JERRY HOFF
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mr. dr. G.T.J. Hoff
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Curriculum Vitae in English
Every inch a litigation terrier
Mr. Hoff specializes in corporate & securities litigation in a broad sense of the terms. Reference is also made to our track record in this regard. He is permanent advisor to a number of financial institutions and high net-worth individuals and their businesses. He recently focuses on inheritance proceedings, for which a separate website will soon be published (www.bonjeomdeerfenis.nl).
Jerry Hoff studied business law at Leiden University. He commenced his career as in-house lawyer at ABN Amro Bank. From 1990, he was a lawyer at Loeff Claeys Verbeke, where he became a partner in 1996. Subsequently he became a partner with Loyens & Loeff and Spigthoff. He worked in Singapore and Indonesia for three years. In his role as consultant for the IMF and the World Bank, Jerry Hoff was closely involved in the modernization of Indonesia’s bankruptcy laws and in training the judiciary and the legal profession in the principles of insolvency law. He is a recognized troubleshooter when it comes to complex disputes and disputes that get media attention.
The authoritative publication Chambers described Jerry Hoff as ‘a great lawyer and an experienced litigator’, ‘an extremely shrewd litigator’ and a ‘distinguished litigator’. More recent quotes are ‘strong strategic thinker’ and an ‘ excellent debater in the courthouse’. Jerry Hoff has been listed in this guide every year since 2004.
Specialization: in March 2011, Jerry Hoff obtained his law doctorate at the Radboud University in Nijmegen with the doctoral thesis ‘Disclosure of price-sensitive information’. Jerry Hoff is senior lecturer in the specialist study course Securities Law at the Grotius Academy and permanent annotator at the JOR case-law journal. Amongst other positions, he is (has been) guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a former member of the JHB group’s advisory board, of SBS’s supervisory board, of NRC Media’s supervisory board and of Zoom.In’s supervisory board . He also is a former chairman of the BSV Bloemendaalse Schoolvereniging, a school association. At present, he is a member of the board of the Stichting Openluchttheater Bloemendaal (Caprera), an open air theatre foundation and of Stichting Toezicht JHB Group.
Recent (Dutch-language) publications
- Use of inside information, in: Manual Insider Trading (Recht en Praktijk nr. FR18), Deventer, publisher Kluwer 2018, pp. 115-157
- Annotation of CBb (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) dated 14 augustus 2018, JOR 2018/278 (Imtech)
- Annotation of CBb (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) dated 19 maart 2018, JOR 2018/306 (Sabon)
- Annotation of CBb (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) dated 22 februari 2017, JOR 2017/166 (AFM)
- With the bottom naked, in: Fraud Financial Law Netherlands Enterprise Court at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, Deventer, publisher Kluwer 2016, pp. 13-30
- Disclosure of inside information according the new regime of the market abuse regulation, in: Journal for Financial Law 2016, 12, p. 507-524
- Annotation of Central Holland District Court dated 27 juli 2016, JOR 2016/305 (VEB/Ziggo)
- Annotation of European Court of Justice dated 11 maart 2015, JOR 2016/304 (Lafonta/AFM)
- Annotation of Amsterdam Court of Appeals (Arnhem place of session) dated 10 July 2015, JOR 2015/70 (Super de Boer/VEB)
- Annotation of Amsterdam Court of Appeals (Arnhem place of session) dated 11 November 2014, JOR 2015/71 (Super de Boer/VEB)
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Recent lectures
- What is price sensitive information and how should the Financial markets Authority further compliance with the duty of disclosure?, Research Center for Corporations & Law, 8 October 2015
- Publication of price-sensitive information, the Rotterdam District Court’s knowledge center for financial and economic law, 19 June 2014
- Three-handed lecture: Fortis Bank, Molengraaff Club (Utrecht University), 4 June 2014
- Farewell symposium Christel Grundmann-van de Krol of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, 28 November 2013
- The Fortis case: liability for misleading information, PowerPoint presentation for the Securities Law study course to the Grotius Academy, 20 November 2013
- On the imagination of the misled model person, lecture for the Vereniging Corporate Litigation association, 30 May 2013
- The ‘own offence’ nature of using inside information, lecture on the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the VVER (Securities Law Association), 15 November 2012
- Layman’s talk on the occasion of obtaining his law doctorate at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, 31 March 2011
- Private ‘supervision’ and redress after the fall of Fortis, lecture for the SGOR student association for business and law, RUG Congress: Supervision in the financial sector, 19 November 2010
- Disclosure of price-sensitive information – a plea for greater transparency, improved legislation and more active supervision, the VEB De Diligentia lecture, 7 October 2010