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Sander Wiggers

Partner

Civil Law Notary

Sander Wiggers knows his stuff, he's very practical, and really manages the work very well in terms of seniority and delivery.
— Acritas 2021
About

Sander Wiggers is an experienced corporate lawyer with significant experience for non-Dutch clients and in cross border matters. In addition, Sander Wiggers is a Crown-appointed notary since 2006.

Sander’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings, corporate governance, joint ventures and includes setting up legal structures for employment participation programs. He performs his work with a hands-on mentality and provides effective and legally sound solutions. Sander has several clients who have stayed with him for more than a decade, underpinning his ability to translate the legal landscape into business-specific risks and opportunities.

Sander has 20+ years experience on corporate transactions, spin-offs and carve-outs. He has special focus and experience on complicated cross-border corporate restructurings. In addition, he has extensive experience in the field of advising on and setting up governance structures. Sander advises executive and non-executive boards on their duties and liabilities against the standards of good governance in the Netherlands.

Professional QualificationsNotaris registered with Koninklijke Notariële Beroepsorganisatie

EXPERIENCE

Areas of experience
  • Corporate legal advise
  • Corporate structuring
  • Corporate governance
  • Advising on governance structures and directors' duties and liabilities
  • Private equity
  • Employment participation programs
Key experience
  • Advising on and implementing several cross border mergers for a major Dutch financial institution involving several Dutch and Luxembourg entities, involving a total of 17 jurisdictions.
  • Advised a Dutch based international electronical devices producer on its internal corporate restructuring involving twelve jurisdictions. Responsible for the coordination, amongst others, of 10 cross border legal mergers into a Dutch group company, of all relevant employment participation procedures and of the advice on all legal aspects in the relevant jurisdictions.
  • Headed an international team working on a pre-acquisition restructuring for a leading dance company and assisted in the sale of this company to a US based global dance event organizer. Responsible for coordination and drafting of legal step plans and the implementation thereof involving 7 jurisdictions.
  • Advising on and implementing a new governance and corporate structure for leading consultancy firm with more than thirty partners. Drafting shareholder's agreement, board regulations, articles of association and coordinated the required corporate restructuring.
  • Headed an international team clean-up its corporate structure, involving cross border mergers, liquidations, share transfer and other corporate instruments involving 15 jurisdictions for a global education company.
Languages
  • English
  • Dutch
Education
  • DLA Piper Leadership Course, Harvard Business School, 2011
  • Strategic Leadership Program (SLP), University Nyenrode, 2010
  • Dutch Royal Notarial Organisation, Notarial Professional Education, 1999


    Leiden University, Civil Law and Notarial Law, 1995

Publications

  • A works council governance code is needed in practice, 20 May 2015
  • Editor and founder of governance magazine 'De Commissaris', 2006-2015
  • Co-author of the handbook for the Non-Executive in Private Equity portfolio companies "Handboek voor de Participatiecommissaris"

Lecturer

Sander is lecturer at two reputable education programs for non-executives, amongst others Het Programma voor Commissarissen en Toezichthouders van ESAA – Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance.

He is also teacher Corporate Law at the Law Firm School, a professional post-graduate course for lawyers employed by the top 20 law firms in the Netherlands.