Hendrik de Groot

Tel:

(+ 599-9) 461 3833

Fax:

(+ 599-9) 461 7662 / 465 2890

Education:

Master Degree in Dutch Notary Law (1965), Master in Dutch Law (Major in Private Law), Master in Sociology with Specializations in Sociology of Law and Sociology of Labour and Organizations.

Expertise:

Company Law and Corporate Law, Insurance Law and other topics of Busi¬ness Law, European Corporate Law, Matrimonial Law, Law of Inheritance, Law of Property and Law of Obligati¬ons and the Use of Legal Persons by the Government and Privatization.

Languages:

Dutch, English, German, French and Italian

Activities:

Hendrik de Groot is an Advisor with our Law Firm since August 2007. He was an associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam until September 2004. He also serves as an Advisor at several other Law Firms, Notary Offices and Tax Advisors Offices in the Netherlands. He is a frequent Lecturer at Courses for Notaries and Attorneys and has lectured on a regular basis outside of the Netherlands (in Suriname, the United States of America and in Czechoslovakia and recently also in Ethiopia). In the 1990s, he assisted Russian Government Officials with the Drafting of a new Corporate Legislation together with some Colleagues. He was a Member of the Central Works Council (Centrale Ondernemingsraad) of the University of Amsterdam for many years. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of a medium large Housing Cooperative.

Hendrik has written several books and articles. His publications include:

A. Major Publications

- Book on the Liability of the Members of the Board, fourth Edition, 2006.

- Book on the Principles of Company Law, Corporate Law and Business Law, coproduction de Groot-Stein, 9th edition, 2002.

- Report on Part¬nership in agrarian Enterprises, Magazine for Agricultural law, 53,9, 1993.

- Section about Partnership in a Book on special Contracts.), Editor G.J.P. de Vries, 1994,

- Book on Agency in brief, 1996.

- Volume of an Edition on the Law of Representation in European Countries, Editors Prof. Walter Hadding and Prof. Uwe H. Schneider, Institut für internationales Recht des Spar-, Giro- und Kreditwesens an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany), 1998.

- Will the English PLC push aside the Dutch PLC in the sector of small and medium- sized businesses?) , 2004.

B. Articles include:

- Waarom krijgen wij geen LLC? ( Why we don’t get a LLC?), Article in Ondernemingsrecht 2001/9, p. 254 etc.

- De eenpersoonshandelszaak als entiteit: algemeenheid van goederen dan wel fonds de commerce (The Entreprise of a Sole Trader as a Legal Entity: Universitas or Fonds de Commerce, Ondernemingsrecht, 2002/5, p. 132 etc.

- La position de l’associé minoritaire dans le droit néerlandais (The position of the minority shareholder in Dutch Company Law), paper for the Congress Henry Capitant, Mexico, May 2002.

- Book review about: De onderneming en de overdracht onder algemene titel, (The Enterprise and the general Succession of Title) from M.J.G.C. Raaijmakers en L.C.A. Verstappen) in Stichting en Vereniging 2002/4. P. 111 etc.

- Wat zou er aan de BV moeten veranderen wil deze rechtsvorm meer geschikt zijn voor het (midden) en klein bedrijf? (Any Suggestions for changing the Legislation about the private limited Company to make it fit for the small family Enterprise.) In Volume for Prof. Wil Wedekind, 2003.