Lawyers in Netherlands

Paul Sluijter

Partner (Class Actions and Litigation)

Houthoff

Paul Tanja

Paul Tanja has been an attorney-at-law since 2015. He specializes in contract law, liability law and insurance law. Within these fields, Paul has extensive experience advising on complex matters and assisting clients in civil proceedings up to and including at the Supreme Court. Paul has handled cases for clients in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, energy, aviation, advertising, construction, finance and government. In addition, Paul has experience in disputes concerning the setting aside and enforcement of arbitral awards. Paul completed his studies in Dutch law at the University of Utrecht. He also studied at the University of Cambridge. Paul previously worked for five years as a lawyer at another firm and before that as an external court clerk at the Court of Appeal of The Hague. He is also a lecturer in international contract law at VU University Amsterdam. Paul publishes regularly in his field. He is admitted as a lawyer at the Supreme Court.

Pels Rijcken

Paul Tjiam

Paul Tjiam is a litigation partner in the Amsterdam Office of Simmons & Simmons. His practice focuses on national and international complex civil litigation related to (geopolitical) commercial disputes, antitrust, general tort claims, liability of financial institutions, defamation, seizures and IP. Paul has worked on high profile international litigation matters, including an ownership dispute of the Stolichnaya brand against the Russian State, representing fintech companies in financial liability claims, representing a global beverages brand with the dismantlement of an international operating counterfeit syndicate and a commercial ownership dispute against the Turkish State following the alleged coup d’état. Paul also assists a natural person who is the victim of a slander campaign initiated by two Dutch top500 companies and their owner. Paul devotes a significant portion of his practice to pro bono service, representing UNICEF Nederland, Doctors without Borders and PILP in legal matters.

Simmons & Simmons

Paul Vestering

Paul has proven expertise in his specialist areas including employment law, pension law and works council matters. He handles many complex matters such as executive remuneration and terminations, corporate governance and collective labour issues with unions and works councils. Litigation is also a key aspect of Paul’s practice. He deals with the employment aspects of corporate restructuring and transactions. Furthermore, he is a certified pension lawyer and advises employers and pension funds in such matters. Please visit the Stibbe website for more details: https://www.stibbe.com/people/paul-vestering.

Stibbe

Paul Wanders

Partner

Dentons

Paul Welten

Partner

AKD

Paul de Vries

Partner (Corporate / M&A)

Houthoff

Paul van der Bijl

Partner

NautaDutilh

Pauline Kuipers

Pauline Kuipers is a partner in Bird & Bird's Netherlands office, based in The Hague, where she was one of its founding lawyers in 2001. Today, she co-leads the firm's International Competition Law Group and heads the Competition Group in the Netherlands, providing clients with wide-ranging expertise in EU & competition law, particularly in regulated sectors and on the interface between IP and competition law. She is also a member of the firm's ESG steering group. On the basis of her EU law expertise, Pauline advises many global companies on ESG regulatory developments, particularly CRSD and CSDDD, and helps them understand how these regulations affect their business and what it means in terms of compliance. In The Netherlands, she leads the team dealing with cartel procedures, abuse of dominance matters, and merger notifications to the Dutch competition authority and European Commission. The team also co-ordinates multi-jurisdictional merger filings and foreign investment screenings, and deals with private enforcement actions and regulation of network industries. Meanwhile, her expertise in IP law enables her to advise in matters at the convergence of competition law and intellectual property, such as licensing arrangements and other technology transfer agreements, standardisation discussions, 'refusal to licence' issues, FRAND licensing, and abuse of IP rights. In addition, Pauline's team advises on competition rules on undertakings granted special or exclusive rights by the state, including state aid and foreign subsidies.

Bird & Bird

Pauline Leegwater

For more information, please visit our website at Pauline Leegwater | Loyens & Loeff.

Loyens & Loeff

Pauline Vos

Pauline is a partner and heads the Corporate Law practice group of Bird & Bird in the Netherlands. She has broad experience in (national and cross-border) mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions, with a particular focus on the Communications, Media and Life Sciences sectors. With particular experience in cross-border M&A transactions, Pauline has acted on behalf of national and international clients on numerous multi-jurisdiction share and asset transactions. Pauline also advises clients on a broad range of general corporate matters and is also regularly involved in private equity deals, advising investors as well as target companies.

Bird & Bird

Pauline van Aardenne

Van der Feltz Advocaten

Paulus Merks

Partner Tax

HVK Stevens

Pepijn Beugelsdijk

Attorney

Wijn & Stael Advocaten N.V.

Pepijn van Ginneken

Partner

Brinkhof

Pete Lawley

Partner (M&A and Private Equity)

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

Peter Brouns

Peter enjoys fulfilling the role of trusted advisor to his clients, business owners and companies. He calls on his extensive expertise in corporate law to advise and assist them, tackling cases with a solution-oriented approach that adds value. For example, he advises national and international clients, assisting them to optimise their legal corporate structure and governance and compliance issues. Peter specialises in corporate law, insolvency law and restructuring. As a trustee, he regularly acts in major, complex bankruptcies. For instance, he was involved in the bankruptcies of companies including Componenta iron foundries and Favini paper mills. Along with the Insolvency and Restructuring team, he was listed in Legal500’s EMEA Guide 2020. Clients praise his ability to transpose complex matters into business practice, his vast knowledge and the team’s approachability. Peter studied Dutch Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He completed the European Master in Law and Economics, an international study programme offered by the universities of Oxford, Paris, Rotterdam and Ghent. In the course of his career, Peter has completed the Grotius specialisation programme in Insolvency Law and the specialisation programme in Financial Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Peter is a member of INSOLAD, the Dutch Association of Insolvency Lawyers, and TMA, an international network of turnaround management professionals. He has been working as a lawyer at Boels Zanders since 1992 and was managing partner from 2008 to 2014.

Boels Zanders Advocaten

Peter Corten

For more information, please click the following link: Peter Corten | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Peter Habraken

Partner

HabrakenRutten

Peter Huijbregts

Partner

LXA Attorneys

Peter Kramer

Counsel

Kennedy Van der Laan

Peter Mauser

Peter Mauser was admitted to the Dutch Bar in 2012 and joined Pels Rijcken’s Employment and Public Service Law department in 2015. Peter advises and litigates on all aspects of employment law. His clients include governments and private clients. He has a particular interest in collective labour law, transfer of undertaking, pension law, and flexible employment contracts, including the position of self-employed individuals and platform economy. Peter studied International Public Law at Utrecht University, and went on to obtain his master’s degree in Employment Law from the University of Amsterdam. During his studies, he worked for the Employment Law Chair Group, among others, at the University of Amsterdam. Peter recently completed the postgraduate programme in Employment Law, PALA, with distinction. He is a member of the Dutch Employment Law Association (VvA) and the Netherlands Employment Lawyers Association (VAAN).

Pels Rijcken

Peter Soede

Partner

CMS

Peter Voorhees

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright