Jelmer Feenstra – Lawyer
Jelmer works in the fields of corporate and insolvency law. He provides legal advice and conducts litigation on issues related to contracts, forms of collaboration, financing, securities and the enforcement of security interests and shareholder disputes. In addition, Jelmer advises companies, shareholders and directors on reorganisations, restructurings, relaunches and impending bankruptcies. Jelmer is regularly appointed as bankruptcy receiver by district courts. Notable appointments include the bankruptcies of Sneaker District and StoreShippers. Because of his experience as a bankruptcy receiver, he is in a good position to assess what receivers consider important. He readily uses this knowledge in the advice he provides.
Jelmer graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2013. After graduating, he started his career as a lawyer at AKD, where he specialised in disputes and litigation in the fields of financing, securities and insolvency. Before joining Labré in 2019, he spent a year and a half working as an in-house lawyer.
Jelmer graduated cum laude from the postgraduate specialisation training program Corporate- and Business Law at Grotius Academie. Grotius Academie is a collaboration between the law faculties of the universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Tilburg.
Jelmer is one of the co-founders and former treasurer of Vereniging Jonge Procesadvocaten; an association for young litigation attorneys.
Mr. Feenstra has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister): Insolventierecht and Ondernemingsrecht (Bestuurdersaansprakelijkheid en Vennootschappen). Based on this registration, he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.