Ronald Hogewind

HYS & Co. Advocaten is a medium-sized Utrecht office highly specialized in construction and real estate and related areas of law (such as corporate and energy law). This concerns everything that has to be developed, built, operated and transferred. From residential and commercial real estate, educational and healthcare institutions, to technical installations and area development. Sometimes it concerns a single aspect, such as a tender, planning, a construction or rental contract, but it can also cover a life phase or even the entire life cycle of a project, from initiation and financing to delivery and operation afterwards. Our staff have all gained many years of expertise, which is widely made available in the execution of each assignment. Our office has both an advisory and litigation practice. We consider litigation as a last resort. Our work is often aimed at preventing this by providing solution-oriented advice or drawing up clear contracts.

Ronald has been practicing law since 1995. After graduating in Dutch Law and International Law at the University of Amsterdam in 1994, Ronald has acquired extensive expertise in construction, project development and real-estate transactions in many varieties, bonding both civil law (e.g. procurement and contracts) and public law (e.g. permitting, zoning planning) in his work. Before co-founding HYS & Co. Advocaten, he worked for the Municipality of Amsterdam, as head of legal of an international project development company (TCN Property Projects) and was a salary-partner at Lexence law firm in Amsterdam. Ronald furthermore attained the highly regarded post-academic degree Master of Real Estate (MRE) at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate in 2002. Through his extensive knowledge and expertise (both locally, nationally and internationally) of the entire development-construction-investment -exploitation life cycle of projects – whether these are residential, commercial or industrial – he is well placed to assist in any stage and at any level, both on behalf of employers or contractors alike.