Bartjan Zoetmulder

Bartjan is a tax partner in the Investment Management and Real Estate teams and co-head of the London office of Loyens & Loeff since January 2023. He is an expert in (international) tax matters, focusing on cross border investments. He serves mainly international companies and private equity real estate investment funds, based in the UK, US, Asia and throughout Europe, although Dutch real estate enterprises are also among his clientele.

Bartjan founded the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) team in 2002 and therefore has almost 25 years experience with investments in and from the region. He is also an active member of the APAC team with focus on Japan, since he worked at the Tokyo office from 1995 to 1998 and was responsible for Loyens & Loeff’s Japanese practice in 2012 and 2013. He is a member of the firm’s ESG team (tax governance and sustainability). Bartjan was chairman of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers (Nederlandse Orde van Belastingadviseurs (NOB)) from June 2018 until June 2021. Between 2008 and 2016, Bartjan was already a board member of the NOB, where he held the role of chairman of the International Tax Affairs Committee. Until the end of 2017 he was also chairman of NOB’s Dutch Investment Climate Committee.

He is a much sought-after guest speaker and writer on international tax, real estate investments, tax policy, tax governance, ESG and other topics that fall within his field of expertise.