Utrecht University
NautaDutilh
Marianne Waard-Preller was born in 1960. Her education and career developed in the Netherlands, where legal practice includes both lawyers and civil-law notaries.
She completed her university studies at Utrecht University, which was founded in 1636 and is among the oldest universities in the Netherlands. Her legal training there preceded her later work in corporate and notarial law.
Waard-Preller graduated from Utrecht University in 1983 and is recorded with the qualification Candidate Civil Law Notary, reflecting the notarial track of Dutch legal training. Civil-law notaries in the Netherlands are appointed public officers who draw up and authenticate legal deeds, and the candidate stage is the period of preparation toward that appointment.
Utrecht University, founded in 1636, is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. Its law studies gave her the academic grounding for a career that combined corporate advisory work with notarial practice.
Waard-Preller joined NautaDutilh in 1984 and became a partner in 1992. NautaDutilh is a Dutch law firm whose corporate practice advises a large, transaction-based international clientele.
Her practice centres on securities law and corporate law, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, demergers, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements, reorganisations, initial public offerings, corporate governance, European company law, and the legal affairs of semi-public organisations. She has advised a large number of schools on mergers within the framework of Dutch education legislation. She is also part of the firm's Energy and Natural Resources sector team and works in family-owned business matters.
She was appointed a civil-law notary in 1994, combining notarial law with her corporate practice. In the Netherlands, notarial work includes authenticating legal deeds and transactions that require a notary's formal involvement.
