Bart Hunnekens

Bart is Co-Head of our Employment, Pensions and Mobility team in the Netherlands. He has over a decade of experience supporting Dutch and overseas companies with employment issues including litigation. Clients appreciate his energetic attitude and commitment. Bart regularly works with North American and European businesses and entrepreneurs as they set up in the Netherlands. He is a member of the American Bar Association.

Bart's clients go to him for advice on contentious and non-contentious employment issues relating to restructurings and redundancies, insourcing and outsourcing, transfer of undertakings, and employee benefit issues arising out of transactions. He regularly supports overseas companies as they enter the Dutch market, including on immigration work. Bart will ensure you start with a strong foundation to launch your business and grow in the Netherlands.

International Expansion Guide

Our guide will help you to develop your expansion plans by providing answers to many of the most frequently asked legal and regulatory questions.

CV

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2015 - 2019 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2010 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries, The Netherlands

Career

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2015 - 2019 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2010 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries, The Netherlands

Education

2010 Grotius Specialisation training Employment law, Radboud University Nijmegen

2006 Degree in Dutch law, Maastricht University

Memberships & Associations

European Employment Lawyers Association
Dutch Association for Employment Law Lawyers
Dutch Academic Bureau of Taylor Wessing
Dutch organisation for Employment Law (Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht)
American Bar Association

Additional languages

Awards

Chambers 2025

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Experience

Providing regulatory advice to REWE Group relating to their cross border acquisition of Lekkerland Group

REWE Group on provision of cross border regulatory advice relating to the acquisition of Lekkerland, a multinational wholesale and distributor business. The team advised on all regulatory issues including permits, EHS, dangerous goods and product related requirements such as the Tobacco Directive. The team also provided an in depth analysis of all affected jurisdictions (Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland).

Press release

Dr. Jörg Henkel

Dieter Lang, LL.M.Eur.

Andreas Schütz, LL.M.

Dave Sieler

Bart Hunnekens

Apotex's EUR74m sale of subsidiaries to Aurobindo

Apotex on the sale of six European subsidiaries in Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Spain, to Aurobindo for EUR74 million. This highly complex transaction involved the share transfer of subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions being co-ordinated and managed by our UK team. We simultaneously advised on a multitude of business separation, ongoing product supply agreements and IP licences for the European business to continue operating after being removed from the Apotex group.

Colin McCall

Simon Cohen

Tasmina Goraya, PhD

Jason Rawkins

Simon Jupp

Bart Hunnekens

Roos Seesing