Matthijs Roest Crollius

Partner

Network

Matthijs is a member of Association Employment Lawyers Netherlands (VAAN – Vereniging Arbeidsrecht Advocaten Nederland) and of Association Employment Lawyers Amsterdam (VAAA – Vereniging Arbeidsrecht Advocaten Amsterdam). Furthermore, Matthijs is a member of the Association International des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) and the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).

Languages

Dutch and English

Expertise

Matthijs advises national and international companies and litigates on Dutch employment and labour law issues, in particular

employment agreements
employment manuals
(collective) termination(s) of employment
(statutory) directors
international) postings (immigration and global mobility)

management agreements
service agreements
employment bonus and/or option schemes
employee consultation procedures
(collective bargaining) agreements

Experience

Matthijs Roest Crollius graduated in Dutch Law from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, with a focus on Dutch corporate and employment law and studied International Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He started working as a lawyer at VMW Taxand in Amsterdam in 2008 with a focus on initially contract and corporate law and then on employment law. In 2013, he graduated from the post-doctoral Grotius Academy for Employment Law.

Matthijs is dependable, flexible, open-minded and committed to bringing cases to a good conclusion, not shying away from the unconventional path and a tough legal approach. Matthijs advises on a wide range of employment and labour topics, as well as immigration issues related to international mobility of workers. Next to being fluent in English and Dutch, he is happy to have a conversation in French.

Matthijs is member of the Dutch Bar, the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), the Dutch Employment Lawyers Association (VAAN), the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and committed to diversity in various advocacy organizations and has been a board member for 8 years of Pymwymic, a community of investors who believe in the flow of capital to good causes.

Other activities and Publications

Matthijs also regularly gives presentations, in-house training and speaks at seminars in the Netherlands and abroad.

Matthijs has been a board member for 8 years of Pymwymic, a community of investors who believe in the flow of capital to good. “Since 1995, the Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Community of families, philanthropists and individual investors have helped provide capital to for-profit companies creating positive social impact in the world”.

Matthijs’ past publications include an annual contribution on Dutch labour law to “International Labor & Employment Laws”, an American Bar Association edition.

Registration

Matthijs has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister): employment law.

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.