Representing a listed Canadian company in an international multi-million dollar trade dispute, seizing assets and litigating in summary proceedings with subsequent directors' liability proceedings.
about Yvette
Yvette is one of the co-founders of Florent. She started her career in 1993 at Höcker Rueb Doeleman. She co-heads Florent’s Dispute Resolution practice. She has over 30 years’ experience as practitioner, mostly in high-profile and complex (cross-border) matters. Yvette is also trusted boardroom advisor, acts on appointment of the Enterprise Chamber and is certified mediator.
Expertise
Strong track record on pre-litigation and dispute resolution work, including directors’ duties and liability, corporate governance, securities’ litigation and class-actions, often with a cross-border element. Yvette has extensive experience in large corporate investigations, also at the intersection of insolvency law. She advises various (listed) companies, NGO’s and boards.
What else
Yvette speaks Dutch, English and French. She regularly contributes to academic publishing and practice guides, is frequently invited to lecture in the Netherlands and abroad, and lecturer of the post-graduate Grotius corporate litigation. Yvette is on the advisory board of the IBA Litigation Committee and member of the NOvA/KNB committee on company law, advisor to the legislator. She is a member of Dutch Associations on Corporate Litigation (VCL), Procedural Law (NVvP) and Federation of Mediators (MfN). Yvette is ranked both in Chambers and Legal 500.