Max van Leyenhorst

Attorney at law

Specialisation

For the past ten years, Max has focussed his legal practice in the area of commercial dispute resolution. Amongst his clients are Dutch and foreign listed companies, as well as government agencies.
Max assists his clients in national and international arbitration and litigation. The disputes he handles often concern mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and/or contracts. Through this experience, Max has developed significant expertise in dispute management. His clients rely on his pragmatic approach to the identification and management of potential risks and disputes - aspects of business which, in practice, are commonly underestimated or recognised too late. In this way, he takes a commercial approach to his practice of law. Max is recommended in the international arbitration chapter of Legal500 (2008). Clients value his expertise in combination with his ability to turnover high quality work in a short space of time. Max is a registered mediator at the Netherlands Mediation Institute.

Education

Utrecht University (civil law)
Leiden University (tax law - bachelor)
Wayne State University, Detroit (corporate law and jurisprudence)

Experience

Max worked at a leading Dutch law firm NautaDutilh from 1999 until October 2009, in the Corporate Law and Corporate & Commercial Litigation departments. As from 2008 he was appointed to the senior role as Counsel in the arbitration section of NautaDutilh.
Max acts as a secretary to the board of editors of the Netherlands Journal on Arbitration (Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage). In addition, he regularly acts as secretary to arbitral tribunals, both in Dutch domestic arbitrations and international arbitrations. Since 2007, Max has lectured in arbitration law at the faculty of law of Leiden University. He regularly speaks at international conferences and as visiting lecturer at universities.
As per 1 October 2009, Max continues his practice as a partner of Legaltree.

Memberships

Dutch Association for Corporate Litigation
AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats)