• Lux Advocaten

  • Real Estate Law

  • Corporate Law

  • Insolvency Law

About Lux

LUX Advocaten is a boutique law firm established in Haarlem.

The firm focuses on corporate law, real estate, insolvency law and litigation.

Margot Bakhuis, Marjolein Costers en Bart Mendel have many years of experience and worked for some of the leading firms in The Netherlands.

LUX Advocaten stands for efficiency, speed and personal attention.

If required the firm works together with other advisors, such as civil notaries, tax advisors or in an international team. LUX Advocaten has a broad national and international network that offers its clients a multidisciplinary approach.

LUX Advocaten renders its services to companies in the real estate branch (property owners, landlords, housing cooperatives, investors, real estate agents), the retail branch and the fashion industry. The client base of the firm also consists of accountancy firms, banks, production companies, IT companies, publishers and healthcare companies.

THESE ARE THE PARTNERS OF LUX ADVOCATEN

Margot Bakhuis

Margot Bakhuis

Margot Bakhuis is practicing as an attorney since 1988.

She worked 12 years for the Amsterdam law firm Goudsmit & Branbergen (since 1995 as a partner). In 2000 she joined Vogel and Ruitenberg advocaten, an Amsterdam law firm with 23 lawyers.

In September 2007 Margot moved her law practice to Haarlem to practice as an independent attorney. In 2012 she founded LUX Advocaten together with Marjolein Costers.

Margot has a broad experience in various areas of corporate law and also advises on real estate and rental issues. Furthermore, Margot advises on various civil law cases. She is very experienced in civil litigation and acts as in house-attorney for various companies.

Margot is chairman of the International Lawyers Group, an international network of law firms, and she works for many international clients.

Contact details

bakhuis@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 23 542 02 02
+31 6 53 93 43 83
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Marjolein Costers

Marjolein Costers

Marjolein Costers (1974) studied law at the University of Leiden. During her study she worked i.a. as a clerk at the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam and as a paralegal at a Rotterdam law firm.

Marjolein practices as an attorney since 1999. She worked (i.a.) at De Clercq Advocaten in Leiden and Boekel de Nerée N.V. in Amsterdam. With this law firm she specialised in real estate, including rental law and litigation. She is further engaged in general civil law matters.

Since 2010 she practices as an independent lawyer. In 2012 she founded LUX Advocaten together with Margot Bakhuis.

Marjolein published various articles in well-established legal journals. She is co-author of the Handboek Registergoederenrecht 2015/2016 (Manual on Registered Property Law), that is often used by civil notaries.

Marjolein has a broad experience as a trainer and lecturer on rental law (business premises and housing) for companies and lawyers.

Contact details

costers@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 6 52 44 27 17
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Bart Mendel

Bart Mendel

Bart Mendel studied law at the University of Leiden and started his legal career in 1991 at the offices of NautaDutilh. From 1995 to 2007 he co-founded Wiersma Mendel Prakke in Amsterdam at which law firm he was a partner from 1995 to 2007. At Pot Jonker in Haarlem Bart was a partner from 2007 to 2014.

Bart specializes in corporate/commercial law and insolvency law. He has a special focus on relaunches, provision and enforcement of security, directors’ liability, auditors’ liability and shareholder disputes.

Bart completed a post-graduate course in Mergers and Acquisitions at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and he is a member of the Association of Insolvency Practitioners (INSOLAD).

In 2014 Bart joined LUX Advocaten as a partner.

Contact details

mendel@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 23 542 02 02
+31 6 20 59 90 01
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Legal areas

LUX Advocaten focuses on the following areas of law

Real estate

rental law (both business premises and housing), real estate (sales contracts, transactions), attachments and executions, various contracts (sale, lease, franchise, etc.), real rights, neighbouring rights.

Corporate/commercial

mergers, acquisitions, various contracts, shareholder disputes, disputes between customers and suppliers, liquidation and dissolution of legal entities, general conditions.

Insolvency

relaunches, directors’ liability, provision and  enforcement of security.

The firm has a strong litigation practice supporting the legal areas above

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International

InThe firm is member of the International Lawyers Group, an international network of law firms in various countries throughout the world. If required, matters are being referred to members of this international network.

Margot Bakhuis heads the Executive Committee of the International Lawyers Group and has personal contacts with representatives in the various member countries

Contact

LUX Advocaten
Nieuwe Gracht 7
2011 NB Haarlem

+31 23 542 02 02
info@lux-advocaten.nl

KvK-nummer: 55638120
BTW-nummer: 851796953B01

 

Margot Bakhuis
bakhuis@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 23 542 02 02
+31 6 53 93 43 83

Marjolein Costers
costers@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 6 52 44 27 17

Bart Mendel
mendel@lux-advocaten.nl
+31 23 542 02 02
+31 6 20 59 90 01

Route description LUX Advocaten

By train

The firm is situated close to Haarlem train station (5 minutes walking).

Walking route

From the exit (direction “centrum”) you walk you cross the square and walk in the direction of the Centre through the Kruisstraat. You continue until you cross a canal (Nieuwe Gracht). After you cross the bridge turn immediately left. The office is one block further on your right hand side.

By car (from highway A9)

On the highway A9 you take the exit “Halfweg, Haarlem”. You follow the direction Haarlem (A 200). You drive all the way straight to the city centre. At the end of this road at the fourth traffic lights (at the Amsterdamse Poort) you turn right at the T -junction. Then turn immediately left. After the road turns to the left you cross a bridge over the Spaarne river. After you crossed the bridge turn right, and drive along the river. At the first opportunity – after a few hundred meters - (you see a small fish shop) - you make a U turn. You then take the first street on your right, this is the Nieuwe Gracht. Our offices are two blocks further on your left hand side. 
You can park your car on any available (paid) parking. If you wish you can also store your car in one of the parking garages.

They are all at walking distance from our office. 

  •   Stationsplein, Lange Herenstraat 11, 2011 LK Haarlem
  •   De Appelaar, Damstraat 12, 2011 HA Haarlem

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Disclaimer & General conditions

Disclaimer

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General conditions

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Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (in Dutch Wwft)

Unusual Transactions

As a law firm we are obliged to comply with the provisions of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Wwft). Under this act lawyers have to notify the Office for the Disclosure of Unusual Transactions (in Dutch: Meldpunt Ongebruikelijke Transacties) at the Ministry of Justice of certain "unusual transactions". The purpose of the act is to combat the laundering of the proceeds of crime and the financing of terrorism.

When we disclose an unusual transaction, we are not allowed to inform the client of this.

Identification

In some cases our lawyers are obliged to identify the client and verify his identity. This obligation too is contained in the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act. Lawyers are among other things obliged to identify the client, or the ultimate client, when providing assistance or rendering advice in the matter of the purchase or sale of immovable property, when managing funds, securities or other cash equivalents, when incorporating or managing companies or similar legal persons, when purchasing or selling enterprises, when performing work in tax-related matters or when acting in the client’s name and for the client’s account in connection with a financial or real estate transaction of any kind.

In such cases we may not advise or represent the client as long as no, or no adequate, identification has been provided to us.

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