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Irene Steltenpool appointed as civil-law notary at Eversheds Faasen

Irene Steltenpool of Eversheds Faasen, a firm of lawyers and civil-law notaries, has been appointed civil-law notary by Royal Decree. Ms Steltenpool has been jointly responsible in the past years for expanding the firm’s notarial advisory practice. That practice now consists of seven (candidate and appointed) civil-law notaries officiating in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Together with civil-law notary Mick van Waateringe, Irene Steltenpool, as a senior candidate civil-law notary for Eversheds Faasen, established the civil-law notary’s office in Amsterdam three years ago. She herself has referred to the recent Crown appointment as a milestone in her professional career: “Our firm-wide approach has given rise to a business case for our notarial advisory practice that justified my official appointment. Being sworn in is the pinnacle of my personal ambitions, as well as a reward for all our hard work in the past few years, which I had to (and indeed wanted to) combine with raising my two children. In sum, I am very pleased with this appointment.”

Ms Steltenpool also became a partner at Eversheds Faasen on 1 October of this year. In 2005, she switched to the then law firm of Faasen en Partners, which had been set up in 2002. She joined the firm in order to establish a notarial advisory practice in Amsterdam. Ms Steltenpool, who specialises in national and international corporate law and notarial corporate law, characterises the approach of her practice and that of her colleagues as pragmatic, result-oriented and close to the client. After graduating in Dutch and Notarial Law from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, she worked in the corporate law practice of various other law firms until 2005, namely Holland Van Gijzen and Trenité Van Doorne.