Legal & Tax Services

Hoegen Dijkhof Dutch Business Lawyers are active and experienced in many areas of law. Please see below for an enumeration of the areas of law in which we have ample experience and stand ready to assist you. We also offer second opinions in all of the areas mentioned below. We can represent you in any civil, administrative or tax dispute.

Our Standard Terms are applicable to all our activities. To read them, please follow this link: Standard Terms.

Mr. Arnold C. Hoegen Dijkhof LL.M., registered the following areas of law in the Register of Areas of Law of the Dutch Order of Advocates: Business Law and Civil Trial Law.

• Building permits
• Compensation
• Conversion permits, splitting permits
• Environmental permits
• Expropriations
• Financial supervision law
• Grants
• Management and conservation of country estates
• Monuments
• Nature conservation law
• Tenders
• Zoning plan amendments

• Enforcement (default fine, administrative enforcement, administrative penalty)
• Government tort
• Zoning plan procedures

• Agency, distribution and franchise agreements
• Confidentiality agreements
• General terms and conditions
• Know-how and other licences
• Negotiable instruments
• Oil and gas
• Sale of goods
• Suspension and bankruptcy

• Automotive litigation
• Contract law (performance, suspension, dissolution and claims)
• Debt collection
• Foreclosures and seizures
• Mediation
• Product liability
• Torts

• Challenge termination of bank account
• DAC6 reporting issues
• Disciplinary cases
• DNB Audits
• DNB Objections and Appeals
• KYC procedures
• Money Laundering issues
• Tax Compliance
• Wtt Compliance
• Wwft Audits
• Wwft Compliance

• Arranging legalised and apostilled documents
• Comfort letters
• Company formation
• Corporate finance (applying for business financing; proposition; business plan; deal structure; approaching professional investors; negotiating; closing).
• Foreign direct investment in The Netherlands or abroad
• Legal audits, also abroad
• Legal opinions
• Partnerships, general partnerships, limited partnerships and joint ventures
• Permit applications for financial institutions
• Shareholder and managing director disputes, buy-outs
• Takeovers or mergers, 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)

• Dispute resolution
• Enterprise chamber
• Judicial inquiries
• Mediation, default and tort

• Co-determination problems
• Employee benefits and pension rights
• Employment contracts
• Employment contracts, regulations, redundancy arrangements, collective bargaining agreements, freelance-contracts
• Ilness and re-integration
• Individual and collective dismissal trials
• Other trials on labour relations, including liability cases
• Problems with business transfers and other employment issues of takeovers, mergers and splits, etc.
• Reorganisations
• The position of the director and / or administrator

• Intellectual property
• National and European competition issues
• Trademark registration

• Divorce with important financial aspects
• Inheritances, inheritance tax, succession
• Prenuptial agreements, partnership agreements, cohabitation contracts

• Arbitration
• Building contracts
• Government contracts and land issuance
• Landlord and tenant cases
• Project agreements
• Real property financing with national and foreign financial institutions
• Rental agreements for commercial properties
• Sale-and-lease-back constructions
• Sales and purchase contracts

• Formation of entities
• General tax advice to private parties and businesses
• International company or private tax advice, structure planning and optimisation

• 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 advisrs with clients with disputes with the Tax authorities