Jolande van Loon

Background

Jolande completed her studies in civil law at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1990, after which she immediately started at a small notary office in her hometown of Gouda where she practiced family law. There she completed an evening course in notarial law at the VU in Amsterdam within a year. In 1992, she transferred as a candidate notary to Nauta Dutilh in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. There she successfully completed professional training and the Grotius Academy Corporate Law. In 1996, Jolande joined Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam to work in a team consisting of lawyers and notaries and was seconded to New York for a few months in 1998/1999.

When the Loeff firm split in 1999 and Jolande preferred to continue working in Rotterdam rather than move with the rest of her team to Allen & Overy in Amsterdam, a number of former Nauta colleagues asked her to start a notarial practice within their recently established law firm, then consisting of 30 people. In the summer of 1999, she wrote her business plan and so, in 2000, Jolande was appointed a notary with Ploum Lodder Princen in Rotterdam, making her the first notary to start a notarial practice within an existing law firm under the new Notary Act.

Within the Ploum firm, Jolande has held various positions including board member of the partnership. The Ploum office now employs around 180 people, 35 of whom work in the notarial practice. The firm provides services in the fields of law, notarial practice and as trademark agents.

‘Jolande van Loon manages her department smooth and professionally.’ - Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Social interest

Various social organisations:

• Chairman of the board of:
  • Stichting Gemeentefonds der Hervormde Gemeente Rotterdam
  • Stichting Beleggingsfonds der Hervormde Gemeente Rotterdam
  • Stichting Grote Kerk Rotterdam
• Board member Stichting Fonds Willem van Rede (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen),
• Member of Boijmans Genootschap
• Member of Rotary club Rotterdam Kralingen (past president)
• Member of the International Bar Association (IBA).
• Member of the Rotterdam Legal Society (Rotterdams Juridisch Genootschap).
• Thesis supervisor of Master students at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Business Law.

Publications

• 'Ownership and registration of networks: the state of affairs', Dutch Journal of Energy Law, July/August 2008
• 'Ownership and registration of networks: Transition Act entered into force', Dutch Journal of Energy Law, August 2010
• 'Preadvies Nederlandse Vereniging voor Energierecht; Energie en Eigendom', in which Jolande advised with Prof. Ploeger on the registration of ownership of cable and pipeline works, December 2011

Track record