Marloes Brans

Practice Areas

Marloes is Head of Climate Risk & Sustainability and specialises in environmental law and spatial planning law. She advises and litigates for the industry, project developers, investors and government bodies, and has extensive experience in liaising with the authorities (environmental permission authorities, the SZW inspectorate, and the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate).

CLIMATE ADAPTION

Marloes is leading the public law team in due diligence and contract negotiations in M&A and transactions. She regularly publishes on these topics, speaks at national and international conferences, and teaches lawyers and at universities. Marloes e.g. spoke on legal and policy instruments regarding water-related climate change adaptation in the Netherlands for the American Bar Association and at Columbia Law School, New York City. In 2019 she co-authored the first overview article on climate adaptation in urban planning legislation and regulations in the Netherlands and further she has several leading publications to her name on subjects such as the new Dutch Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet). She is recommended in Who's Who Legal as an expert in the categories Environment and Climate Change. In 2013 she worked at the New York City office.

Marloes is Chair of the Environmental Law Practice Group of Lex Mundi, a worldwide network of law firms which Houthoff is also a member of. Marloes is a board member of the Dutch Construction Lawyers Association, and a board member of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet Fund. She was a member of the Reflection board for sample cards on the New Environment and Planning Act of the Dutch Municipalities Association.