Jan Frans de Groot

Jan Frans specialises in public law and Supreme Court litigation. He is head of Houthoff's broad environmental law practice. His particular expertise is planning and zoning law, public-private partnerships, land policy and expropriation. Jan Frans advises on and litigates in relation to matters and projects with complex relationships between private and public interests and he acts for government bodies, developers, investors and large companies. His work focuses on large-scale area development projects, city centre redevelopment and public contracts. He litigates in fact-finding instances before the civil and administrative courts.

Jan Frans is also a Supreme Court lawyer. In Supreme Court cases he focuses mainly on disputes with public law aspects: contracts with the government, government liability, expropriation, real estate, procurement and state aid. Jan Frans is chair of the Dutch Association of Expropriation Law Lawyers, and a member of various associations, including the Dutch Association of Civil Cassation Litigators, the Dutch Association for Expropriation Law, the Dutch Administrative Law Association, the Dutch Construction Law Association, and the Dutch Construction Law Association. He frequently publishes on land policy and expropriation, and gives lectures at the Grotius Academy (Environmental Law) and at the Dutch Institute for Construction Law.