Legal Services
Legal Services
Hoegen Dijkhof are attorneys-at-law and tax counsellors. We are members of the Amsterdam Bar, the Dutch Bar and the International Bar Association; Member of NVAB (Nederlandse Vereniging van Advocaten- Belastingkundigen, the Dutch Association of Advocates-Tax Experts) and Founder of IAG International, a Worldwide Association of Independent Professional Firms and IR. Please click to view our Standard Terms.
Hoegen Dijkhof are authorized to practice law anywhere in The Netherlands. Please see below for an enumeration of fields in which we have ample experience.
Administrative Law
- Building permits
- Article 19- (zoning plan) procedures
- Zoning plan amendments
- Historic building permits
- Estates
- Conversion permits/ splitting permits
- Environmental permits
- Nature conservation law
- Grants
- Tenders
- Compensation
- Expropriations
- Financial supervision law
- Second opinions to clients or advisors
Business Law
- General terms and conditions
- Agency, distribution and franchise agreements
- Suspension and bankruptcy
- Sale of goods
- Oil and gas
- Negotiable instruments
- Know-how and other licences
- Confidentiality agreements
- Second opinions to clients or advisors
Corporate Law/ Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions
- Foreign direct investment in The Netherlands and abroad
- Company formation
- Partnerships, general partnerships, limited partnerships and joint ventures
- Shareholder disputes, buy-outs
- Corporate finance (applying for business financing; proposition; business plan; deal structure; approaching professional investors; negotiating; closing.
- Legal audits, also abroad
- Takeovers, also abroad, also transnational (inventory; business analysis; valuation; sales memorandum; approaching potential strategic and financial buyers; negotiations; letter of intent; due diligence; purchase or sales agreement; closing)
- Comfort letters
- Legal opinions
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
Employment Law/Employee Benefits/Pensions
- Individual and collective dismissal trials
- Other trials on labour relations, including liability cases
- Reorganisations
- Co- determination problems
- Problems with business transfers and other employment issues of takeovers/ mergers and splits, etc.
- Employment contracts, regulations, redundancy arrangements, collective bargaining agreements, freelance-contracts
- The position of the director/administrator
- Sickness, re-integration, etc.
- Employee benefits/pension rights
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
European and Competition Law
- National and European competition issues
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
Family Law/Inheritance Law
- Divorce
- Alimentation
- Antenuptial agreements, partnership agreements, cohabitation contracts
- Curator/administration/mentorship
- Custody and visiting rights
- Inheritances, also abroad
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
Real Property
- Arbitration
- Landlord and tenant cases
- Squatting
- Eviction
- Hidden defects
- Rights and duties between neighbours
- Project agreements
- Real property financing with national and foreign financial institutions; approaching financial institutions on behalf of investors, project developers and companies with or without own real property
- Sales and purchase contracts
- Sale-and-lease-back constructions
- Building contracts
- Disputes about the legal position of architects
- Government contracts and land issuance
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
Tax Law & Estate Planning
- General tax advice
- International tax law
- Formation and management of companies
- Trusts
- Emigration/domicile transfer/ residence transfer/lump-sum taxation
- Expatriates
- Entertainment
- Second opinions to clients and advisors
- General tax advice
Administrative Litigation
- Enforcement (default fine, administrative enforcement, administrative penalty)
- Government tort
- Opposing sanctions
Civil Litigation
- Debt collection and defence against debt collection
- Foreclosures and seizures
- Contract law (performance, suspension, dissolution and claims)
- Tort law
- Product liability
- Mediation, etc.
Corporate Litigation
- Judicial inquiries
- Enterprise chamber
Tax Litigation
- Disputes with the Tax authorities about material tax debts
- Disputes with the Tax authorities about the collection of tax debts
- Filing of claims for damages with the Tax authorities
- Support of accountants and tax advisors with clients with disputes with the Tax authorities
- Second opinions to clients and advisors