Jan-Mathijs Petrus Hermans

Background

Jan-Mathijs Petrus Hermans was born in January 1965. His documented professional life has unfolded in the Netherlands, where he studied law, qualified as a civil-law notary and has practised in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

His documented language skills include English, French and German. His practice has included work for multinational clients, and these language skills correspond with that international dimension of his work.

Education

Hermans studied at Leyden University, the older spelling of Leiden University, where he earned a master's degree in notarial law. His civil-law notary qualification dates from 1988.

Leiden University was founded in 1575 by William I of Orange as a Protestant institution, created to educate citizens for the church and government of the northern Netherlands. It is the oldest university in the Netherlands and has long been known for its law faculty and scholarly tradition.

Career

Hermans has practised law mainly in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. His record includes a partnership at Loeff & Van der Ploeg in Rotterdam. That practice, Loeff en van der Ploeg Advocaten & Notarissen, was founded by J.A.L.M. Loeff and later passed into Loeff Claes Verbeke. Loeff Claes Verbeke's successor, Loyens & Loeff, was created in 2000 through a merger and is now headquartered in Rotterdam.

From 2010 to 2016, Hermans was a partner in the Corporate and Finance department of Simmons & Simmons in Amsterdam. Simmons & Simmons was founded in 1896 by the twin brothers Edward and Percy Simmons. The firm had been based in the Netherlands since 2002 and opened its Amsterdam office in 2007, placing his corporate practice in one of its major European centres.

From 1 April 2017 he has been an LLP member of Dentons Europe LLP and a partner in the Netherlands practice of Dentons in Amsterdam. He works as a civil-law notary and corporate adviser, specialising in corporate, real estate law, finance, security and enforcement. Dentons was formed on 28 March 2013 through the combination of SNR Denton, Salans and Fraser Milner Casgrain. His documented clients include Procter & Gamble, Upfield and Unibail-Rodamco in the Netherlands.

Membership

Hermans is a member of the Royal Dutch Association of Civil-law Notaries, the professional body that brings together the civil-law notaries of the Netherlands. Civil-law notaries are appointed by the Crown and provide authentic deeds and legal advice in property, corporate and family matters.

• Member as a civil-law notary

  Royal Dutch Association of Civil-law Notaries , Netherlands

  1988 - present

References

• Dentons: Jan-Mathijs Hermans Firm profile describing his role as a partner and civil-law notary in the Netherlands practice, his specialisms, and the multinational clients he advises.
• Companies House officer appointments: Jan-Mathijs Petrus Hermans Official UK register entry recording his date of birth as January 1965 and his LLP appointments at Simmons & Simmons LLP (2010 to 2016) and Dentons Europe LLP (from 2017).