Business Adviser

Manager Client Acceptance Desk

Specialist Health & Well-being

Coen Vermeij is attorney-at-law at AKD who specialises in economic regulatory law. Coen is part of the EU law, competition and regulation team. He primarily focuses on government financing and contracting with the government. Additionally, Coen specialises in competition law, with expertise in cartel cases (including cartel damages cases), merger control (including sector specific regulation), and cooperation between competitors. Coen assists both government institutions and companies (whether private or public).

David Molenaar is an attorney-at-law at AKD. He specialises in (international) mergers and acquisitions and in corporate law in the broadest sense. He advises and represents clients in, for example, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, and other cooperation agreements.

Business Development Adviser

Elien Van Malder is a Partner and attorney‑at‑law at AKD. She specialises in corporate tax and tax dispute resolution.

Jan Kromhout is partner and board member at AKD. He is an experienced transactional attorney-at-law and specialised in international contracts connected with the offshore oil and gas and shipping industries. Jan provides comprehensive, specialist advice to clients in high value shipbuilding, EPC/EPIC work and major offshore and shipping projects.

Jasper Verhoog is a partner and attorney-at-law at AKD. He is admitted to the bar and practises law in the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Avocat à la Cour, Liste I). He specialises in financial supervision and securities law. He advises domestic and foreign companies on financial supervision and compliance from a Luxembourg and Dutch law perspective.

Julien Hick is a partner and attorney-at-law at AKD's Brussels office and specialises in Belgian and European labour law, with a particular focus on corporate employment law matters. In this framework, he regularly assists national and international businesses with restructurings, individual dismissals, transfers of undertakings, compensation & benefits questions and employment law aspects of M&A transactions.

Head of Finance

Practice group assistant

An attorney-at-law at AKD, Nathalie Niederer is known as a talented litigator. She specialises in (government) liability law, the law on compensation and damages, civil procedural law and collective or class actions. Nathalie regularly litigates before the civil courts (District Courts and Courts of Appeal) in complex liability matters. Her experience extends to administrative actions (including urgent proceedings) in advance of or concurrent with civil-law actions (including urgent ones).

Thomas has a background in corporate law, M&A and commercial contracts. Thomas is since 2012 specialized in drawing up and advising (international) commercial contracts and (international) trade transactions, including (re)structuring of sales channels, termination of (long term) agreements and setting-up joint ventures (cross border).

AV Specialist