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Jeroen van Mourik
Jeroen van Mourik
Jeroen leads Houthoff's Tax practice. He specialises in the application of tax treaties and BEPS. He is experienced in negotiating Advance Tax Rulings with the Dutch tax authorities. He advises private equity clients and financial institutions, as well as clients in the automotive, TMT and consumer products industries. Jeroen has more than 15 years of experience advising multinational clients (mainly Asian and US) on the Dutch corporate and international tax aspects of cross-border investments, reorganisations and mergers and acquisitions.
Juan Vervuurt
Juan Vervuurt
Juan is Counsel, specialising in Dutch and EU financial regulatory law. He has extensive experience in communicating with national and international financial supervisors, including the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM)), the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)), the EU Single Resolution Board (SRB) and the European Central Bank (ECB). He advises financial companies, their shareholders and other stakeholders regarding market access, cross border services and licensing requirements, rules of conduct including advertising and product conditions, regulations related to crypto assets and compliance with anti-money laundering regulations. Juan was Senior Legal Counsel Regulatory at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. between 2015 and 2022, where he gained extensive experience in digitalising banking services, innovation and fintech. He also gained profound knowledge of the EU bank recovery and resolution regulations during this period. Before that, Juan was a financial regulatory law lawyer for more than ten years.
Kirsten Berger
Kirsten Berger
Kirsten specialises in energy law and has extensive experience in the energy and industrial sector. She acts as counsel to various energy companies and industrial companies in respect of projects, transactions, commercial contracts, joint ventures, regulatory and financial matters. As a true sector specialist she has an extensive track record in respect of: projects and project development including wind parks (onshore and offshore), power plants, gas exploration and production and industrial plants (e.g. steam or hydrogen plants, LNG terminals, pipelines etc.); M&A transactions including controlled auctions for wind parks, interests in offshore gas fields and pipelines, industrial restructurings and private M&A transactions in the sector; commercial contracting including power purchase agreements (including corporate PPA's), (industrial) gas supply agreements (including natural gas, steam, hydrogen, nitrogen etc.), transport and storage agreements, tolling agreements and refinery gas agreements utilities agreements (including water and heat); joint ventures in relation to wind parks, power plants, upstream gas projects and for innovative projects such as a waste to chemicals project; regulatory matters including connection and transportation issues, third party access, gas quality matters, program responsibility and balancing, CO2 emissions trading, SDE subsidy aspects and EU Energy Regulations; real estate aspects including pipeline issues and lease and ownership aspects.
Loet Venrooy
Loet Venrooy
Loet is head of Houthoff’s Banking & Finance practice group and of the Financial Services section and he has a particular focus on cross-border banking and financing transactions, and financial restructuring. He has extensive experience in advising clients and with transactions in the financial sector, including in relation to acquisition financing, real estate financing, syndicated and bilateral loans, debt restructuring, and structured and asset-based financing. His clients include financial institutions, private equity parties and other funds and companies. Loet regularly lectures on banking and securities law.
Marloes Brans
Marloes Brans
Marloes is Head of Climate Risk & Sustainability and specializes in environmental law and spatial planning law. She advises and litigates for the industry, project developers, investors and government bodies, and has extensive experience in liaising with the authorities (environmental permission authorities, the SZW inspectorate, and the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate). Marloes is also regularly involved in due diligence and contract negotiations in M&A and transactions. Marloes is Chair of the Environmental Law Practice Group of Lex Mundi, a worldwide network of law firms which Houthoff is also a member of. Marloes is a board member of the Dutch Construction Lawyers Association, and a board member of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet Fund. She was a member of the Reflection board for sample cards on the New Environment and Planning Act of the Dutch Municipalities Association.
Michel Klijn
Michel Klijn
Michel’s work focuses on projects, PPS, construction and procurement law, and public transport. He is actively involved in complex building projects and an array of contract types, including D&C, DBM, DBFM, DBFMO, concessions and alliances. Michel advises a wide range of clients in the construction, infrastructure, transport and energy sectors, on matters such as contracting, innovative procurement procedures, negotiations and litigation. Michel is also a civil engineer, and, prior to joining Houthoff, he worked at a large Dutch construction company for several years. He also teaches at the Dutch Institute for Construction Law and regularly publishes on forms of collaboration in the construction industry, and procurement law.
Oscar van Angeren
Oscar van Angeren
Oscar heads Houthoff's Investment Management practice group and works at both the Amsterdam office and the London office. His work focuses mainly on the establishment of investment institutions, including private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, retail funds (UCITS and non-UCITS) and funds of funds. Oscar also advises asset managers, pension funds and other institutional investors on matters such as discretionary and fiduciary/integrated asset management, asset pooling, and the laws and regulations that apply to collective and other forms of asset management. He frequently publishes and teaches on various subjects related to asset management and custody.
Paul Sluijter
Paul Sluijter
Paul specialises in corporate, commercial and private international law. His focus lies on complex cross-border disputes, including competition law follow-on litigation, international mass claims, and proceedings concerning shareholder liability. His challenges lie in determining an international strategy in matters where several possible courts may have jurisdiction and foreign parallel proceedings are sometimes already pending. In this context, he advises on motions contesting jurisdiction, cross-border discovery, attachment, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. He also focuses on the question of which law applies to bundles of claims or contracts, particularly where strategic possibilities exist on the boundaries of procedural law and substantive law, and on the boundaries of company law and civil law. Paul is a member of the Dutch Association for Procedural Law and involved in the Houthoff Incubator Programme, a project that offers promising start-ups reduced-rate legal advice. He has provided private international law courses for the judiciary, and publishes on civil procedural law and private international law. Between 2007 and 2011, Paul conducted Ph.D. research as well as various other research and teaching assignments at Tilburg University, to which he is now affiliated as a research fellow.
Philip van der Eijk
Philip van der Eijk
Philip specialises in national and cross-border M&A transactions. He advises corporates as well as private equity funds. He has extensive experience assisting in complex disentanglement transactions. Philip previously worked at Houthoff's Brussels office in the EU & Competition practice group and brings a thorough understanding of M&A related regulatory aspects to the table. From 2018 to 2019, Philip was seconded to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. He was a nominee for the Dutch M&A Awards 2017 organised by Alex van Groningen, a leading M&A community in the Netherlands.
Remme Verkerk
Remme Verkerk
Remme is a specialist in litigation and civil procedure. He is a member of Houthoff's Litigation and Arbitration practice groups and the Supreme Court Litigation Team. He is involved in many landmark cases on procedural law, arbitration, property law and insolvency law before the Supreme Court. He litigates complex legal cross-border disputes before state courts. In particular, he has been frequently involved in litigation that concerns the annulment, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. Remme has ample experience in investment arbitration cases. He has acted on behalf of sovereign states as well as investors. In addition, he is a professor of civil procedure and arbitration law at Utrecht University. He frequently lectures and has authored many publications. Furthermore, he is a member of the Dutch Association of Civil Cassation Litigators, the Dutch Association of Insolvency Practitioners and the Dutch Association for Procedural Law.
Rick Cornelissen
Rick Cornelissen
Rick specialises in competition litigation (private enforcement) with a specific focus on follow-on cartel damages claims. He also advises on and litigates contractual and other competition law disputes in civil proceedings, including disputes on access to distribution networks and the performance and termination of contracts. In what are often complex cartel damages claims, Rick helps clients determine the right strategy. This frequently involves a combination of cross-border claims. He uses his legal and practical skills and expertise to create an overview for the client by fulfilling a coordinating role at the required central or pan-European level. Rick also has extensive experience in advising on, negotiating and litigating many aspects relating to commercial contracts, particularly with regard to distribution, franchise, agency and e-commerce (with a focus on automotive and other high-end consumer goods).
Vincent Affourtit
Vincent Affourtit
Vincent is head of Houthoff’s Investigations & Public Enforcement practice. He specialises in financial and economic public law. Vincent assists clients that are the subject of regulatory investigation, supervision and enforcement, or that have brought proceedings in relation to such matters, by swiftly and efficiently finding a solution for the problems identified during the investigation. Preventing or limiting reputational damage is an essential part of his work, as are ensuring a good relationship with the key stakeholders and providing effective and efficient assistance in the event of litigation.
Walter van Overbeek
Walter van Overbeek
Walter has a general commercial practice and specialises in contract law, litigation and competition law. He advises on and litigates matters concerning production, distribution and agency, and regularly assists producers, importers and retailers in disputes with other parties in the chain. He was a managing partner at Houthoff Buruma between 2012 and 2015. Walter also leads the Automotive Industry Group, representing mainly manufacturers and importers of luxury consumer products. Walter has successfully assisted several distribution network restructurings. He is regularly asked by manufacturers to coordinate large projects in different countries. Walter has been involved as counsel in many important legal disputes related to his area of practice. He also litigates with some regularity against non-authorised internet dealers of products - including cars, bicycles, electronics and cosmetics that are marketed within the EU via selective distribution systems - and is highly experienced in advising on omni-channel retaining in, among other things, the food and drinks industry. Walter is a guest lecturer in commercial contracts on the 'Zuidas Master' at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and also the author of various publications. He has been a speaker at several conferences, including the annual conference on competition law in the automotive industry. He worked in EU competition law in Brussels for five years.
Weyer VerLoren van Themaat
Weyer VerLoren van Themaat
Weyer specialises in competition law and leads Houthoff’s Competition practice group. He is also head of Houthoff’s Healthcare sector group. Weyer focuses in particular on merger notifications and cartel defence litigation. His work involves issues relating to regulation and competition in healthcare, and advising and assisting healthcare institutions in the context of partnerships. Weyer represented T-Mobile Nederland in the ‘mobile operators case’ brought by the Netherlands Competition Authority, which eventually resulted in the seminal ‘T-Mobile case’ at the European Court of Justice on the definitions of object and effect in the context of internal market restriction. He also represented Accell Groep, the second largest bicycle manufacturer in Europe, in an appeal against a decision of the Netherlands Competition Authority regarding alleged mutually agreed concerted practices in the form of information exchange. In relation to merger control, he was involved in the EU notification of TomTom’s takeover of TeleAtlas. In relation to healthcare, he assisted the mergers of the ErasmusMC and Havenziekenhuis, the St. Elisabeth Hospital and TweeSteden Hospital, the Kennemer Gasthuis and Spaarne Hospital, and the AMC and VUmc. Weyer was a resident partner of the Brussels office from 1997 to 2005. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the ABA, the Dutch Competition Law Association and the Dutch Association for European Law. He is also Chair-Emeritus of Lex Mundi's Antitrust, Competition and Trade group; non-governmental advisor of the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets; and chair of the advisory committee of the Netherlands Bar Association. Weyer is the founder and a board member of the competition law foundation Stichting Ontwikkelingen Mededingingsrecht, and has authored and co-authored various books on competition law, including European Competition Law (Edward Elgar) and Nederlands Mededingingsrecht (Kluwer).
Willem Liedenbaum
Willem Liedenbaum
Willem works in the Corporate/M&A practice group and has extensive experience with complex cross-border mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He also regularly advises on corporate governance, joint ventures, securities regulatory compliance and general cross-border matters. Willem has co-authored articles published in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions, Global Legal Insights: Mergers & Acquisitions and SDU Commentaar Ondernemingsrecht (a leading commentary reference work on Dutch corporate law). Willem graduated from Radboud University Nijmegen with a degree in law in 2012. That same year, he joined Houthoff and was admitted to the Amsterdam Bar. In 2017, Willem worked as a legal counsel in Rabobank's Capital Markets and M&A department.