Ms Cornélie Arnouts > Dentons > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Ms Cornélie Arnouts

Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Partner

Career

Cornélie Arnouts is a partner in Dentons Real Estate practice group. Cornélie is renowned for her common sense and is very passionate about her work.

Based in Amsterdam, her commercial law practice has a focus on commercial real estate including commercial leasing and transactional real estate involving purchases, sales, (re)developments or transformations of commercial properties in a broad sense. Cornelie’s divers client base includes developers (amongs others: (student) housing), investors, commercial real estate firms, financial institutions, landlords or tenants.

A seasoned litigator, she deals with disputes related to real estate, property law, and law of obligations including purchasing and tenancy. She covers all aspects of commercial property law, rights in rem, forced auctions/ seizures, sale, purchase and lease conflicts, such as defects, rent review, renovation, rights of first refusal and termination issues.

Cornélie is also heading the Professional Liability and Disciplinary Law team in Amsterdam. She is knowledgeable in professional liability and disciplinary law of professionals, particularly civil-law notaries, estate agents, surveyors, liquidators and lawyers. Her client base includes professional insurers, organized interest/ professional real estate groups and commercial real estate firms and individual (real estate) professionals. .

She gives regular lectures on the topics of real estate and professional liability. She currently teaches at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate, the Nyenrode Business University, the Academy of Real Estate (Academie voor Vastgoed), the MVA Academy (MVA Academie), OSR, Lexlumen and the Association for Civil Notaries (Stichting tot Bevordering der Notariële Wetenschap). She also frequently publishes in commercial and legal magazines amongst others: Vastgoedmarkt.

Languages

Dutch, English, German

Memberships

Cornélie is a Dutch member of RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) and member of various other organisations including the Association of Young Real Estate Lawyers (Vereniging Jonge Onroerend Goed Juristen), Fresh Alumni, The Association of Tenancy Law Lawyers (Vereniging van huurrecht advocaten), DWIRE, Young Urban Land Institute and the European Lawyers Association.

Education

Amsterdam School of Real Estate, 2013, LL.M., Real Estate (MRE)

2009, European Lawyers Programme in Edinburgh, Scotland; Scottish bar exams

Grotius Academy, 2008, Real Estate

Radboud University Nijmegen, 2005, LL.M., Business Law

Maastricht University, 2002, LL.M.

University of Stellenbosch, 2002, LL.M.,

University of California at Berkeley, 1999, LL.M., summer course