Höcker Advocaten‘s corporate litigation, public interest and class actions practice is regularly entrusted by listed companies, NGOs, and semi-public organisations. The team is headed by Marc Wolters, who focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate litigation and has experience representing clients in civil lawsuits, class actions, and Enterprise Chamber proceedings. Rick Geerars brings expertise in corporate law and regularly acts for clients in shareholder disputes.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Rick Geerars and Joran Buijck are a good team, good listeners and looking for solutions, and always look first to find a way without going to court.’
- ‘Rick Geerars combines a very personal/human approach and is not afraid to point out other strategies with good, well-thought-through arguments. Joran Buijck is a modest but strong lawyer.’
- ‘Knowledgeable, real ownership of the cases they handle.’
- ‘Marc Wolters is a very skilled lawyer who sees the bigger picture.’
- ‘The team consistently adopted a pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset. They focus relentlessly on the path to a favourable outcome, tailoring strategy to the commercial and factual realities of my dispute. That kind of alignment—between legal strategy and business sense—is rare. ’
- ‘In my experience, the distinguishing strength of this team lies not only in their legal mastery, but in the complementary qualities each individual brings. Collectively, Laurine Bos, Rick Geerarts, and Sterre Nijkamp form a perfectly balanced triangle of strategic leadership, procedural precision, and analytical depth.'
Key clients
- Stichting Urgenda
- The trustees of Exem Energy and Exem Oil & Gas
- Stichting GOWP
- Stichting SOBI-Pensioenherstel
- TCC Global
- Stichting De Thuiskopie
- European Commission
- Swapschade
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Benelux
- Buma/Stemra
- Geldmaat
- Omnicom
Work highlights
Represented a group of residents and their children whose homes a very close to a lily field, in a case attempting to prevent the use of pesticides near their homes.
Advised Stichting SOBI/Pensioenbehoud on a class action lawsuit against a large pension fund, the supervisory authority, and the Dutch state.
Represented two bankruptcy trustees of Exem Energy and Exem Oil and Gas in a series of civil law suits against one of the wealthiest individuals in Africa, Isabel dos Santos.
Practice head
Marc Wolters
Other key lawyers
Rick Geerars; Joran Buijck; Laurine Bos; Sterre Nijkamp