. Former Senior Counsel at BOEKEL (Dentons). Co-founder and Partner at JahaeRaymakers (2015). Additional: Jurjan has been a board member of the Amsterdam Bar Association since September 2022;

He teaches courses at institutions, for professional practitioners and for legal and compliance officers in the fields of Anti Money Laundering (AML), Anti Bribery & Corruption (ABC), International Sanctions Regulations and Compliance, Integrity, Client Confidentiality and Lawyer-Client Privilege, and organises interrogation and search (‘mock dawn raid’) training sessions. Until early 2005 Jurjan worked as senior counsel in Boekel de Nerée’s Fraud & Compliance practice group in Amsterdam. Together with Oscar Pluimer, he runs the Money Laundering section for the Journal of Sanctions Law & Business.

Languages

Dutch, English

Memberships

Jurjan Jurjan has been a board member of the Amsterdam Bar Association since September 2022. He is a member of the Dutch Association of Defence Counsel (NVSA) and of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA). He is also involved in the Corporate Responsibility & Anti-Corruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) .

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