Mr Else Loes Pasma > Wijn & Stael Advocaten N.V. > Utrecht, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Wijn & Stael Advocaten N.V. Offices
MALIESINGEL 20
3581 BE UTRECHT
PO BOX 354, 3500 AJ UTRECHT
Netherlands
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Mr Else Loes Pasma
Work Department
Employment
Position
Managing partner
Career
Else Loes Pasma is managing partner at Wijn & Stael. She has been a practicing attorney since 1993 and joined Wijn & Stael as a labor and employment attorney in 1999. She focuses her practice on matters involving involuntary employment termination and administrative disputes, co-determination, insourcing/outsourcing, collective bargaining, ethical misconduct and the Senior Executives in the Public and Semi-Public Sector (Standards for Remuneration) Act (WNT) and Financial Supervision Act (WFT). She counsels, negotiates and litigates in complex cases and acts as a sparring partner for directors and regulators.
Dedicated and Strategic
Her experience and expertise provide her with a unique skill set to handle complex disputes that require a strategic approach. Such cases usually involve a high level of urgency, a large number of stakeholders, potential media scrutiny or an administrative and political context. She believes that early involvement can prove invaluable in assessing the merits of a dispute and developing a strategy to bring it to a satisfactory resolution. Else Loes will do whatever is necessary to secure her clients’ legal goals. “I’m passionate about seeing that justice is served and helping right wrongs in the process.”
Responsible and Engaged
Else Loes has held a number of supervisory positions, including in healthcare. Her many accomplishments include:
- Chairing the complaint resolution committees in the cure and care sector
- Publishing articles on labor and employment issues, governance of foundations and the Senior Executives in the Public and Semi-Public Sector (Standards for Remuneration) Act (WNT).
Memberships
- Attorney/member, Attorney Disciplinary Board
- Arbitrator, KNOV – Royal Dutch Organization of Midwives
- Chair, Entrepreneurs’ Club of the Netherlands Film Festival
- Partner, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht Foundation (municipal theater)
- Member, Kampong Business Club
- Member, De Slinger Utrecht
- Member, VAAN – Association of Employment Lawyers of the Netherlands
- Member, VAAA – Association of Employment Lawyers of Amsterdam
- Member, VAAMN – Association of Employment Lawyers of Central Netherlands
- Member, Association of Health Law
- Board member of the KF Hein Fund Monuments Foundation
- Member of the Disputes Committee D66
Education
- Intervision Leader, 2020
- Mediation, 2003
- Labor and Employment Law, specialist program, cum laude, 2000, Grotius Academy
- Private and Corporate Law, 1992, University of Groningen
- English Language and Literature, American Studies, 1990, Utrecht University
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Employment
The employment practice at Wijn & Stael Advocaten N.V. is jointly led by Else Loes Pasma and Leendert Kruidenier, with Pasma advising on complex governance, compliance, and integrity issues, while mediator Kruidenier assists with complex dismissals and restructurings. The firm often advises shareholders and supervisory boards of companies, trade unions, and works councils on a range of non-contentious employment issues and disputes. The practice is particularly well known for handling employment matters involving foreign senior executives. Maaike Faber and Karlijn van der Heijden are the go-to contacts for works councils issues.