Mrs Willemien Bischot > Van Doorne > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Van Doorne Offices

Van Doorne
JACHTHAVENWEG 121
1081 KM AMSTERDAM
PO BOX 75265, 1070 AG AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
Visit website 31 20 6789 123 31 20 795 4589

Mrs Willemien Bischot

Willemien Bischot photo
+31 (0)20 6789 357 bischot@vandoorne.com

Work Department

Healthcare & Life Sciences, Employment

Position

Willemien heads Van Doorne’s Healthcare & and Life Sciences practice. Willemien advises healthcare providers, private investment companies and related community interest companies on such issues as mergers and joint ventures, funding and financing, corporate governance, contractual relationships with healthcare insurers, municipalities and grant providers, disputes, employee relations, restructuring and recovery. She also assists clients in raising private capital.

Career

Willemien publishes and lectures frequently. Willemien is board member of various Dutch companies, such as the Supervisory Board of CZ (one of the four major Dutch insurance companies), and the regulations evaluation committee, ZonMw. Furthermore, Willemien is vice chairman of the supervisory board, and member of the audit committee of TIAS, School for Business and Society. Willemien became partner in 2000.

Languages

English, Dutch.

Memberships

Willemien is a member of the Dutch Association for Health Law and the Dutch Association of Labour Lawyers.

Education

Postgraduate continuing university education, Health Care Law, University of Utrecht, 1994; Dutch Law, University of Amsterdam 1991. Anglo-American Law, University of Exeter 1990.

Lawyer Rankings

Netherlands > Employment

‘Top quality and well resourced‘, the Van Doorne team is also highlighted for its ‘thorough knowledge of cross-border jurisdictional issues‘. Els de Wind is highly rated for her ‘remarkable long-standing experience in handling cross-border employment matters’ and her profile in the profession further ‘distinguishes her and gives her an enhanced and valuable quality‘. Marjolijn Lips co-heads the team with de Wind and ‘trusted and valued‘ senior associate Cara Pronk is marked out as ‘a rising professional in employment cross-border matters‘. Willemien Bischot and Steven Sterk are also key team members and Albert van Marwijk Kooy continues to advise on pension issues. In addition to advising on large-scale reorganisations, it advises on high-level dismissals, works council and union issues.

Netherlands > Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences

Van Doorne‘s team heads, Willemien Bischot and Dimitri van Hoewijk, serve an extensive client base including private equity company NPM Capital which it advised on the merger of its healthcare portfolio company NL Healthcare with Bergman Clinics. Van Hoewijk in particular ‘stands out as a one-of-a-kind dedicated corporate healthcare partner‘. In other work, the practice advised digital healthcare service provider Topicus Healthcare on its participation in NetQ, the patient data collection company. Marg Janssen left in April 2018 to become a full-time judge.