Ploum

Managing Partners: Nick Hessels, Rutger Ploum (Chairman)

Number of partners: 24

Number of lawyers and notaries: 82 including partners

Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian 

Firm Overview: 

Ploum is a full service law firm with 82 fee-earners, active throughout the Netherlands and with a strong international focus. Serving midsized and large businesses to listed companies and national governments. Ploum is located in Rotterdam, internationally renowned city of architecture and mainstay of Dutch economy. At Ploum customers experience the advantage of deploying full service capacity and big firm experience while maintaining the character, approachability and attractive pricing of a midsize firm. Its competitive fee arrangements, in addition to a pragmatic way of working, mean that clients find Ploum a perfect alternative to magic circle firms. Ploum is a bold law firm combining swift and appealing results with personal involvement. Ploum believes that clients want to hear the best solution in clear language. The entrepreneur’s solution. The solution that works and gives confidence in the future. Legal knowledge is the basis and business instinct is the forte. This is Ploum. This is what makes Ploum a partner-in-business.

LEGAL MATTERS BUSINESS COUNTS

Main Areas of Practice: 

Ploum has all the relevant legal knowledge and experience to be able to advise businesses and other organisations.

Corporate & M&A: 

Ploum has an experienced M&A team consisting of seven partners (including notaries) and a pool of 20 experienced associates. The corporate team specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and banking and finance issues, including termination of joint ventures. The team assists buyers and sellers on a daily basis, in deals in a wide variety of sectors, and advises on the whole M&A process. The firm also regularly act for private equity funds and other investors.

Contact: Albert Wiggers

Tel: +31 6 2074 1081

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate: 

The lawyers and civil-law notaries are specialised in all matters relating to real estate. They advise on any property-related project, and will be able to identify the various legal points of attention. The firm’s sole aim in this respect is to find a feasible solution – efficiently and with an eye to the costs.

Contact: Anton van den Heuvel

Tel: +31 6 5118 9793

Email: [email protected]

Construction:  

the Construction lawyers working at Ploum add significant value to the projects on which we advise. We advise in complex and high-value infrastructure projects and across all major sectors such as oil and gas, renewable energy, transport and industrial real estate. Our team of Construction lawyers works for – amongst others – national and international contractors, project developers, consultants, government authorities, engineers, architects and other public- and private-sector clients.

Contact: Jacob Henriquez

Tel: [email protected]

Email: +31 6 1210 1368

Employment: 

The team counsels both listed companies as medium-sized businesses regarding labour law issues such as reorganisations, restructuring, mergers, takeovers, dismissals, collective labour agreements, appointment or dismissal of directors under the articles of association, disciplinary measures and strikes as well as participation law matters. The firm’s specialists will advise you on every imaginable aspect of individual and collective employment law matters.

Contact: Rutger Ploum

Tel: +31 6 2269 3315

Email: [email protected]

Administrative, Environment & Planning: 

At Ploum, the specialists in general administrative law will be happy to advise and assist you in objection and appeal proceedings relating to administrative law and covering a wide variety of matters, including the granting of subsidies, enforcement, public access to government information, government liability and, of course, environmental law. In addition to the firm’s hands-on approach, it is especially aware of the political and administrative context in matters pertaining to administrative law.

Contact: Maayke Maas-Cooymans

Tel: +31 6 5130 5726

Email: [email protected]

Fraud & White-Collar Crime: 

Do you require advice and legal assistance for your company, management or staff in criminal and administrative proceedings related to environmental law, or to industrial accidents, fraud, internal investigations and compliance? At Ploum, the team of white collar crime lawyers has in-depth experience in advising and assisting companies in sectors such as construction, the petrochemical industry, industrial manufacture, IT and transport.

Contact: Jouko Barensen

Tel: +31 6 1098 1063

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property: 

At Ploum, the specialists can advise and assist you in protecting your intellectual property rights. For example, the team can file your trademarks and designs with the official authorities worldwide and can also investigate a trademark’s national and international availability. The team has extensive experience in advice and litigation in relation to IT, outsourcing and offshoring, privacy and data protection, social media, e-commerce, licensing, trademarks, copyrights, designs, domain names, advertising and unfair commercial practices. The group also handles trademark and design filing and prosecution and portfolio management.

Contact: Willem Leppink

Tel: +31 6 2021 0504

Email: [email protected]

Insurance & Liability: 

Ploum has in-depth knowledge of insurance practice and provides advice and assistance on all aspects of insurance: from financial supervision to developing insurance products and from contractual spreading of liability risks to settling claims. The firm’s clients in this field include insurance companies, intermediaries, insured companies, government authorities and experts.

Contact: Natalie Vloemans

Tel: +31 6 3023 0260

Email: [email protected]

Restructuring & Insolvency: 

If your company or organisation is facing considerable financial problems, either existing or imminent, you — as a director, supervisory director, shareholder or bank – have urgent need of an advisor that focuses on providing some breathing space. At Ploum, the specialists will provide you with fast and effective assistance. The firm will draw up an action plan — in consultation with you — for one or more of the following, depending on the situation your company is facing.

Contact: Vincent Terlouw

Tel: +31 6 5112 0296

Email: [email protected]

Banking & Finance: 

At Ploum, the banking and finance specialists advise and assist you with all aspects of a (re)financing transaction, including establishing security rights and issuing legal opinions. The team advises on financial regulatory aspects as well.

Contact: Lucas Lustermans

Tel: +31 6 1985 0096

Email: [email protected]

Customs Law, Import & Export Formalities: 

The customs specialists have the right knowledge of the rules governing classification and origin, the rules for calculating the customs value and, especially, case law in this area. By receiving advice on time, you can save on costs considerably. The firm keeps close track of developments and help you to find the way through customs laws and regulations.

Contact: Jikke Biermasz

Tel: +31 6 520 059 16

Email: [email protected]