RESUME

Personal particulars:
Name H.F. [Frederik]Groenestein
Address Ceramstraat 108, 3312 SK te Dordrecht
E-mail h.f.groenestein@gmail.com
Cell-phone 06-42608215
Status Married with children
Driving license BE
Languages English/German fluently, French and Spanish
sufficiently
Capabilities Perseverance, stress resistant, flexible, environmental awareness, focused and result orientated.

Linkedin http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/frederik-groenestein/1/71b/2a4


CREATING AND REALIZING SOLUTIONS WITHIN DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS, WITH RESPECT TO COMMERCIAL LAW AND COMPLIANCE


Education
• Management Trainee in Bourne End [6 months/2003. Shanks Group plc];
• Master at law (Civil and Company law), finished in 1990, Erasmus University in Rotterdam;
• Thesis: Environmental study with focus on law and economics;
• Study: Comparative law in Adelaide [common law vs. civil law, 1989];
• Pre-University education [VWO].

Extensive training:

Sales
• Effective communication and-Houthoff/trainingen 2011;
• PHOE Energy law 2010 (post graduate);
• Seminars EVOA-Kennedy van der Laan 2003-2010;
• ‘Nationale koppen’ lobby Paul Krom en Diederik Samson 2007-2009;
• International Tendering -VU Utrecht 2007;
• Doing business in Germany, Terms and Agreements- under German law -Strick advocaten 2005;
• Acquisitions, Negotiations, Post Acquisition- Alex van Groningen 2000-2002, certificate;
• Commercial advising -De Straat 1994, certificate;

Company law
• Seminars: Employment law, Corporate law, (international)Civil law at –AKD, Nauta en Houthoff 2003-2013;
• Risk management and Compliance&Integrity 2012;
• Master class Conduct personal injury, legal and medical causation, facts and fiction, GxMxV=C3, Liability/ CAR, How to survive internationalization of Civil law 2007-2011, certificate;
• Legal aspects of IE-Patrick van Renterghem 2006-2011. E-safety, Copyright, Privacy act and Data protection act;
• Advantages of term- or perpetuated licensees 2010;
• Annual accounts -Alex van Groningen 2004, certificate;
• Employment law-Post academic Erasmus University 2002, certificate;

Professionally
• Training Environmental law-KWA 2010, certificate;
• Training Corporate Social Responsibility at DHV 2010;
• Education Management and Economics for lawyers -ICM 2004, certificate;
• Company law -Radboud University Nijmegen 2003, certificate;
• Business Process Redesign-KPMG 1993, certificate;
• Soil sanitation -ICM 1991, certificate.



EMPLOYMENT PERIOD PAGE
Ecolegis B.V. August 2011 / present 2
Shanks Nederland B.V. Sept. 2002 / May 2011 2
Essent Milieu B.V. Sept. 1999 / Sept. 2002 2
Environmental Protection Acency May 1992 / Sept. 1999 3
Municipality of Dordrecht Jan. 1990 / May 1992 3

 
Employment:
Projectmanager Ecoverde projects in cooperation with Ecolegis B.V. May 2011 / August 2011

(Partner)Legal Counsel at Ecolegis B.V. August 2011 / present
Responsibilities:
• (International)Sales contracts, general terms and conditions, Company law;
• Advising Pieter Bas ICT, on implementing Tax/Environmental rulings;
• Environmental law, lease contracts and M&A;
• Tenders and Energy tax;
• Energy tender [Taxation office].

Projects:
• The sale of SRF in Belgium, France, Germany and England;
• M&A;
• Managing a hazardous situation at Tata Steel;
• Advising on several tenders, including building recycling plants;
• International contracting;
• Realizing a waste management plant in Moldavia;
• Litigation and damage control.

Employment:

Legal Manager: Shanks Nederland B.V. 2002 to May 2011
Responsibilities:
• Representing the Shanks Group and subs as well within the Netherlands as abroad;
• Secretary of the Board of Directors;
• Sale of commodities and Energy, Compliance, Corporate Governance;
• Responsible for the Group HR-discipline, Labour law, remuneration, Labour contracts and (legal) procedures and Collective agreement negotiations;
• M&A in the Netherlands as well as abroad, litigation, Contracting, (European) Tenders. Joint ventures (De NAM, Wintershall and Shell), International contracting, sparring partner of the CEO & CFO and (Board of) Directors, Company law tax regulations and rulings and structural regime, Competition law. Realizing Corporate Responsibility/Code of Conduct, E-safety and Data protection;
• Restructurings and banking/financial arrangements;
• BtoC sales experience [www.afzetbak.nl].

projects:
• Realizing composting- and anaerobic digestion sites [Greenmills Amsterdam, Cumbernauld UK, London Ontario and Ottawa);
• Outsourcing hardware to Aalsmeer, OBC-contracts with KPN, Fiberglas contracts with Vodafone and software-agreements;
• Strategy en policy of End of Waste and by products. The future of the waste management sector and Biomass exchange Rotterdam with Havenbedrijf Rotterdam and APX/Endex;
• M&A: Tammer Beheer, Smink Beheer, Orgaworld, Zandko, Kluivers, Van Leeuwen Recycling, Bos Zijpe, EPM, Bol bedrijven, ASZ en Mackloet, purchase of real estate, M&A of Solocasión S.L and realizing companies in Spain and South-Africa;
• Mergers: Van der Stoel Groep, Orgaworld, Tammer, Smink en Van Vliet Milieu-dienstverleners;
• Realizing International joint ventures (Capetown, Hongary, Belgium, England, etc.);
• (International) litigation and damage control;
• Competition law: European Comity. Proceedings NMA.

Head of Legal at Essent ’99 to 2002
Responsibilities:
Legal affairs (legal counsels at Tilburg, Buggenum and Valkenswaard), Mergers, M&A, diversifications, contractmanagement. Sparring partner of the CEO and financial manager.

Projects
• M&A: Bowie, Van der Donk, Razob en ASB;
• Waste to Energy strategy and policy [McKinsey, Pieter Winsemius];
• (Co)Developing standards for sales contracts: woodpellets, woodchips (Canada) en Cocoshells (Brazil);
• Diversifications and liquidations;
• Restructuring the legal entities;
• Competition law;
• ICT Contractmanagement [Prince II method];
• Legal proceedings;
• Realizing a site in India.


Lawyer: Milieudienst Zuid-Holland Zuid ’92 to ‘99
Responsibilities:
Court proceedings, Advisor of the Municipality members, Interim-secretary of the Board of Directors of Gevudo, legal control.

Projects:
• Sale- en lease back Gevudo installation and real estate;
• Court proceedings;
• Realizing an European tender for Gevudo and Netwerk.

Lawyer at the Municipality of Dordrecht ’90 t/m ‘92
Responsibilities:
Soil sanitation, managing the construction of a landfill [Derde Merwedehaven].

Projects:
• Realizing the sale of the 60 million Guilder project [Derde Merwedehaven];
• Soil sanitation.

Study:
• Founder editor of a legal faculty paper [‘83/’86];
• Student board member Faculteits- en Universiteitsraad [‘84/’85];
• Student-assistent EU [‘82/’83];
• Partymanager Holiday Inn [‘79/’81];
• Manager Haagsche Courant [‘77/’79].

Desiderata:
Hobbies: Travelling, visiting wine exchanges and wine regions, cooking, basketball, Formula 1, race experience Zandvoort and 4X4 trials.

References:
On request.

Hobby’s: Reizen, wijnbeurzen en wijnstreken bezoeken, koken, basketbal en zeilen, Formule 1, race experience Zandvoort en 4X4 trials.

Ecolegis B.V. Augustus 2011 / heden
Shanks Nederland B.V. Sept. 2002 / mei 2011
Essent Milieu B.V. Sept. 1999 / sept. 2002
Milieudienst Zuid-Holland-Zuid Mei 1992 / Sept. 1999
Gemeente Dordrecht Jan. 1990 / Mei 1992

Hobby’s: Reizen, wijnbeurzen en wijnstreken bezoeken, koken, basketbal en zeilen, Formule 1, race experience Zandvoort en 4X4 trials.