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 and in financial/economic criminal law (especially market abuse). 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.

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, a former sub editor of the Toezicht Financiële Markten books on the supervision of financial markets, and permanent annotator at the JOR case-law journal. Amongst other positions, he is 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.

Recent (Dutch-language) publications

• 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)
• Annotation of CBb (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) dated 15 May 2014, JOR 2014/267 (Wavin)
• On the imagination of the misled model person, Writings for the Corporate Litigation Association 2013-2014, Series for the Van der Heijden Institute, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2014, volume 121, pp. 319-339
• Violation of the duty of disclosure for price-sensitive information as the basis for mismanagement, in: Christels Koers, Liber Amicorum – Prof. C.M. Grundmann-van de Krol, Series on Onderneming en Recht/Business and Law, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2013, volume 79, pp. 317-339
• Use of inside information: own intentions and self-created circumstances do not constitute inside information, Ondernemingsrecht company law trade journal 2013, 16, pp. 599-603
• Annotation of The Hague District Court dated 31 July 2013, JOR 2013/308 (VHS)
• – Civil-law liability for listed institutions in the event of failure to comply with the duty of disclosure of price-sensitive information, in: Aansprakelijkheid in de financiële sector/Liability in the financial sector, Series on Onderneming en Recht/Business and Law, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2013, volume 57, pp. 711-772
• Annotation of CBb (Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal) dated 28 June 2013, JOR 2013/278 (Danone)
• Some thoughts regarding the fleshing out and cutting down to the bone of the term ‘inside information’, in: Lustrumbundel book of essays 2012, VVER (Securities Law Association), ‘Provocative essays on financial supervision law’, Series for the Van der Heijden Institute, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2013, volume 113, pp. 139-150
• Annotation of European Court of Justice dated 28 June 2012, JOR 2012/259 (Geltl/Daimler)
• The maintenance of selective contacts by listed companies: a plea for stricter dike monitoring, Ondernemingsrecht company law trade journal 2011, 14, pp. 513-517
• Annotation of Netherlands Supreme Court dated 5 July 2011, JOR 2011/293+294 (Landis en VPV)
• Annotation of Amsterdam Court of Appeals dated 28 April 2011, JOR 2011/226 (VHS)
• Disclosure of price-sensitive information, Series for the Van der Heijden Institute Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2011, volume 107
• Review of book by J.B.S. Hijink ‘Publicatieverplichtingen voor beursvennootschappen’ (‘Disclosure obligations for listed companies’), (diss. RUG), Ondernemingsrecht company law trade journal 2011, 4, pp. 174-177
• Rules to prevent market abuse, Onderneming en financieel toezicht/Business and financial supervision, Series on Onderneming en Recht/Business and Law, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2010, volume 57, pp. 719-753
• US Supreme Court limits extraterritoriality of the federal securities legislation, Ondernemingsrecht company law trade journal 2010, 13, pp. 569-572
• Another round of consultation about a revision of the Directive on market abuse, Ondernemingsrecht company law trade journal 2010, 12, pp. 499-502
• Annotation of Rotterdam District Court dated 22 July 2010, JOR 2010/273 (Numico/AFM)
• The shareholder as creditor: an uninvited guest?, Curator en Crediteuren, INSOLAD yearbook 2009, Deventer – publisher Kluwer, 2009, pp. 19-37
• Annotation of Judge in interlocutory proceedings, Rotterdam District Court dated 8 July 2009, JOR 2009/234 (Vedior)
• Annotation of Judge in interlocutory proceedings, Rotterdam District Court dated 21 July 2008, JOR 2008/273 (Muller/AFM)
• In a state of excitement about the statutory regulation of selective disclosure?, Bouwen en bezinning, Series for the Van der Heijden Institute, Deventer, publisher Kluwer, 2007, volume 95, pp. 165-180
• Annotation of European Court of Justice dated 10 May 2007, JOR 2007/156 (Georgakis)

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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
• The shareholder as creditor: an uninvited guest?, lecture on the occasion of the INSOLAD annual congress, 27 November 2009
• Shareholder activism: the ‘securities law’ approach, lecture for the JFV Student Congress RUL, 20 November 2009
• Market abuse, PowerPoint presentation for study courses to the Law Firm School, Grotius Academy and the University of Amsterdam

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