Area(s) of expertise:
Corporate transactions
Practice areas
- Corporate transactions
- Estate planning
Education
- Law, University of Utrecht, 2005
- Notarial Law, University of Utrecht
- Law, University of Cape Town
Viola van der Meer
Candidate-notary
Viola van der Meer is a senior deputy civil-law notary at
Kennedy Van der Laan. Viola studied Notarial Law and Law at the
University of Utrecht and at the University of Cape Town. She
joined Kennedy Van der Laan in 2011.
Viola has six years of experience in notarial corporate law and
estate planning. In the notarial law practice, which she conducts
together with Jan Schouten, she advises Dutch and foreign companies
and banks on cross-border reorganizations, acquisitions,
investments, joint ventures, securities, shareholder structures and
corporate governance.
In the field of estate planning she advises clients regarding
inheritance law, matrimonial property law and gift tax and
inheritance tax, also including the registration of real estate in
somebody's name after divorce or death, for, particularly,
Dutch clients with assets in France.
Viola has a great liking for everything French, which started
after she had worked for a few months in Paris in a French
civil-law notary's office.