About
Vestius Advocaten is a specialist law firm with its office in Amsterdam. Vestius Advocaten focuses entirely on employment law, corporate law and contract law. The lawyers view cases not only from a purely legal point of view. The key features of Vestius Advocaten are a pragmatic approach and an alertness to the clients’ needs. ### Languages - Dutch - English
Office locations
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Vestius Herengracht 566 1017 Ch Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Anna Görgün
Anna is a driven employment lawyer. She primarily represents employers and senior management and advises and litigates on individual and collective labor law. An important part of her practice consists of advising on employment and co-determination law aspects of reorganizations and restructurings. Anna is also a member of the Employment Law Advisory Committee of the Dutch Bar Association. · Employment
Bart de Vroe
Bart specializes in employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. His work includes redundancies, works council matters and executive remuneration. He also advises on the employment aspects of corporate transactions (transfer of undertakings). Bart mainly represents companies (listed and not listed). · Employment
Helger Kamerman
Helger is the founding partner of Vestius and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures and restructuring. Helger has a deep knowledge of transactions and the structuring and financing thereof. Helger acts on behalf of various clients including national and international private equity funds, large and midsize companies, informal investors and management. Helger has a strong focus on companies involved in IT, (new) media, renewable energy and business with a technical background. · Corporate / M&A
Jan Trap
In the course of his career Jan has represented a great many managing directors, supervisory directors and shareholders of listed and unlisted companies. As an employers’ lawyer he has broad experience with the employment law aspect of reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as in the field of dismissal law. However, he also frequently represents individual employees. As a Registered Mediator he has a broad experience in facilitating the solution of all kinds of disputes in which professional organisations as well as individual managers and other employees are involved. In that capacity he has contributed over the years to the solution of a wide range of disputes involving the management of commercial and non-profit employers, (groups of) their employees and their works-councils. Jan is also a former Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal of The Hague and a former member of the Disciplinary Board of the Bar of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Supervisory board of B.A.S.F. Netherlands B.V. and he regularly lectures and writes about developments in labour law. · Employment / Labour
Kiki Manse
Kiki Manse specialises in employment law, with a particular focus on international employment law. She advises and litigates on a wide range of employment law issues, including individual and collective dismissal law, employment conditions and reorganisations. In addition to her law studies, she also studied neuropsychology, which gives her insight into human behavior and decision-making within labor relations. Thanks to her broad expertise, she assists both national and international clients and is always looking for strategic and pragmatic solutions. She is an author at Jurisprudentie in Nederland (JIN) and a board member of the Association of Employment Lawyers Amsterdam (VAAA). · Employment
Maria-Christina Kool
Maria advises clients on a wide range of topics, such as terms of employment, individual and collective dismissal, summary dismissal, non-competition clauses, reorganizations and co-determination. Maria is known for her accessibility and commitment. She works result- and solution-oriented and has an eye for the human dimension and relationships. With clear and pragmatic communication, Maria ensures short lines of communication and gives fast, concrete and to-the-point advice. · Employment
Martyn Top
Martyn has been an employment lawyer since 2004. He advises and litigates in individual and collective dismissal cases, employee participation issues and with regard to the hiring and hiring out of employees. His clients are mostly internationally operating companies and expats, mostly from the tech industry. Martyn has joined Vestius as a partner as of 1 February 2025. In addition to his role as a lawyer, he is a member of the board of the European Electric Guitar Award Foundation. · Employment
Michiel van Haelst
Main focus is on individual dismissals, collective layoffs, transfers of business (mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, harmonization of employment conditions and works council issues), non-competition issues, employer liability, employment contracts, including (international) secondment, collective bargaining agreements and personnel data registration issues with the Dutch Data Protection Authority. · Employment
Puck Keurentjes
Puck works as an associate within the employment law department of Vestius and primarily represents employers. · Employment
Sander Pieroelie
Sander specializes in contract law. He has broad experience in drawing up and reviewing contracts, but also in assisting clients that are involved in conflicts regarding commercial contracts. Within the field of contract law, Sander has a lot of knowledge about distribution agreements, cooperation agreements, sale and purchase agreements, contracts for services, confidentiality agreements, IT contracts, user terms for websites and general conditions. · Contract Law
