About Eelkje van de Kuilen
Eelkje van de Kuilen is a lawyer and partner at AKD. She advises government bodies, state-owned companies and non-profit institutions. She assists these parties with her legal knowledge and her feeling for political context.
Eelkje also advises numerous housing corporations. She knows what is going on in this sector, in the legal sphere and at the housing corporations and in politics. Eelkje was a member of the Van Bochove commission which was instructed by Aedes to evaluate the Housing Act [Woningwet] in 2018. She has also advised numerous care and education institutions.
Eelkje combines sound legal knowledge with a hands-on mentality. Clients appreciate her years of experience which enable her to come up with creative and practical solutions.
Eelkje gives lectures and courses very regularly. She also publishes regularly. She is known for her three weekly legal update for housing corporations. You can subscribe to it by sending her an email.
Eelkje has successfully assisted government bodies. She did that, for example, in the field of partnerships with other parties or local authorities, the decentralisation of school buildings, recovery of claims (such as pre-judgement attachments and investigations into director's liability in relation to contract parties) and dealing with bankruptcies of major contract parties.
Eelkje has also advised numerous housing corporations on:
- supervision by the Housing Corporations Authority [Autoriteit Woningcorporaties];
- all aspects of the Housing Act;
- discussions with the Social Housing Guarantee Fund [Waarborgfonds Sociale Woningbouw] (WSW);
- governance issues;
- real estate transactions;
- concluding agreements;
Eelkje is a lecturer at Seminars op Maat, GovernanceQ and HabiTask. She is also an annotator for the Journal for Case Law in the Netherlands [Jurisprudentie in Nederland] (JIN) and a permanent employee of the Real Estate Journal [Vastgoedrecht].