Frans Sonneveldt Of Counsel

Personal quote / vision

Quality above all else.

Specialist experience

  • International inheritance and gift tax

Specific client experience.

  • Anglo-American trusts
  • Estate planning including legal and tax advice on wills, prenuptial agreements, divorces, gifts, emigration and immigration

Additional positions

  • Deputy justice of the ‘s-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal
  • Professor of Inheritance Law and Estate Planning, Leiden University
  • Member of the Practice Council, New York University
  • Member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (San Francisco, CA)
  • Member European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP)
  • Chairman of the board of the Genootschap van Estate Planners (GEP)
  • Director of Forvis Mazars Bewind & Executele B.V.
  • Chairman of the Board of the Cornelis Kruseman-Jozina Maria Cornelia Ising Foundation
  • Member of Scientific Advisory Board (WAR) of the Association of Estate Planners in the Notarial Profession (EPN)
  • Extraordinary member of the Association of Estate Planners in the Notarial Profession (EPN)
  • Editor at Fiscal Bureau for the Notarial Profession (FBN)
  • Member of the Editorial Board at the Dutch Journal of Fiscal Law (NTFR)
  • Member of the editorial board of Nederlandse Documentatie Fiscaal Recht (NDFR) Successiewet 1956 and Wet op belastingen van rechtsverkeer 1970
  • Permanent contributor to the Dutch Private Law Notary and Registration Weekblad (WPNR)
  • Board member International Legal Institute Foundation
  • Annotator of Stichting NLFiscaal
  • Director of Stichting Administratiekantoor Curpohold