Frans Crousen

Background

Frans Crousen was born in 1962. His documented life unfolded in the Netherlands, where he studied law at the University of Utrecht, was admitted to the bar in Amsterdam in 1988, and built a career as a corporate lawyer.

Education

Crousen studied law at the University of Utrecht, completing his studies in 1986. Founded in 1636, Utrecht is among the oldest universities in the Netherlands, and its law programme formed part of that long academic tradition.

He later completed an advanced course in energy law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2008 and 2009. The Vrije Universiteit was founded in 1880 on Calvinist principles and has since grown into one of the major universities in Amsterdam.

His admission to the Amsterdam bar in 1988 marked his entry into the legal profession, which he pursued through the firms described in his career.

Career

Crousen's documented career began with the Amsterdam firm Stibbe, Blaisse & De Jong, where he was a partner. Stibbe traces its origins to an Amsterdam firm established in 1911. In 1991 the Amsterdam firm Stibbe, Blaisse & De Jong merged with Simont & Simont of Brussels, creating Stibbe & Simont, which became one of the prominent law firms in the Benelux region.

Later he became a partner in the corporate team of Fieldfisher in Amsterdam. He helped set up the Amsterdam office in 2017 with four colleagues and serves as Co-Managing Partner of Fieldfisher Netherlands. His principal registered practice area in the Netherlands Bar's register of legal practice areas is corporate law, with mergers and acquisitions and company law as secondary areas.

Together with partner Marcel Willems, he has developed particular experience serving clients from German-speaking countries doing business in the Netherlands.

Membership

Crousen was admitted to the Amsterdam bar in 1988. The Dutch bar regulates the legal profession in the Netherlands and maintains a register of legal practice areas. Lawyers who register a principal practice area must obtain a set number of training credits each calendar year in that area, and Crousen, whose principal area is corporate law, is subject to this requirement.

• Admitted to practise at the Amsterdam bar

  Dutch Bar Association , Netherlands

  1988

References

• Frans-Jozef Crousen, Fieldfisher profile Firm profile describing his corporate law practice in Amsterdam, his role in establishing the Fieldfisher Amsterdam office in 2017, and his position as Co-Managing Partner of Fieldfisher Netherlands.