Mr Tom Barkhuysen > Stibbe > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Stibbe
BEETHOVENPLEIN 10
1077 WM AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Work Department

Environment and Planning.

Position

Tom is a lawyer and acts for companies, developers and public bodies, such as municipalities, provinces, education and other public institutions, advising them on public law issues and representing them in negotiations and before the Dutch and European courts.

His specialisms include general administrative law, financial public law, compliance and sanctions, expropriation, governmental liability (e.g. unlawful legislation), public access to governmental documents and public transport and aviation. Furthermore, he specialises in public law litigation, law of public organisations, fundamental human rights, state aid, European administrative law and education law.

Tom holds a part-time full professorship in constitutional and administrative law at Leiden University. In addition he publishes and teaches on several administrative law issues.

He is, amongst others, a member of the board of editors of the Netherlands Law Journal and of the executive board of the Dutch Educational Law Association and the Law Firm School.

Languages

Dutch, English, German

Lawyer Rankings

Netherlands > Environment and planning

The planning and environment group at Stibbe is well-equipped to handle an array of complex mandates, particularly in a public law context. The team advises various reputable companies on high-stakes matters surrounding the enforcement of environmental regulations; on permit applications; and on contentious, high-profile cases in connection with topics such as ESG and zoning. Overseeing the practice are planning, mobility and administrative law specialist Jan Reinier van AngerenAnna Collignon, who acts for several heavy-industry companies and has expertise in nitrogen-related cases; renewables-focused Jan van Oosten‘expert lawyer’ Valérie van ’t LamTijn Kortmann, who handles matters with enforcement and government liability aspects; and Tom Barkhuysen. Senior associates Liesbeth Berkouwer and Rut Molenaar-Wingens support on many of the team’s most prominent mandates.