Van Traa Advocaten
Frank Salome is a lawyer at Van Traa Advocaten, specializing in litigation and arbitration related to commodity trade, yacht building, insurance, trade finance, offshore contracting, and the international sale of goods. Prior experience includes a brief secondment at Reed Smith LLP in the Energy & Natural Resources sector and serving as a court clerk at Rechtbank Rotterdam. Frank's earlier career involved finance roles at Solarplaza focused on solar energy. Academically, Frank holds multiple degrees, including a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Private Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Master of Arts (MA) in International Relations from Utrecht University, along with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Additionally, qualifications in national and international contracting were obtained from Grotius Academie in 2022.
Van Traa Advocaten
Founded in 1898, the firm has grown through the years into a law firm with an international scope. Nevertheless, Van Traa is a firm in which the people have both feet firmly on the ground and take time to create a good personal relationship with their clients. A firm where a pleasant work climate is highly valued. Therefore - despite the busyness and devotion required by our work - at Van Traa there is always time for a laugh. Van Traa is specialized in international trade, transport & logistics and insurance & liability. All these areas of activity often involve legally complicated cases. At Van Traa we try to get to the essence of the problem quickly and to create clarity. To make matters clear, that is our objective as Van Traa. Our firm counts over 35 lawyers - a size that makes it possible to deal with larger cases that require a specialized team. On the other hand it is also a size where everyone knows each other well and where know how and specialized knowledge is shared and passed on from the older generation to the younger.