Jan Willem Schenk

I specialize in advising families, their assets, governance and family businesses, as well as advising on employee participation schemes. I also advise national and international companies on corporate governance.

In 1992 I started working for an international civil-law notary and law firm in Rotterdam. There, I was involved in the international guidance and coordination of investment funds and the setting up of financing structures, particularly for ships. Subsequently, I was a candidate civil-law notary at an international civil-law notary and law firm in Curacao for more than 3 years. On my return to the Netherlands, I was (and still am) a partner at several (international) civil-law notary and law firms.

SPECIALISMS

• Advice on (family and corporate) governance
• Family and their assets
• Asset protection
• Employee participations
• Cross-border restructuring
• Family businesses, including succession
• BES and Curacao corporate lawAdvisering op het gebied van (family en corporate) governance

EDUCATION 

• Commissioners education at Governance University
• Global CFO program Clariden Global Executive program
• Vocational training for notaries
• Notarial law at the University of Amsterdam

POSITIONS

• Editor in Chief LexLumen models
• Teacher LexLumen, Licent and SRA
• Foreign vice-chairman and director of the KNB (2005-2008)
• Non-executive director of Eurokeg BV (an international manufacturing company)
• Trusted advisor to a number of families
• Director of Stichting HVK Stevens Executele en Bewind