Arjen kampherbeek

Employment / Corporate

Arjen has extensive experience in the Port of Rotterdam, but also advises manufacturing companies and companies in various other sectors. Arjen specialises in employment law and corporate law and deals with many cases in which knowledge of both areas of law is desired. He is an experienced negotiator with good strategic insight. Arjen's approach can be described as firm and sharp when necessary, but above all he acts strategic and result-oriented.

Areas of expertise

Employment law, restructuring and employee participation

collective redundancies/restructuring of companies
individual dismissal cases
advising on collective labour agreements and related disputes, redundancy packages and negotiations with trade unions
advisering rond overleg, adviestrajecten en geschillen met ondernemingsraden, waaronder het voeren van procedures bij kantonrechter en Ondernemingskamer
expert legal representation of works councils based on the Works Council Act
right to strike
advising on and litigation concerning non-compete clauses
pension/compulsory participation in sectoral pension funds

Corporate Law

disputes between shareholders, executive board and/or supervisory board
advising on management participation (e.g. in case of private equity transactions)
legal representation of statutory directors and senior management in case of (labour) disputes
D&O liability
acquisitions and acquisition disputes

Register of legal practice areas

Arjen Kampherbeek has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

employment law
corporate law

Pursuant to this registration, Arjen is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar (Nederlandse orde van advocaten).

Education

Dutch Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1988)
English Legal Methods, Cambridge University (GB)
Grotius postgraduate specialist Education in Commercial and Corporate Law
Postgraduate Education in Employment Law, EUR/Hugo Sinzheimer Institute
mediation training: Conflict Mediation Programme, Centrum voor Conflicthantering (CvC)

Memberships

Other positions

Member of the Discipline Council of The Hague (disciplinary court for the legal profession)
Arbitrator Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI)
Chairman of Stichting Belangenbehartiging Erfpachters Duingebied Ouddorp
Member/secretary Supervisory Board Ikazia Hospital Rotterdam (1995-2011 and 2014-2021)
Board member/secretary Kasteel van Rhoon Foundation (2011-2020)
Member of the Supervisory Board of P.A. van der Kooij Holding B.V. (2005-2013)

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