Background
Johanna Kleijn was born in 1961. Her documented academic path led her to the Netherlands in the mid-1980s, when she studied at Leyden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands.
Johanna Kleijn was born in 1961. Her documented academic path led her to the Netherlands in the mid-1980s, when she studied at Leyden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands.
Johanna Kleijn studied at Leyden University in 1986 and 1987 and obtained the qualification of Candidate Civil Law Notary. The university, now known as Leiden University, was founded on 8 February 1575 by William of Orange during the Eighty Years' War, the uprising of the northern provinces against Spanish rule.
Leiden's law faculty includes a notarial law section, which teaches family, corporate and real estate law, the fields that underpin notarial practice. In the Netherlands, a candidate civil-law notary is a trainee in the notarial profession, and civil-law notaries draw up authentic deeds for matters such as property transfers, company formation and wills.
Johanna Kleijn is a partner at Resident Associates, where she works as a lawyer. In law practice, a partner is a senior member who shares in the management of the practice, and her partnership role places her among its senior professionals.