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
Education and work experience.
- 1971 - 1977 | Sorghvliet | Gymnasium
- 1977 - 1982 | Leiden University | PhD in Slavic language and literature (cum laude)
- 1982 | Pushkin Institute Moscow | Russian language proficiency (cum laude)
- 1982 | University of Utrecht | exam interpreter-translator Russian
- 1983 - 1986 | Leiden University | PhD in Dutch law
- 1986 - 1989 | Tilburg University | Postgraduate Course in Taxation (cum laude)
- 1994 - 1995 | Harvard Law School | Visiting Scholar trust and tax law
- 1996 - 2022 | Mazars | Partner, Tax
- 2000 | Utrecht University | dissertation Anglo-American trust
- 2022 - present | Mazars | Of Counsel
Additional positions
- Deputy Justice in 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)
- Director of 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 Weekblad voor Privaatrecht Notariaat en Registratie (WPNR)
- Board member International Legal Institute Foundation
- Annotator of the NLFiscal Foundation
- Member of the Committee of Recommendation of Masterly The Hague Foundation
- Director of Stichting Administratiekantoor Curpohold