act Fort Advocaten

Franchise / Real Estate

Managing Partner

Katinka Verdurmen specialises in retail, lease and franchise law.

She advises a large number of leading retail parties with whom she has built long-term relationships. She also works for property developers, investors and estate agents, so she knows the retail sector from different perspectives.

Katinka advises on buying or selling franchise formulas, setting up franchise organisations, establishing franchise associations and on the transfer, termination and modified continuation of franchise relationships. She is often pivotal in collaborating with her clients' other advisers.

Katinka Verdurmen advises, negotiates and litigates on the leasing of commercial space, agreements between franchisors and franchisees, franchise disputes and the structuring of franchise organisations. Katinka represents numerous large domestic and foreign retailers, project developers, investors, franchisors and franchisees.

Katinka Verdurmen has been ranked as a Leading Individual since 2018 in the  EMEA edition of the Legal500 in the section Industry Focus "Retail".

She has also been recommended in the Real Estate section since 2018.

English, Dutch

Chief editor of the Journal of Tenancy Law Business Space (Tijdschrift voor Huurrecht Bedrijfsruimte).

(Co)-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tenancy Law Business Space - Selection & Essence

Member of the Association of Landlord and Tenant Lawyers (VHA)

Lecturer at the Real Estate Business School