Dentons

Civil Law Notary

Counsel

Boudewijn Waaijer is of counsel of Dentons Europe LLP. He has worked in several law firms since 1983. As from 1998 till 2016 he was employed as civil law notary in Amsterdam.

He specializes in company law and estate planning, in particular family business related issues. His estate planning advice focuses on wealthy private individuals and charitable foundations.

For nine years he worked at the University of Nijmegen as lecturer in notarial law. From 2008 until September 2018 Boudewijn was endowed professor of notarial law at the University of Amsterdam. From 2015 till November 2020 he was appointed professor of notarial law at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the editorial staff of the Weekly Journal for Private Law, the Notarial Profession and Registration, that appears as from 1870.

Boudewijn is the author of several publications in the field of company law, inheritance law and notarial law. At the University of Nijmegen he received a doctorate in 1993 on the thesis Articles of Associations and Amendments. He is author of the manual about the profession of the civil law notary in the Netherlands (last edition 2019) and co-author of a manual about Inheritance law (last edition 2020).

Tilburg University, 1996

University of Leiden, 1993