We prefer to work together with our clients towards an end goal. Not just when litigation is imminent or other fires need to be put out, but especially in their day-to-day operations. Only when you pay real attention to your clients are you able to advise proactively and preventively. To spar. Does a fire threaten anyway? Then the lines are short and we think out-of-the-box: there is always an alternative solution for every issue.

Lawyer, founder of Marxman Advocaten, partner, member of the executive board and within it responsible for Commercial and Marketing.

Bas is a valuable sparring partner for entrepreneurs in a variety of areas and has years of experience in assisting in (international) transactions and various restarts after bankruptcy in a variety of insolvency processes. He has also carried out extensive restructuring and corporate recovery processes and has provided numerous companies with an effective approach to (liquidity) problems in both the short and long term.

His broad orientation makes Bas an advisor and manager who knows how to combine an all-round strategy with legal implications in projects. He boasts experience as a receiver and administrator in medium and large bankruptcies and moratoriums. In the past, Bas held senior financial and statutory management positions in (international) organisations and developed legal and financial expertise for more than 25 years.

After completing his law studies, Bas also completed two specialisation courses at the Grotius Academy, namely Insolvency Law (1997) and Company and Corporate Law (2010). Bas is a member of INSOLAD (the Association of Insolvency Lawyers) and completed the Insolad Grotius postgraduate continuing education course Financial Economics for Insolvency Lawyers in 2014.

Bas has registered the following main areas of law in the Register of Jurisdictions of the Dutch Bar Association: Insolvency Law and Corporate Law. Pursuant to this registration, he is obliged to obtain ten training points in each registered main area of law each calendar year according to the standards of the Dutch Bar Association.

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