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Marijke Kuilman

Senior Associate

Over the past 18 years, Marijke has gained extensive experience in the legal profession and at the supervisory authority (DNB). Marijke oversees financial regulations and the legal aspects of complex (international) transactions and approval processes. She assists banks, insurers, payment service providers, investment firms and other financial enterprises and their shareholders with matters including qualification of regulatory matters, license applications, applications for a declaration of no objection (DNO processes) and the assessment of directors for suitability and reliability.

Marijke also regularly advises companies (for example, on acquisitions) on governance aspects, remuneration issues (Wbfo and Wnbfo, including the assessment of variable bonuses, LTIPs, SARs, phantom shares, etc.), portfolio transfers (NPLs), the provision of collateral and the issuance of bonds (drafting and approving prospectuses).

In addition, Marijke specializes in the qualification of financial holdings (CRR and CRD), the qualification of investment holdings (IFR and IFD), the qualification of an insurance and the supervision of insurers and insurance intermediaries (Solvency and IDD). Currently, the qualifications of group insurance and of a party under the Credit Servicers and Credit Buyers Directive (or the NPL Directive).

Marijke is a driven and goal-oriented lawyer. She has a practical approach and is clear in her communication and expectations. She immerses herself in the interests of the client. Thanks to her experience at DNB, Marijke has an eye for the dynamics with the regulator.

From 2007 to 2015, Marijke worked as a lawyer (at Loyens & Loeff and NautaDutilh). From 2016 to 2020, she worked at DNB, first as a specialist supervisor in the market access department and then as senior legal counsel in legal affairs. Marijke has been working at Finnius since January 1, 2021.

Marijke studied at the University of Amsterdam and the San Francisco State University.

Work experience

  • Finnius, January 2021 – present
  • De Nederlandsche Bank N.V., 2016 – 2020
  • NautaDutilh N.V., 2012 – 2016
  • Loyens & Loeff N.V., 2007 – 2012
  • Advising (financial) insitutions on financial law in a broad sense, including the scope and application of financial supervisory law, entry to the Dutch market for (among others) banks, payment institutions and insurers, internal governance aspects, sustainability and controlled and ethical business operations ;
  • Assisting institutions with applications for declarations of no objection (DNO);
  • Assisting institutions with fit and proper testing of directors and employees ;
  • Guiding and advising on capital market transactions;
  • Assisting issuing institutions with approval processes at DNB and the AFM (including prospectuses);
  • Preparation of commercial documentation (agreements), including fund documentation, and the creation of securities (collateral);
  • Advising on and structuring of alternative financing structures;
  • Advising on sustainability regulations for financial institutions;
  • Advising on remuneration structures for financial institutions.

Marijke Kuilman has registered in the Register of Legal Practice Areas of the Netherlands Bar Association the legal practice area Financial Law.

This registration obliges Marijke to obtain ten training points in this field of law each calendar year in accordance with the standards of the Dutch Bar Association.