Jan Holthuis

Jan Holthuis

Jan Holthuis, partner and lawyer at BUREN, specialises in corporate and commercial law. Jan has particular experience in China-related cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring, international technology transfers, product liability insurance claims and international arbitration.

After his studies at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, College of Law (London) and Science Po (Paris), Jan followed a postgraduate course at the Grotius Academy. Jan is admitted to the Amsterdam Bar and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. Jan founded HIL International Lawyers & Advisers in 1995. HIL became the first Dutch law firm in China with a license from the Chinese Ministry of Justice in 2004. In 2016, the HIL practice merged with BUREN.

Jan is a registered arbitrator with the China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC). He founded the Agricultural Law Section of the International Bar Association in 2015, presided it for many years and is currently a member of its Advisory Board. Jan has been involved in many politically sensitive China-related international transactions and disputes acting for Western and Chinese clients. Jan is a member of the Board of Trustees of the world's oldest agricultural research institute Rothamsted Research in the UK. Jan is mainly based in Beijing.

Ranking | Chambers Global Guide 2022 | Expertise Based Abroad in the Netherlands | Dispute Resolution
‘Jan Holthuis is a Dutch-qualified lawyer based in the Chinese office of Buren N.V. and representing Dutch companies in arbitration under the SIAC rules, as well as in litigation before Chinese courts. He also acts for Chinese clients on litigation in the Netherlands.’ 

Special qualifications:

• Arbitrator China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)
• Arbitrator Shanghai International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC)
• Advisory Board Agricultural Law Committee of the International Bar Association

Publications:

• China chapter on Shareholders’ Rights’ & Shareholders’ Activism, Global Practice Guide, Thomson Reuters, London, 2021
• China chapter on Dispute Resolution, Lexology/Getting The Deal Through, London, 2021
• China chapter on Product Liability, Lexology/Getting The Deal Through, London, 2021
• China Chapter on Commercial Contracts, Lexology/Getting the Deal Through, London, 2021
• China Chapter on Digital Business, Lexology/Geting The Deal Through, London, 2021
• Technology Transfer Agreements with China, EU SME Center, Guideline, 2019
• Agricultural Law in The Netherlands, Global Practice Guide, Thomson Reuters, London, 2021
• Agricultural Law in China, Global Practice Guide, hoofdredacteur, Thomson Reuters, London, 2021
• Plant Variety Rights Versus Plant Patents: Legal Developments and Frictions in a Regional Perspective, hoofdredacteur, (IBA) Business Law International, mei  2019, Vol 20 No 2, pagina 95 - 136
• Dutch chapter of Agribusiness, Lexology/Getting The Deal Through, London, October 2021
• Presentation on Insurance Law and Product Liability Claims in China, Product Liability: Handling Dispute in China, BLM Offices, London, 2018
• Presentation on Nanotechnology and Agrichemicals. Risk Regulatory of Nano Technology, November 2016