ABOUT ROBBERT TAN
Tan Advocatuur was founded in 2017 by Robbert Tan.
Before founding Tan Advocatuur, Robbert gained over nine years of experience with the top Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, in The Hague, London and Amsterdam. Aside from Supreme Court litigation, he specialises in complex litigation in (director) liability, company law, insolvency law and financial law cases. Robbert litigated in some of the most important class actions in the Netherlands, before the district courts, the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. Among those was the matter that led to the largest class action settlement in Europe to date.
Robbert was law clerk to the Disciplinary Council of the Amsterdam bar and a member of the States-Provincial of North-Holland. He is a member of the Dutch Association of Supreme Court Barristers in Civil Matters and the Dutch Association for Civil Law.
Robbert read law at the University of Utrecht (LL.B, LLM., both cum laude), and studied History of Art and Law at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge (United Kingdom). Next to law, art has his particular interest.
EXPERTISE
Supreme Court litigation, procedural law, tort law, company law
LANGUAGES
Dutch, English, French