Mr Sijbren Kuiper > Van Doorne > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Van Doorne Offices
JACHTHAVENWEG 121
1081 KM AMSTERDAM
PO BOX 75265, 1070 AG AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Mr Sijbren Kuiper
Work Department
Employment & Benefits, Finance & Restructuring, Information & Communication Technology
Position
Sijbren is pension law specialist. He represents a large number of pension funds and pension service providers. He also advises Dutch and foreign companies on pension matters. Sijbren has extensive experience in the field of pension asset transfers, liquidations of pension funds, outsourcing, changes and de-risking of pension schemes, works councils aspects of pensions, exemption of sector wide pension funds, regulatory pension issues. He also litigates on pension matters (including the liability of pension providers).
Publications
Sijbren is co-author of a commentary on the Dutch Pension act, editor of PensioenJurisprudentie and author of the book “Nederland Pensioenland”.
Key Sectors
Pension sector / Pension funds
Career
Before he began work as a lawyer at Van Doorne, Sijbren worked at a number of universities, at a bank/insurance company and at a financial markets regulator.
Languages
Dutch, English
Memberships
- Member Dutch Bar Association (NOVA)
- Member of the advisory committee on pension law of the Dutch Bar Association (NOVA)
- Board member Dutch Pension law association (VVP)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Pension jurisprudence (PJ)
- Member International Pension & Employee Benefits Lawyers Association (IPEBLA) and Country Representative Netherlands for the IPEBLA Journal
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Employment
The employment and pensions practice at Van Doorne is jointly led by employment experts Marjolijn Lips, Steven Sterk, and recently promoted partners Cara Pronk and Sijbren Kuiper. The team boasts a well-rounded employment offering, including advising on executive and boardroom conflicts, workers’ participation issues, the employment aspects of restructuring and M&A, and investigations into issues such as inappropriate behaviour and misconduct. The team is also known for its strength in pension fund transactions and pensions litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Mediation
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Insurance
Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Energy
- Environment and planning
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Investment funds
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Project finance and PFI
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- Dispute resolution: class actions