Jan-Willem Schenk

Individual information

Practice Areas

Jan Willem Schenk specialises in private wealth advisory, mergers and acquisitions, (cross-border) restructuring, investment fund formations and setting up and advising on employee benefit schemes. He also advises family enterprises and their family members on governance, wealth planning and asset protection and national and international companies in the field of (corporate) governance.

Jan Willem is a regular lecturer on topics of asset protection, UBO register and family governance for among others LexLumen, Sdu and SRA. Jan Willem also gives in house trainings at accountants and law offices as well as (private) banks. Furthermore Jan Willem is chief editor at LexLumen Modellen.

Jan Willem also advises companies regarding transactions in and with Curacao and the former Dutch Antilles.

Career

Jan Willem Schenk started working in 1992 at Nauta Dutilh. From 1996 until 1999 he worked at Smeets Thesseling van Bokhorst Spigt, a well-known firm on Curacao from.

Jan Willem was international equity partner at CMS, European law firm from 2000-2008 and Baker & McKenzie, a global tax and law firm from 2008-2011 and equity partner at Van Doorne, a Dutch law office from 2011-2013, before setting up the legal practice of HVK Stevens in 2013. In 2019 he founded Lagun Family Services.