Sjoerd Yntema

Sjoerd represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes. He graduated with a master’s degree in civil law and corporate law and subsequently started his career as a lecturer in corporate law at Leiden University, until he joined AMS Advocaten in 2019. Alongside his work as a lawyer, Sjoerd works as a supervisor of master's theses at the University of Amsterdam.

Specialism

Sjoerd specialises in Corporate litigation and deals with cases that take place within the legal entity as well as disputes with external parties. Sjoerd acts for both national and international clients in legal proceedings, at first instance and on appeal, both in preliminary relief proceedings and in proceedings on the merits. Sjoerd completed the Corporate litigation specialisation course at the Grotius Academy in 2023. This is the most comprehensive and complete postgraduate course in the field of Corporate litigation.

Examples of recent work

• Attorney in a variety of inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Section of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal;
• Representation of a director and shareholder of a property developer in preliminary relief proceedings concerning compliance with unbundling agreements;
• Attorney for buyers and sellers in various post-M&A disputes;
• Advisor to the disposing majority shareholder of a medium-sized ICT service provider;
• Attorney for a director being sued in an extensive directors' liability case;
• Attorney for a foreign agent in proceedings against a large Dutch company about the termination of an agency agreement in which the North Holland District Court ordered the principal to pay outstanding commission and damages;
• Attorney for a foreign entity in proceedings concerning the classification of a deposit as a share premium payment or monetary loan in which the North Holland District Court granted the full claimed amount of approximately €800,000.

Areas of legal competence register

Sjoerd is a member of the Corporate Litigation Association and the Young Trial Lawyers Association. He has registered corporate law and civil procedural law as his principal areas of legal competence in the Netherlands Bar (NOvA) Areas of Legal Competence Register. On the basis of this registration, he is obliged to obtain ten training credits in each registered principal area of legal competence every calendar year in accordance with the standards of the NOvA.