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Mark Goorts

Mark Goorts

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  • Eindhoven Netherlands
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Mark is a partner in our Dispute & Investigations team. He specialises in dispute resolution with a strong focus on corporate disputes and corporate litigation. Mark also has considerable experience in international commercial dispute resolution, including in arbitration.

Mark has over a decade of experience in various types of litigation and dispute resolution, including shareholders’ disputes, directors’ and supervisors’ liability and post M&A discussions. He also advised on a wide variety of international commercial disputes (including in arbitration), and regularly advises management boards, supervisory boards and shareholders regarding rights, obligations and strategy in contentious situations. Mark furthermore focuses on ESG-related litigation as well as collective actions.
 
 

Expertise

Services and Groups

Commercial & consumer contracts
Disputes & investigations
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
Corporate litigation & post-M&A disputes
International arbitration
Class actions, collective redress & mass consumer claims

Sectors

Business & professional services

CV

Since 2024 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2015-2023 Lawyer, Taylor Wessing
2011 - 2015 Lawyer, Banning N.V. in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2018 Grotius Academy (post LLM) Corporate and Business law (Grotius specialisatie-opleiding (post LLM) Vennootschap en Onderneming)
2014 Dutch Bar Professional Education
2011 LLM European Law, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
2011 LLM International and European Law, Radboud University Nijmegen
2011 LLM Dutch Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2009 LLB International and European Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2009 LLB Dutch Law, Radboud University Nijmegen

Career

Since 2024 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2015-2023 Lawyer, Taylor Wessing
2011 - 2015 Lawyer, Banning N.V. in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Education

2018 Grotius Academy (post LLM) Corporate and Business law (Grotius specialisatie-opleiding (post LLM) Vennootschap en Onderneming)
2014 Dutch Bar Professional Education
2011 LLM European Law, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
2011 LLM International and European Law, Radboud University Nijmegen
2011 LLM Dutch Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2009 LLB International and European Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2009 LLB Dutch Law, Radboud University Nijmegen

Publications

Artikel 6:166 BW: onbekend maakt onbemind? (co-author): AV&S, 2012, 2012/21
De Europese stichting: terug naar de tekentafel (co-author): NtEr, 2013, 2013/3

Tijdschrift Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk 224. Skanska: de opmars van het ondernemingsbegrip in de civiele procespraktijk, 2019/4 SDU

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Experience

Advising Invesco Real Estate on major international partnership with Westmont

We have advised Invesco Real Estate (Invesco), the global real estate investment manager, on its new strategic long-term partnership with Westmont, one of the largest private hotel property owners and operators with approximately 400 hotels in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Westmont will operate and co-invest in the portfolio of 13 IHG branded hotels located in key cities in Germany and the Netherlands.

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