About Sjoerd
Sjoerd represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes. He graduated with a master’s degree in civil law and corporate law and subsequently started his career as a lecturer in corporate law at Leiden University, until he joined AMS Advocaten in 2019. Alongside his work as a lawyer, Sjoerd works as a supervisor of master’s theses at the University of Amsterdam.
Specialism
Sjoerd specialises in Corporate litigation and deals with cases that take place within the legal entity as well as disputes with external parties. Sjoerd acts for both national and international clients in legal proceedings, at first instance and on appeal, both in preliminary relief proceedings and in proceedings on the merits. Sjoerd completed the Corporate litigation specialisation course at the Grotius Academy in 2023. This is the most comprehensive and complete postgraduate course in the field of Corporate litigation.
Track record
In January 2025, Sjoerd and his colleague Lennard Noordzij represented a shareholder of a healthcare company. On behalf of their client, they requested the Enterprise Chamber to order an inquiry. The Enterprise Chamber is of the opinion that there are well-founded reasons to doubt the correctness of the company's policy and course of affairs, which justify an investigation. This is due to, among other things, the transfer of personnel by the director, the decline in profits, and the execution of transactions in which the director had a conflicting interest. The Enterprise Chamber also takes immediate measures and appoints an executive with a decisive vote.
Attorney in a variety of inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Section of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.
Representation of a director and shareholder of a property developer in preliminary relief proceedings concerning compliance with unbundling agreements.
Attorney for buyers and sellers in various post-M&A disputes.
Advisor to the disposing majority shareholder of a medium-sized ICT service provider.
Attorney for a director being sued in an extensive directors' liability case.
Attorney for a foreign agent in proceedings against a large Dutch company about the termination of an agency agreement in which the North Holland District Court ordered the principal to pay outstanding commission and damages.
Attorney for a foreign entity in proceedings concerning the classification of a deposit as a share premium payment or monetary loan in which the North Holland District Court granted the full claimed amount of approximately €800,000.
Recent blogs
All blogsVirtual general meetings after COVID-19
COVID-19 Emergency Act The Dutch Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Act Justice and Security gave legal entities the possibility, as of 24 April 2020, to hold virtual general meetings also when the law or the company’s articles of association normally did not allow for this. For instance, the executive board was authorised to determine that voting rights […]
Commission at the end of the agency agreement
Pursuant to Article 7:442 Paragraph 1 of the Dutch Civil Code, an agent is, in principle, entitled to commission at the end of the agency agreement. A number of requirements have been set in law for this. In this blog, contract law attorney Sjoerd Yntema discusses the commission liability at the end of the agency […]
Payment into a hacker’s bank account: at the risk of the hacked creditor or the paying debtor?
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands gave its opinion on the question as to who will have to bear the risk of a payment made into an incorrect bank account, when a fraudster (often a hacker) poses as the creditor and the debtor, based on statements from this fraudster, makes a payment […]
Practice areas register
Sjoerd is a member of the Corporate Litigation Association and the Young Trial Lawyers Association. He has registered corporate law and civil procedural law as his principal areas of legal competence in the Netherlands Bar (NOvA) Areas of Legal Competence Register. On the basis of this registration, he is obliged to obtain ten training credits in each registered principal area of legal competence every calendar year in accordance with the standards of the NOvA.