International B2B business to business contracting including direct and indirect (distribution/agency) sales contracts for the sale of goods and/or services, sale and/or purchase of companies (assets and/or shares) and/or strategic alliances, tax driven structures and compliance.

Education

Madelon completed her study English law at “the College of Law” and was admitted to the role of solicitors in 1994. After moving to the Netherlands, Madelon worked initially with a law firm. After a number of years she worked as inhouse legal counsel with a number of international companies based in the Netherlands. Her focus as legal counsel was to provide first hand legal advice to the company and instructed external counsel for expert legal advice. Madelon’s USP was to reduce the potential legal risks of the company by streamlining internal processes relating to the sale of the products/services and delivery thereof as well as to reduce the legal costs by being the first point of contact for legal issues within the company and take the lead in instructions to external legal experts.

B2B legal counsel/business development

As from 1 October 2019.

Work experience

Madelon started as ‘Solicitor’ in London and thereafter with a medium size Rotterdam law firm and focussed primarily on the Anglo-Saxon practice.

During her time with the law firm in Rotterdam, she plays a pivotal role in the international alliance that the law firm had joined, and she was responsibility for managing the legal work that was generated within this international alliance. Furthermore, Madelon played an active role in expanding the international alliance and international contacts to service the needs of the firm’s clients internationally.

She then made the move to inhouse legal work and learnt what the added value was of being part of a company.

A number of years later, Madelon became a devoted mother and decided to take a number of years out to raise her son.

Some years later she worked as interim legal counsel for a number of medium to large companies. Madelon is a problem solver and did what she could, within the legal parameters, to provide practical legal advice to support the business of the company for the business to reach their commercial goals.

Madelon chose specifically to work with a law firm where she can apply her experience as inhouse counsel to provide practical legal advice to clients of LVH. Furthermore, she is responsible for developing the international network of the firm with other law firms.

Expertise

International commercial (business to business) contracting in the broadest sense, project based legal support with clients of LVH, interim legal services and compliance.

Qualities

Madelon focusses primarily on (international) legal support with LVH clients that have legal issues that cannot be handled internally due to size and complexity as well as business development on a national and international level.

Madelon is a practical, commercial, assertive and creative person and loves finding solutions. Madelon is open in her communication, optimistic, out of the box thinker and has a truly English sense of humor.

Personal characteristics

Madelon is an extravert and sociable communicator with a bubbly character. She thinks in solutions and not problems and is very upright and honest.