Martijn Uijen

Studied law at the University of Amsterdam, has practiced law since 1995 and is a partner at Griffiths Advocaten. Martijn is first and foremost a seasoned transactional lawyer. He helps both multinationals and Dutch companies shape their (domestic or international) mergers and acquisitions, participations, joint ventures, commercial contracts and standard terms of business.
Martijn also regularly assists in restructuring and refinancing projects (including asset finance, loan finance and structured finance), bringing over 15 years of experience as an insolvency practitioner. Finally, Martijn has a robust litigation practice which focuses on corporate governance issues and disputes over contracts.

Martijn has particular expertise in handling matters relating to e-commerce, business process outsourcing, payment services, procurement, IT and privacy. Because of his excellent contacts with law firms all over the world, Martijn is always able to promptly arrange state-of-the-art assistance in practically any jurisdiction whenever transactions or lawsuits have any cross-border aspects.

Martijn has been an editor of Dutch professional journal Contracteren since its inception in 1999. He has authored numerous articles and he frequently lectures on drafting techniques.