We are pleased to announce that Marleen Veenstra and Max Hetterscheidt were appointed counsel.
Frans Haak (partner finance): “We are pleased to announce the appointment of a counsel to our finance team. Marleen has worked as senior legal counsel at ABN AMRO Bank for the past 5 years. She was an attorney at Allen & Overy for almost 10 years prior to that. With her broad experience and solution-oriented attitude she is a perfect fit for our team.”
Gerben Smit (partner dispute resolution): “Max is an experienced and driven litigator. As counsel he will play a major role in the growth of our (international) litigation & arbitration practice. We are delighted with Max’ promotion.”
Marleen starts as counsel in our finance practice group. Her expertise includes finance and security rights, with a focus on syndicated loans, acquisition finance and general corporate lending. Marleen represents banks and other lenders as well as borrowers and has extensive experience in cross-border transactions. Marleen started her career as a lawyer at Allen & Overy. She then gained years of experience in-house as senior legal counsel at ABN AMRO Bank. With this transfer to Stek she returns to private practice as a lawyer.
Max works in the dispute resolution department. He has ample experience in cross border litigation & arbitration. His practice covers the full range of commercial litigation, with an emphasis on contractual and tort-law liability, the enforcement of court orders and private international law. Max regularly acts as counsel in (international) arbitration. He is recommended in the Legal 500 EMEA 2019 and 2021 for commercial litigation. Max started his career as lawyer at Houthoff and Allen & Overy and transferred to Stek at the beginning of 2018.
