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Jan Willem is an expert in issues of corporate law in the broadest sense. Prior to his move to Banning, he worked as a lawyer at Van Doorne in the Corporate M&A department for almost nine years.
Jan Willem advises businesses on a wide range of corporate law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate housekeeping, private equity, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, management participations and corporate real estate. His clients include both Dutch and foreign companies in various sectors. He has a special focus on healthcare and real estate and provides counsel to various parties that are active in these sectors in the Netherlands.
Jan Willem’s main motivation is entrepreneurship. Jan Willem is energised by thinking along with his clients in a strategic and commercial manner. He thinks in terms of possibilities, opportunities and solutions and advises to the point. Clients benefit from his pragmatic approach and strength, in which the interests of his client always come first.
Clients describe Jan Willem as an energetic and driven person who thinks creatively. Clients appreciate his open attitude and enthusiasm. He is able to get things in motion again and to come up with (new) solutions. Jan Willem was nominated as the ‘M&A Lawyer of the Year’ at the Brookz and Dealsuite’s Merger & Acquisition Awards in 2022.
Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands
27 February 2013
Joined Banning on
1 October 2021
Education
Commercial Economics – Hanze University Groningen Master of Laws, master Corporate Law – University of Groningen Professional training for lawyers – Netherlands Bar Association Law Firm School
Ancillary activities
Chairman supervisory board healthcare centre Lombok, Utrecht
Registered legal practice areas
Jan Willem has registered the following principal legal practice area in the Netherlands Bar's register of legal practice areas: Corporate Law. Based on this registration he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.
+31 20 800 80 16
+31 6 113 885 54
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