Martin Brink

Martin Brink graduated from the University of Utrecht and has been an Attorney-at-Law since 1975. He has an extensive degree of experience within the area of Corporate Law – he advises corporations on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures (strategic alliances), takeover defences and provides guidance to governing boards regarding their duties and implementation of policy. He also covers questions relating to employee participation, mutual relations between partnerships and legal entities, the protection of shareholders, conflicts of interest, liability of company directors and supervisory board members and piercing the corporate veil over liability where it comes to apportioning responsibility or investigating the corporate accounts.
Conflicts between shareholders, legal entities, within partnerships or associations also come under his remit. As does the right to instigate an inquiry into the state of affairs of a company and buy out procedures under the arbitration rules of Book 2 DCC.

Martin Brink obtained his Ph.D. in November 2008 at Maastricht University on the topic “Due diligence”.

He lectures on the right to instigate an inquiry into the state of affairs of a company at the Grotius Academie.
He is a standing annotator for the magazine “Jurisprdentie Onderneming & Recht (“JOR”) and was the author of the column “Game rules for the Boardroom” which can be found in the magazine FD Strategie.
He is a Deputy Judge of the Amsterdam Lower District Court and a Deputy Justice in the s’-Gravenhage Court of Appeal.
He is both co-founder and a long-serving member on the board of the Foreign Bankers Association in the Netherlands and a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands. He has also been a member of the International Bar Association since 1981.

Martin Brink is regularly called upon to provide binding third-party arbitration (he is a member of he Nederlands Arbitrage Institute) and is registered as a certified mediator with the Nederlands Mediation Institute (NMI) and the International Mediation Institute (IMI). This enables him to mediate labour disputes, commercial disputes, disputes over share valuation, disputes arising from compliance or non-compliance of warranties and also disputes concerning the termination of joint ventures. He has experience in larger scale mediation such as disputes between municipal authorities, large companies or institutions. Martin Brink also formed part of the Expert Group Flexibilisering BV – law, which was established to advise on the revision of Dutch law on private companies by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

He is also a sworn translator of Dutch into English and English into Dutch

Attached you will find a list of publications.