Van Doorne regularly handles real estate development, planning, and environmental regulatory mandates. The department boasts a sizeable leadership team, including Jeanette Ozinga, who advises and litigates on environmental industrial matters, such as recycling and hazardous substances, Remco Bäcker and Cees Kniestedt, who manage enforcement disputes, regulatory challenges, and administrative procedures; Victor van Ahee, who focuses his practice in the energy and infrastructure segments; and Nicole Soliana, who specialises in the construction law aspects of project planning and permitting matters. Ingeborg Wind-Middel left the firm in June 2025.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Involvement, knowledge, and action-oriented.’
- ‘The team has a very service-oriented and good knowledge of the industry, as well as the government (as a main stakeholder). Speed does not come at the cost of fundamental understanding.’
- ‘Jeanette Ozinga is an outstanding individual.'
- ‘Cees Kniestedt is a very capable lawyer.’
- ‘This team is client-focused and that's what we hire them for.’
- ‘The team has a strong focus on the energy transition and very bright minds that work together in providing relevant advice. Worth a special mention is their nitrogen legal analysis.'
Key clients
- Joh. Mourik & Co. Holding B.V.
- Province of South-Holland
- Synchroon
- Port of Amsterdam
- The Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations
- Hornbach
- Friesland Campina DMV B.V.
- Rabobank
- McCain Foods
- AM B.V.
- Amvest
- NVDE, the Dutch Association for Sustainable Energy
Work highlights
Advised 200+ municipalities and other parties as part of the “Taskforce for the acceleration of temporary housing” organised by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, accelerating hundreds of housing projects.
Advises ProRail in an administrative enforcement case concerning the imposition of a demand for compliance by the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment to prescribe and ensure the use of low or no quartz content material with respect to a broad range of rail infrastructure projects.
Advising Friesland Campina in multiple ongoing legal proceedings initiated by the environmental organisation Mobilisation for the Environment (MOB) against permits granted to Friesland Campina.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Remco Bäcker; Cees Kniestedt; Jeanette Ozinga; Victor van Ahee; Nicole Soliana; Jan van der Grinten; Sarah Beeston; Gijs Verberne; Léone Klapwijk; Diederik Maessen; Jan Leliveld
Other key lawyers
Pim Jansen; Annemarie Janssens; Pim Oremans