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 judge at the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch.
• Professor of Succession Law and Estate Planning at Leiden University.
• Lecturer International Tax Program at Leiden University.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for National and International Estate Planning, which is affiliated with Utrecht University.
• Lecturer Executive Master Program of Advanced Studies in International Taxation at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 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).
• Chairman of the Specialist Section Estate Planning of the NOB.
• Director of Forvis Mazars Bewind & Executele B.V.
• Chairman of the board of the Cornelis Kruseman-Jozina Maria Cornelia Ising Foundation.
• Chairman of the board of the Sebastiaan Society.
• 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 Notary 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.
• Editor of Nederlandse Regelingen van Internationaal Belastingrecht (NRIB) (loose-leaf publication).
• Permanent contributor to Weekblad voor Privaatrecht Notariaat en Registratie (WPNR).
• Board member International Legal Institute Foundation.
• Annotator of the NLFiscal Foundation.
• Member of the Supervisory Board of the National Art Property Fund.
• Member of Committee of Recommendation of Masterly The Hague Foundation.
• Director Stichting Administratiekantoor Curpohold.