Six Advocaten

Number of partners: 5
Number of lawyers: 11
Languages: Dutch, English, German

Firm Overview:
SIX Advocaten was launched in 2008 by five lawyers, all coming from leading international law firms. Several other real estate experts joined SIX Advocaten over the years and its team now consist of 11 lawyers. Through the high level of expertise of its partners, spanning all fields of real estate (including all types of regulatory law and procurement law) SIX is able to tackle all aspects of a real estate project, from the first acquisition and development to the end user. SIX is a low leverage and tightly knit firm that aims to always provide its clients with the most experienced lawyer for the job at hand. SIX has a 50-50 litigation and transaction/advise practice and is well equipped to assist its clients in both litigation and deal negotiations.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Inner City Restructuring:
■Representation of the project developer, with respect to the redevelopment of the Market Quarter in Amsterdam in order to create a new integrated Food Market at the North side of the area, freeing up space at the South side for a large new urban area, consisting of 1,500 houses and leisure.
Partner: Wouter Post

■Representation of the project developer: multidisciplinary cooperation across the firm in dealing with all legal issues in relation to a high impact inner city development of the build of 90-meter-high tower with hotel with 260 rooms and 317 housing accommodations
Partners: Fabian Horsting and Irma van den Berg

Construction, Architect Law:
■Contracting and litigation on behalf of various architects:
Partner: Wouter Post

■Litigation on behalf of the seller of Eindhoven’s’ first skyscraper in respect of claim buyer for EUR 5-10 mio damages to the façade due to design and construction failures.
Partner: Fabian Horsting

Real Estate Portfolios:
■Assistance of major law firms and leading corporate boutique firms with respect to all real estate issues (title, lease and regulatory) that come up in transactions.
Partners: Jeroen Kist, Irma van den Berg, Femke Borst

Infrastructure:
■Representation of a government body as project lawyer in a major infrastructural project, which consists of adapting existing roads/junctions and constructing a new provincial road with connections to existing national roads. In addition to design and construction, the contract includes management and long term maintenance.
Partner: Fabian Horsting
■Representation of a government body with respect to the maintenance of its waterway network (dredging contracts, hydraulic engineering).
Partner: Fabian Horsting

Built to Suit/Lease:
■Representation of a hotel chain with respect to the development agreement and lease of a hotel in the Hourglass building at the Amsterdam South Axis and with respect to the Rotterdam FIRST building next to Rotterdam central station):
Partners: Leon Burgersdijk and Femke Borst

Procurement:
■Assistance of the municipality of Amsterdam in respect of the tender procedure for the land creation project in relation to the creation of a new island (IJburg2) in the Amsterdam IJ river:
Partner: Fabian Horsting
■Assistance of a US/Dutch consortium in their tender with respect of redevelopment of the Amsterdam Bijlmer prison:
Partner: Fabian Horsting

Student Housing & Hotels:
■Assistance in terms of zoning and planning with respect to the transformation of an office building into the biggest hostel in Amsterdam (1,500 beds):
Partner: Hanneke Ellerman
■Assistance in terms of zoning and planning with respect to for the transformation of a hotel in the city centre of Amsterdam:
Partner: Irma van den Berg
■Advising the developer in respect of a DBFOM project of a large student accommodation facility located at the ‘Houthaven’ (the former wood harbour) in Amsterdam:
Partner: Leon Burgersdijk

Health Care:
■Six counts several health care providers amongst its clients and has assisted them in a variety of matters, ranging from subsidy cases for youth- and health care institutions and procurement issues to drafting a standard form contract for housing and health care, renegotiating long term leases due to the changes in legislation with respect to health care and the acquisition and development of care homes.
Partners: Leon Burgersdijk, Irma van den Berg and Femke Borst

Retail:
■Sole external counsel for owner of an outlet shopping mall in all matters relating to its tenants and the work relating to the expansion of the outlet centre (both planning permissions and constructional law as well as contracting new tenants):
Partners: Femke Borst
■Lease negotiations and advise on behalf of Calzedonia and PVH:
Partner: Femke Borst

Key Clients:
Bouwfonds Property Development (BPD), CBRE Global Investors, AM Real Estate Development, Amvest, Amrath Hotels, Paribus, MN Services, Pensionfund for Metal and Technology Industry, municipality of Amsterdam, Amvest, Ballast Nedam
Contact: Lawyer: Femke Borst / Fabian Horsting
Tel: +31 20 305 74 10
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]