Bastiaan Kemp
Senior Associate - Attorney at Law
Bastiaan Kemp, attorney at law, is a member of the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Amsterdam office. He focuses on corporate law, including corporate governance, corporate litigation and arbitration.
Bastiaan works in high profile corporate governance cases. His clients include private equity firms, listed corporates and their Dutch based subsidiaries, investment firms, corporate service providers, healthcare organisations and sports organisations.
Recent matters that Bastiaan has worked on include representing:
- a market leading company active in the online food ordering and delivery market in ICC arbitration
- a specialty chemicals multinational in NAI arbitration proceedings
- a seller in post-M&A ICC arbitration proceedings with an European bank
- an event driven investor in litigation revolving around AkzoNobel
- a multilateral development bank in inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber
- a global operating service provider on several liability claims in various Dutch court proceedings
- the Dutch headquartered syncreon Group in its debt restructuring
Bastiaan is a Professor at Maastricht University. He also holds the position of vice-academic director of the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies, is a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Corporate Law Monthly Review (Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht), is a Fellow at the Zuidas Institute for Financial Law and Company Law of the Free University of Amsterdam and a Member of the corporate law advisory committee of the Dutch Bar Association and the Royal Association of Dutch Civil Law Notaries.
Work highlights
Contributions
Memberships
Dutch Bar Association
Ius Commune Research School
Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies
Dutch Commercial Law Association (VHR)
The Dutch Corporate Litigation Association (VCL)
The Dutch Civil Procedure Law Association (NVvP)
Qualifications
Thesis (PhD), "Shareholder responsibility: The position and role of the shareholder and the shareholders meeting", Maastricht University, 2015
Dutch law, Maastricht University, 2013 (cum laude)
Publications
Kemp, B. (2022), Naar een werkbaar en realistisch model voor stakeholder governance en de rol van aandeelhouders daarin (oratie Maastricht), Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht 2022.
Kemp, B., Sinninghe Damsté, M.H.C. & Wiggers, L.W. (2022), Kroniek uitkoop en geschillenregeling, in: Geschriften vanwege de Vereniging voor Corporate Litigation 2020-2021, Deventer: Kluwer 2022
Kemp, B. (2021), Het besluit als rechtshandeling: de verhouding tussen het Nederlandse rechtspersonen- en vermogensrecht, in: J.M. de Jongh, B. Kemp, H. Koster & C.A. Schwarz (red.), Bestuursbesluiten, Deventer: Kluwer 2021
Kemp, B. & Renshof, S. (2020), The limited power to appoint and dismiss management board members in Dutch listed companies, European Company Law 2020
Kemp, B. & Sinninghe Damsté, M.H.C. (2020), Kroniek Enquêterecht 2019, in: Geschriften vanwege de Vereniging Corporate Litigation 2018-2019, Deventer: Kluwer 2020
