Simmons & Simmons — Netherlands

Andrada Tiru

Andrada joined Simmons & Simmons in 2010 and specialises in commercial law and project development. She is a specialist in the field of contract law focusing on commercial contracts, including contracts regarding the provision of goods and services, CAPEX and OPEX contracts, distribution- and agency contracts as well as general terms and conditions. She assists and represents clients during the whole “life-cycle” of a commercial contract, starting from contract negotiations, drafting (complex and bespoke) contracts and advising in respect of contract law issues such as pre-contractual liability, the interpretation of a contract and termination. She also represents clients in court litigation in the event of a commercial dispute. In addition, Andrada has extensive experience in the (re)development and realization of complex large-scale projects. This includes industrial production facilities, infrastructure, renewables and office space. Andrada regularly publishes on contract law topics, amongst others as a contributor to Rechtspraak Contractenrecht (a leading Dutch legal journal on commercial contracting) and as an author of the SDU Comments to the Dutch Civil Code articles 7:9 – 7:19a (legal duties and obligations of the seller) and articles 7:20 – 7:25 (particular effects of a non-performance by the seller). · Commercial Law

Annemarie Elenbaas-van den Berge

Annemarie has gained experience in all major areas of employment law including advising employment issues in relation to sales forces and agency workers. She has particular expertise in advising on corporate related matters including advising on employment law issues that relate to the mergers and acquisition practice (e.g. employees’ representation and consultation, transfer of undertaking, applicability of collective labour agreements, harmonisation of benefits, position managing directors, compliance aspects etc. and data protection (privacy) matters). Annemarie litigates frequently on behalf of clients, in employment courts as well as appellate courts. Her litigation work includes staff terminations as well as applying for interlocutory relief and injunction orders. · Employment Law

Bart Koolhaas

Bart Koolhaas has provided clients with advice on matters relating to power and utilities, transmission and distribution, carbon capture and storage, oil & gas (up, mid and downstream and LNG) and climate change. Over the last ten years Bart Koolhaas has built a practice focusing on renewable energy, with a specific focus on solar projects and (off shore) wind. He has worked on more than 25 solar projects among which the biggest solar projects in the Netherlands and the first floating solar project. He has advised on three offshore wind projects. Bart is a member of the Netherlands Association of Public Law, the Netherlands Environmental Lawyers Association (VMA) and the Dutch Energy Law Association (NeVER). · Power and Utilities

Bob van Els

Bob van Els is a Supervising Associate who is based in our Amsterdam office. He works in our corporate department and specialises in mergers and acquisition, including corporate real estate, energy and natural resources related transactions, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings and joint ventures. He has assisted a variety of corporate clients, investment funds and private equity firms in several transactions. · Corporate Law

David Shearer

David Shearer is a corporate partner in the Netherlands and a member of our energy, natural resources and infrastructure group. He advises on a wide range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and project development and financing. David has significant experience in a number of sectors, including oil & gas, renewable and conventional power, natural resources and infrastructure. He has acted for a range of corporate clients, oil & gas majors, power developers, trading companies and financial investors. David is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN) and the AIEN Hydrogen Taskforce. · Corporate

Edwin van der Velde

Edwin van der Velde is a litigation associate in the Amsterdam office of Simmons & Simmons LLP. He represents clients in national and international disputes and specialises in complex civil litigation. His fields of expertise include commercial disputes, financial liability, general tort claims, defamation, seizures, intellectual property, parallel trade and unfair commercial practices. Edwin also represents a natural person who is the victim of a slander campaign initiated by two Dutch top500 companies and their owner. · Commercial Disputes

Elise Boehmer

Elise specialises in corporate law, focusing on mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and other corporate transactions. Elise is a supervising associate in the firm’s corporate and commercial group in Amsterdam. She focuses on corporate law and is particularly skilled at advising private equity sponsors and private equity owned portfolio companies on M&A. She has a background in all aspects of corporate and civil law. With experience in the private equity sector, clients Elise has worked with include Gilde Equity Management (one of Benelux’s major private equity houses). Working with such clients has given Elise a strong overview of the market, making her a crucial member of the team in Amsterdam. This makes her able to think about more than just the immediate legal issues at stake, meaning she can act in the best interest of the client and provide the most effective legal solutions. · Corporate Law

Emrecan Karacaoglu

Emrecan is a supervising associate in the Financial Markets team in Amsterdam. He advises a broad range of (inter)national corporations and financial institutions on cross-border banking and securities transactions, relating to amongst others, debt financing, real estate finance, project finance, acquisition finance and structured loans. Emrecan also has experience working on capital markets transactions and advises public and private parties that are dealing with insolvency. · Financial Markets

George Driessen

George is a partner in our Dispute Resolution group in Amsterdam. He and his team represent clients in various industry sectors at all stages of domestic and international arbitration and litigation, including ICC, NAI, NCC, ECHR and the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. George has a wide experience advising on commercial disputes arising out of a variety of agreements, including joint venture, shareholder, post-M&A, licensing, distribution, technology transfer and construction agreements. Additionally, he counsels on sensitive matters of corporate governance. Such matters involve disputes about contractual and statutory obligations of shareholders and board members, including inquiry proceedings on (mis)management, corporate control and distressed intracompany relations. George regularly publishes in legal journals. He is co-author of a leading handbook on civil litigation and attachment and responsible for the Dutch Chapter for Thomson Reuters Practical Law on the topics 'Attachment Order', 'Rules of Evidence' and 'Settlement of Disputes'. · Dispute Resolution

Harmen Wielens

Harmen has extensive experience counseling fund managers (including AIFMD/EUVECA/UCITSD), investment firms, pension funds and other financial institutions. He provides clients with integrated legal and financial regulatory advice regarding fund formation and restructuring, fund M&A, investment joint ventures, license applications, investment services and delegation arrangements. He also has expertise in the areas of operational management and governance of regulated undertakings, asset segregation (including depositary and custody arrangements), pension fund outsourcing and the cross-border marketing of financial markets products and services. · Fund Formation and Restructuring

Ivo van Dijk

Ivo is a partner in our banking and finance practice in Amsterdam. His wide-ranging experience covers, amongst others, matters from general corporate financings to leveraged buy outs and real estate financing transactions. He has a particular focus on syndicated lending, multi-jurisdictional (secured) financing arrangements, real estate finance, warehouse financings and loan portfolio transactions. Ivo regularly advises sponsors, corporate borrowers, financial institutions and strategic investors in connection with financing transactions across the credit spectrum. · Banking and Finance

Jaap Tempelman

Partner · IT Outsourcing

Jeroen Bos

Jeroen specialises in capital market transactions with a focus on asset-backed transactions such as securitisations, covered bonds and supply chain financing. He represents financial institutions in their capacity as originator, lender, investor, sponsor, arranger or dealer. He has also been involved in numerous loan portfolio sales, acting for both sellers and buyers. · Capital Markets

Johan Renes

Johan has over 30 years of experience in life science, and is a partner in our Intellectual Property practice. Since his industry start in the late eighties he has been continuously involved in international patent litigation in various courts. From small molecules to PCR, from proteins (hormones, cytokines, antibodies) to medical devices Johan has litigated (and coordinated) in e.g. the Netherlands, Japan, UK, Sweden, USA , Australia and at various patent offices. Johan is also experienced in the commercial and strategic aspects of life science. He has guided companies from inception to IPO and beyond, negotiating licensing and collaboration deals, securing investments and implementing aligned R&D, business and IP strategies. His latest assignments were an IPR for a gene therapy client, a Dutch and Belgian high visibility lawsuit on a cancer drug, a licensing deal between two pharmaceutical companies and implementing an R&D/IP strategy for a company developing a treatment for infectious diseases of the airways. · Intellectual Property

Koen van Leeuwen

Koen works in the financial markets group and is based in our Amsterdam office. He specialises in financial markets regulation and has particular experience in relation to asset management, other investment services and crypto services. He also has experience advising on derivatives regulation and documentation. Since joining Simmons & Simmons in 2019, Koen has advised leading global financial institutions on a broad range of financial services regulations. He is also experienced in application procedures with the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and the Dutch Central Bank (DNB). Furthermore, he regularly negotiates documentation for derivatives, lately in particular with respect to the initial margin requirements. · Financial Markets Regulation

Laurie Kuijpers

Laurie is a partner in employment, incentives and pensions practice and has more than 10 years of experience in employment and employee benefit matters, with a specialisation and strong focus on Dutch and European pension law. She represents pension funds, insurance companies and large national and international companies on pension related issues. Laurie’s ample experience includes, amongst others, involvement of (international) harmonisation and de-risking of pension schemes, liquidation and consolation of pension funds, duty of care issues, M&A transactions, the technical and financial aspects of the complex implementation contracts and mandatory participation in mandatory industry-wide pension funds. She also regularly advises and litigates on high-profile and contentious pension disputes. Furthermore, Laurie has significant experience in representing clients in consultation and negotiation procedures with works councils and unions, dismissal of managing directors and remuneration structures and sector-specific regulations on remuneration in the financial sector. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and courses on pension law aspects and regularly publishes articles on employment- and pension law matters in professional journals. Laurie is a member of the association for pension lawyers, IPEBLA and ViiP, a professional network for women in financial (pension) institutions and registered as a certified pension lawyer (CPL). · Employment Law

Leo Verhoeff

Leo specialises in corporate law with an emphasis on private equity, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate governance. He heads the practice group Company & Commercial and the private equity group in the Netherlands. His client base includes European and US private equity firms, banks, and international and domestic corporations among others active in consumer goods, the manufacturing industry, food and packaging. Leo has developed a consistent and impressive track-record in assisting private equity firms and management teams in buy-outs. · Corporate Law

Machteld Hiemstra

Machteld is a civil liability and regulatory law specialist with a specific focus on highly regulated sectors or products and services, in particular the Life Sciences sector. She is a litigator and advises clients in civil and administrative courts from first instance up to the supreme court or before the European courts. Typically, companies call her for assistance on issues in relation to judicial review, enforcement actions, market access, product liability and commercial conflicts. Her expertise also includes highly significant legal areas, including GDPR and the AI Act. Machteld furthermore has a wealth of experience in handling SPC litigation (Patent Supplementary protection Certificates) which is a niche legal expertise in the cross-over of patent law and medical regulatory law. Due to the nature of the clients, cases very often require technical affinity and deep understanding not just of the law, but especially also of the product or services at stake. Her sector knowledge is deep and practical and includes industry experience having been a global inhouse counsel at Akzo Nobel for several years and fulfilling several interim positions as well. In recent years she advised and represented clients in cases with regard to data protection and trade secrets, open government, GDPR, consumer protection, pharmaceutical and medical devices legislation advertising and promotion, product pricing and reimbursement, pharma and medical devices tender disputes, market access, authorisation and withdrawal proceedings and product liability cases. Machteld speaks, teaches and writes regularly on topics relevant to her fields of expertise. · Civil Liability

Marline Hillen

Marline is a supervising associate in the Financial Markets team in Amsterdam. She specialises in banking and capital markets work, including asset-backed finance. She advises a broad range of corporations and financial institutions on cross border (re)financing transactions. · Banking & Finance

Monique van Herksen

Monique is a partner specialising in transfer pricing, dispute resolution and related international tax issues. Her practice includes advising multinational enterprises on global audit compliance, audit management and risk assessment related to transfer pricing, permanent establishment exposure and business restructurings in the jurisdictions where they do business. Monique handles audit settlements, advance pricing agreements and competent authority requests. She provides hands-on assistance and strategic advice on tax and transfer pricing audits and discussions with tax authorities and local tax counsel, where she is able to call on her experience with leading controversy teams and working for the US Internal Revenue Service. Monique also serves as transfer pricing expert on the Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing of the UN Tax Committee and assists the United Nations’ Financing for Development Office with training and materials for tax authorities in developing countries. She has conducted trainings for organisations such as the Inter-American Centre of Tax administrations (CIAT) and the African Tax Authorities Forum (ATAF). She also has been teaching transfer pricing at leading universities for over 20 years. · International Tax

Oscar Lamme

Oscar is a partner in the IP practice in the Netherlands. He has over 15 years experience and specialises in international patent and trade secret litigation, tech licensing and other technology-related matters. Having a background in engineering, Oscar is well placed to represent a wide variety of multinational clients active in telecom, electronics, biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry. His cases are mostly cross-jurisdictional and he often works on the convergence of different areas of law, such as patent law and competition law. Oscar regularly publishes on patent law topics, such as the Unified Patent Court and the Unitary Patent, and frequently speaks at national and international congresses. He is also a member of EPLAW, the European Patent Lawyer’s Association. · Patent Litigation

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. · Complex Civil Litigation

Pim Duteweert

Pim provides pragmatic corporate tax advice to asset managers, investment funds and corporates. He is specialising in fund structuring, acquisitions and disposals of investments and related corporate matters including management participations and restructurings. Pim is a managing associate based in our Amsterdam office. In 2022 he completed a secondment to a Dutch independent private market fund manager where he worked on a wide variety of matters including fund raising, acquisitions and disposals, asset management and co-investment structures.

Robert Jean Kloprogge

Partner · International Tax Law

Siemkje Batenburg

Siemkje Batenburg is a real estate notary; her practice consists of working on all aspects of commercial real estate and real estate-related transactions. Siemkje advises a wide variety of clients on (commercial) real estate transactions, (re-) financing and real estate development; she also advises on divisions into apartment rights, the establishment of leasehold constructions and any other possible ownership rights in relation to (the legal structuring of) existing properties, (unbuilt) plots of land and solar/wind farms. Siemkje acts for investment funds, private equity funds, institutional investors, banks and debt-funds, who are active/investing in (the (re-)financing) of various real estate asset classes (mainly retail, business, residential, leisure, logistics and energy). · Commercial Real Estate