EXPERTISE
Corporate and commercial law
For founders, small and medium-sized businesses and foreign companies entering the Dutch market, we draft and negotiate the documents a business runs on and advise on the choices behind them.
YOUR CONTACT
Legal adviser and founder
How we can help
Choice of legal form; a private limited company (BV) is incorporated by notarial deed (article 2:175 of the Dutch Civil Code), and we prepare the structure and documents with your notary
Shareholders’ agreements and amendments to the articles of association
Directors’ duties and liability
Registration of a foreign company’s branch with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KVK)
Commercial contracts: supply, distribution, agency, franchise and licensing
General terms and conditions, Incoterms®, payment security and escrow
Good to know
Signing a financial lease for your business? Have the contract checked before you sign. When you lease for your business you are not a consumer: there is no fourteen-day cooling-off period and the consumer credit rules do not apply (articles 7:57 and 7:66 of the Dutch Civil Code). If you fall behind, the general conditions usually allow the lessor to end the lease, take back the car or equipment and claim all remaining instalments with interest and collection costs, less what the asset sells for. Courts generally hold businesses to those terms (Midden-Nederland District Court, 22 July 2026, ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2026:5081).
Already facing a claim as a sole trader? What counts is what the lease was really for, not the trade name on the contract, so have the claim checked before you pay or agree to a payment plan.
Tell us what happened. We take it from there.
Call or WhatsApp +31 6 11 61 02 90, e-mail info@justenalaw.nl, or send your question through the form.