David van Dijk named partner at NautaDutilh

Benelux law firm NautaDutilh has appointed David van Dijk MRE MRICS as a partner to strengthen its commercial real estate practice. Van Dijk is known as one of the top legal experts in the real estate sector in the Netherlands.

Van Dijk (1971) has been a lawyer since 1996 and a partner at Boekel de Nerée since 2002, where he has headed the real estate practice group in recent years.

The real estate market has been hard hit by the credit crunch, but NautaDutilh said it expects the market will recover in the near future and will require new legal solutions.

Examples of this could be developments in tendering procedures, an expected increase in public-private partnerships (PPP projects) and restructuring of
real estate portfolios. Municipalities will be faced with major challenges in area development in the longer term. It is also expected that real estate funds will once again increase in number and volume.