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Freerk Volders appointed as civil-law notary at Eversheds Faasen in Rotterdam

With the appointment of Freerk Volders, Eversheds Faasen, a firm of lawyers and civil-law notaries, has made an important step towards expending its notarial advisory practice in the region of Rotterdam. This is the second appointment of a civil-law notary at Eversheds Faasen this quarter. Mr Volders was sworn in on 3 December 2008.

After graduating in Notarial Law in Groningen, Freerk Volders has now established a “modern civil-law notary’s practice” in Rotterdam with six staff members, including one civil-law notary and two candidate civil-law notaries. “For Eversheds Faasen, Rotterdam is an important expanding market. It is therefore the firm’s ambition in the coming years to expand rapidly in the Rotterdam region”.

Together with the civil-law notary’s practice in Amsterdam, Eversheds Faasen has now within a short period established notarial advisory practice in corporate law operating in the Netherlands and abroad, that works together closely with the lawyers of the rapidly expanding firm.

“I am inspired by working with entrepreneurs who are not afraid to take risks. So I guess it was just a matter of time before I myself also became an entrepreneur”, is how Freerk Volders explains his drive to become a civil-law notary. “At Eversheds Faasen I was given every opportunity to develop”. Mr Volders started working for the firm in 2007, focusing in particular on clients in Rotterdam. “My business plan to justify a fully-fledged civil-law notary’s firm in Rotterdam was ready in the middle of this year and my application for appointment then soon gained momentum. By 24 November my appointment was a fact”.

Freerk Volders, who joined Eversheds Faasen at the end of 2007, previously worked as a candidate civil-law notary at Loyens & Loeff (2003-2007) and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (1997-2003). In addition to working as a publicist for SDU Uitgevers, he is also a lecturer for the civil-law notaries’ specialist course of the CPO (Permanent Professional Development) and for the NOB.