Willem van Hassel

Born in 1946, Mr. van Hassel is a Dutch citizen and obtained his Law Degree at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1964. Until 2000, for nearly 30 years, Mr. van Hassel has practised in various legal areas, amongst which company law in general, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders and board room disputes, reorganisations and (receiverships in) bankruptcy cases, structuring of public-private partnerships and privatizations. During his legal career he has always combined his counseling activities with litigation, both in court cases and arbitration. He has acted as counsel to Dutch Parliament as well as the Dutch Accounting Office. In the early 1990’s, he was president of the Netherlands Bar Association. During the last four years of his legal career he was chairman and managing partner of Trenité Van Doorne, at the time one of the Dutch leading law firms. Until 2000 he was also a Deputy Judge with the Rotterdam District Court. Furthermore Mr. van Hassel gets appointments by the Enterprise Chamber of the Court of Appeals in Amsterdam as an independent investigator/ temporary board member in mismanagement suits and shareholders deadlocks. In various capacities he is actively involved with the developments in the field of good governance. He is also editor of the Toolkit Commissariaat (a practical guide for supervisory directors) and serves and has served on various supervisory boards, including Eurocommercial Properties NV until recently. In 2017 Mr. van Hassel joined AMG’s Supervisory Board. He was appointed Vice Chairman of AMG’s Supervisory Board in 2018.