HOLTROP S.L.P at corporate counsel exchange April 2012

Flights, rooms and of course the event are booked: we will be attending the 6th Corporate Counsel Exchange as a solution provider on 23rd - 25th of April 2012 in the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel in London. We're looking forward to it.

We is:

Piet Holtrop was born in the Netherlands, raised in Germany, and studied International Law in the Netherlands. He started his career as a corporate counsel at Kempen & Co Merchant Bank in Amsterdam in the late nineties, and lives in Spain since 2000, where is admitted at the Bar as an Attorney at Law (Abogado). He founded HOLTROP S.L.P Transaction and Business Law in 2008. Piet is multilingual and practices law in English, Spanish German and Dutch, but communicates comfortably in some other languages too. He likes to resolve complex issues in tight timeframes, and enjoys the personal contact with his client

Abel Garriga is a Spanish Attorney at Law based in Barcelona, Spain since 1995. After working in several medium sized firms, he joined HOLTROP S.L.P Transaction & Business Law as a Partner in 2011, to boost his negotiation practice and to reinforce the Firm’s litigation capacity. Abel focuses on the interface between IP law and technology. Abel provides hands on legal advice in English, French Spanish and Catalan, and feels comfortable in addressing legal and communication issues arising from intercultural environments. Abel is thorough, and balances speed, rigor, quality and agility. He reframes problems to get to the bottom of things.

We assist international clients in takeovers of Spanish companies in a wide array of sectors, from vineyards to electric power plants. 

Regulatory affairs of Spanish Electricity Sector, with emphasis on renewable energies: We are currently representing over 1000 clients in a class action against the Spanish State for retroactively changing Feed in Tariffs.

Intellectual property and information technology issues: we are regularly invited to share our opinion on these issues in media platforms. Our clients are Spanish and international companies, some of which are listed.

We like to invent solutions that simplify things, and cherish independent thinking. 

We're looking forward to meeting the fellow group members of the LinkedIn group, and of course all other attendees at the Corporate Counsel Exchange!

UPDATE 27-04-12: The event is over and here we were... looks a bit funny if you don't see the surrounding, nonetheless we had some very constructive meetings in this little booth:

 
We met a lot of interesting people, had some promising meetings with delegates and are looking forward to meeting you all again next year!
Brgds to all,
Abel & Piet