Caroline van der Zwet
Lawyer, partner employment law
Caroline understands that her clients need fast and pragmatic high-level advice. She is skilled in all aspects of employment law and she prefers a decisive approach. This is how she manages to achieve the best possible results for her clients. Caroline works solution-oriented and she also likes to advise her clients at a strategic level.
Caroline is the founder of Milestone Advocaten. She has over 25 years of experience as a lawyer (advocaat). Before establishing her own lawfirm in 2004, she worked as an employment and corporate law lawyer with Clifford Chance in Amsterdam for ten years. She sometimes still works with Clifford Chance as a sparring partner.
Caroline has a close and long-standing client relationship with a large number of international and Dutch companies. In addition, she often acts for directors, board members and senior executives and as an advisor to Works Councils. Caroline is also highly skilled in international employment law and she therefore frequently assists foreign companies and expats.
Caroline also often advises on corporate law, for example in the context of the position of a director-shareholder. She specialises in complex issues relating to the “WNT” (Wet Normering Topinkomens) and the WOR (Works Council Act). Her knowledge of company law is then of added value.
Nomination
Caroline has been nominated as ‘best employment law lawyer’ in the Netherlands by a number of clients.
Caroline is a member of the employment law specialist association called: VAAMN (Employment Lawyers Midden Nederland).
Caroline has a registration for employment law as her (main) area of law in the law-register of the Dutch Bar Association. By virtue of this registration, she annually fulfils the training requirements for this law area in accordance with the applicable standards of the Dutch Bar Association.
Mediator / process counsellor
Caroline has been very active as a mediator for more than 20 years and she has been registered as a register-mediator with the MfN (Dutch Mediators Federation) since 2004.
In that context, she focuses mainly on individual labour conflicts, cooperation conflicts and conflicts within partnerships and law firms. In addition, she is listed as a mediator with the Enterprise Chamber (Ondernemingskamer) of the Amsterdam’ Supreme Court and she is frequently appointed as a negotiator/process supervisor in disputes between companies and their works council. Also mediations in an international context belong to her expertise.