Mr Walter Hendriksen > Van Doorne > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Mr Walter Hendriksen

+31 (0)20 6789 269 hendriksen@vandoorne.com

Work Department

Dispute Resolution, Insurance Law: Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Litigation, Insurance Law, Corporate Litigation; Corporate Law: Corporate Governance

Position

Walter Hendriksen specialises in complex issues involving director’s and officer’s liability, professional liability, general liability, insurance law, commercial litigation, fraud and white-collar crime. Walter’s clients are typically professional services organizations (especially lawyers, civil-law notaries, accountants and tax consultants).

Walter regularly gives lectures and publishes papers on professional liability of lawyers and other legal practitioners.

For many years Walter has lead the Litigation and Insurance group, which handles a wide range of sophisticated liability and insurance matters.

Walter was President of the Netherlands Bar Association from 1 July 2013 until 1 January 2016.

From 1999 to 2006, Walter served as the acting President of the Amsterdam Bar Association and a member of its Supervisory Board. Walter was a member of the editorial board for the disciplinary law section of the Dutch magazine “Advocatenblad” (Lawyer’s Journal). Furthermore, Walter has a number of external functions.

A graduate of Utrecht University, Walter invariably appears on the ‘recommended lists’ of such leading directories as Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.

Career

Walter has been a lawyer with Van Doorne since 1983 and a partner since 1991.

Languages

German, English, Dutch.

Memberships

Walter is a member of the Dutch Corporate Litigation Association.

Education

Dutch Law, Utrecht University.