Advocaten van Waerde

What Advocaten van Waerde does

Advocaten van Waerde is a Dutch boutique law firm headquartered in Amersfoort, founded in 2017 by Yvonne Weernink. The firm specializes in labor law (arbeidsrecht) and real estate law (vastgoedrecht), serving a heterogeneous client base that includes small and medium-sized businesses, larger companies, organizations, startups, and individual clients. Following the founder's retirement effective January 1, 2026, the firm operates under three active lawyer partners — Marc Gerritsen, Maartje van den Berg, and Ramon Rila — with a total headcount of five employees.

The firm is structured as a samenwerkingsverband (collaboration) comprising four separate B.V.s, with each lawyer-partner housed in an individual corporate entity for liability and tax purposes. Service delivery follows the traditional Dutch legal services model of hourly billing for advisory, contract drafting, litigation, and mediation across its two core practice areas. Geographic reach is centered on the Amersfoort region but extends to clients located across the Netherlands and abroad, and the firm maintains an active publishing presence through approximately 51 pages of blog content covering labor, real estate, and general legal topics.

The firm has no external investors and no institutional or private equity capital, operating entirely on internally generated fee income. No revenue, billing rates, or client roster is publicly disclosed, and there is no indication of technology platform, automation tooling, or AI integration in the service delivery model.

Name

Advocaten van Waerde

Legal name

Advocaten van Waerde

Website

https://advocaten-van-waerde.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Advocaten van Waerde is a Dutch boutique law firm in Amersfoort specializing in labor and real estate law, serving SMBs, organizations, startups, and individuals through three active lawyer partners within a four-B.V. collaboration structure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110), Offices of Lawyers (54111)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Real Estate & Construction Law (BPAHAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD), Litigation & Dispute Resolution (BPAHAAAB)

Keywords

• Legal advisory services
• Labor law
• Real estate law
• Contract law
• Litigation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Amersfoort

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Legal Advisory & Litigation Services: Professional legal services billed by the hour or through retainer arrangements for clients seeking advice and representation in employment law, real estate law, contract law, corporate law, automotive law, and debt collection matters.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Advocaten van Waerde is a Dutch law firm in Amersfoort delivering specialized legal advisory and litigation services in employment law (arbeidsrecht, including civil servant law and education law), real estate law (vastgoedrecht, including construction, rental, purchase/sale, and neighbor disputes), contract law, corporate law, automotive/car law, and debt collection for businesses, organizations, and private individuals. Services are billed hourly or via retainer and delivered by three partner lawyers.

Product overview

Advocaten van Waerde is a law firm offering legal services through a portfolio of specialized practice areas. The firm provides labor law (arbeidsrecht) services including civil servant law and education law; real estate law (vastgoedrecht) covering construction law, rental law, property transactions, and neighbor disputes; contract law; debt collection; car law; and corporate law. The firm operates as a unified practice where clients receive specialized legal advice and litigation services across these interconnected legal domains. The practice areas are handled by three partner attorneys: Marc Gerritsen focuses on labor law, Maartje van den Berg and Ramon Rila handle real estate and contract matters, with Ramon also specializing in car law.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Arbeidsrecht (Labor Law) Legal advisory and litigation on employment matters for employers and employees, covering employee rights, employer obligations, dismissal, non-compete clauses, probationary periods, and reorganization.
• Ambtenarenrecht (Civil Servant Law)

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Boels Zanders: Dutch mid-size firm with strong real estate, employment, and corporate-law practices serving SMEs and mid-market clients across the southern Netherlands. Comparable in partner-led service model and practice-area mix, though larger in scale.
• Dirkzwager advocaten: Dutch mid-size law firm combining real estate, employment, and corporate-law services for businesses and public-sector clients. Similar partner structure and SME-segment focus, with broader regional coverage (Arnhem/Nijmegen).
• Holla Poelmann Advocaten: Mid-size Dutch regional law firm based in Eindhoven with comparable practice mix in real estate, construction, employment, and corporate law for SMEs and individuals. Similar revenue band and partner-led model make it a direct structural comparable to Advocaten van Waerde.
• Van Iersel Luchtman Advocaten: Dutch regional firm specializing in real estate, construction, employment, and corporate law for SMEs, governments, and individuals. Closely comparable practice-area mix and client-segment orientation to Advocaten van Waerde.

Broad incumbents

• NautaDutilh: Top-tier Dutch full-service firm with significant real estate and employment practices. Operates at the largest end of the Dutch legal market; relevant as the high-end competitor Advocaten van Waerde's SME clients may escalate to.
• Houthoff: One of the largest Dutch full-service law firms with strong practices in real estate, employment, and corporate law. Competes for the same Dutch clients at the upper end of Advocaten van Waerde's addressable market, though at a vastly different scale and complexity tier.
• Taylor Wessing Netherlands: International firm with a Dutch practice covering employment, real estate, and corporate matters for mid-market and large clients. Comparable service categories but targets a higher-complexity, larger-deal client base than Advocaten van Waerde.
• CMS Netherlands: International full-service firm with a substantial Dutch office practicing real estate, employment, and corporate law for large corporates. Comparable on practice areas but serves a fundamentally different client segment than the SME/individual focus of Advocaten van Waerde.
• Kennedy Van der Laan: Amsterdam-based mid-size Dutch firm with established employment and real-estate practices serving corporate and institutional clients. Overlaps with Advocaten van Waerde on employment and real-estate matters but operates at materially larger scale and institutional client tier.

Others

• Legal Aid / Juridisch Loket (Het Juridisch Loket): Dutch government-subsidized first-line legal advisory service for individuals with legal questions on employment, housing, and consumer matters. Not a direct competitor but addresses the same individual-client need for accessible legal advice that Advocaten van Waerde serves, often as a funnel or alternative.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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