Partner, Civil law notary

Jolande van Loon

Specialisation

The focus of Jolande's practice is corporate and real estate law but she also has experience in estate planning. Her great team consists of 22 people with different areas of expertise. Half of her team deals with corporate law (governance, reorganizations but sometimes also a cross-border merger) and the other half specializes in the niche practice of energy-related real estate, such as wind farms, solar, and the establishment of building rights for cables and pipelines, substations and heat-cold storage.
Jolande is a member of the notarial specialist associations EPN (estate planners) and the IBA (International Bar Association).

From 2005 to 2017, Jolande served as a disciplinary judge in the Notarial Practice Chamber (disciplinary supervision of notaries) for the districts of Rotterdam, Dordrecht and The Hague.
From 2017 to September 2023, Jolande was a member of the Board of the Rotterdam Department of the Royal Notarial Association (KNB), the last three years of which she served as President (similar to the Dean of the Bar Association) for this District, and thus was also a delegate to the KNB's Council of Members and representative of the notarial profession in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Crime Control Platform. From the Council of Members, she served on various committees.

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

Jolande enjoys dedicating herself to social institutions, including:

  • from 2003 to 2015 as vice chairman of the Supervisory Board of the SWK-Groep Foundation (child care and welfare, now called Gro-Up), at that time among the four largest child care and welfare organizations in the Netherlands.
  • from 2006 to 2013 as a board member of the Children's Adriaan Foundation (Rijndam Hospital).
  • from 2013 to 2016 as a board member (secretary) of the Paulus Church in Rotterdam.
  • from 2018 to 2021 as a board member of the Friends of Rijndam Rehabilitation Foundation.
  • since 2005 to the present as a board member (Financial Committee) of the Stichting Fonds Willem van Rede (Museum Boijmans) and as a member of the Boijmans Society.
  • as a member of the Rotterdam Legal Society.
  • Member of the Rotary Club Kralingen since 2013 (serving as president in 2017) and is/was active there on various committees.
  • joined Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Business Law, as thesis supervisor of Master students since 2023.
  • other memberships: the business circle of the Kunsthal, of Blijdorp Zoo, of the business network of Golf Course The Dutch, and of business network VNO-NCW.

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