Kees Groffen

Partner

Expertise

Private Equity Corporate Advisory & Corporate Governance Financial Markets & Regulation Pensions & Pension Funds Insurance

Summary

Kees specialises in investment management, including providing regulatory advice to domestic and foreign investment funds and asset managers, and advising on the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, including retail and private equity funds.

He also advises asset managers and pension funds on discretionary and fiduciary asset management agreements and asset pooling.

Kees’s recent work includes advising:

NNIP on the migration of its Luxembourg management company to the Netherlands
ABN AMRO on the spin-off of ABN AMRO Participaties
APG Asset Management on MiFID II
Robeco on the outsourcing of back- and mid-office functions
Redevco on Urban Retail Ventures, a joint-venture with PGGM

“Matches very high quality with a hands-on approach and is very client-friendly.”

Chambers Europe

Qualifications

Profession
Notaris (civil law notary), appointed in 1999, and Advocaat, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 1990
Languages
Dutch, English
Education
University of Tilburg
University of Amsterdam
Additional positions
Contributing editor of the Dutch Financial Law Review (Tijdschrift voor financieel recht)
Member of the legal and regulatory committee of InvestEurope
Lecturer at the postgraduate Grotius programme on financial law
Regular speaker at conferences
Member of De Brauw's AML Practice Group