Sterk Ummelen Advocaten

About Sterk Ummelen Advocaten

Sterk Ummelen Advocaten is a law firm in Heerlen. The firm advises businesses, individuals, and other professionals on company law, employment law, tenancy law, insolvency law, inheritance law, and contracts.

Areas of law and advice

The firm advises on legal matters and also helps with problems that have already arisen. It also has a large national and international debt recovery practice.

• Company law and commercial contracts
• Employment law
• Tenancy and property law
• Insolvency law and bankruptcies
• Inheritance law and estates
• Debt recovery

Company law

The firm advises entrepreneurs on the rights and obligations of their businesses and on their legal structure. It helps prevent and resolve problems with a practical and decisive approach.

• Shareholder disputes
• Incorporation and dissolution of legal entities
• Supervision and directors’ liability
• Acquisition matters
• Commercial contracts and trade agreements
• Financing and security interests
• Insolvency law and turnaround
• Civil construction and public procurement law
• Commercial property
• Competition law

Bankruptcies

The Limburg District Court regularly appoints the firm as trustee in various sectors. The administration may involve employees, wage claims, debtors, assets, security interests, and creditors, among other matters.

• Employees and wage claims
• Debtors and debt recovery
• Assets and property
• Banks and security interests
• Continuation and restart
• Lawfulness
• Creditors
• Periodic reporting
• Distribution

Employment law

The firm helps employers and employees with employment law matters and also advises on working relationships between clients, contractors, and zzp’ers (self-employed people without employees).

• Dismissal cases and wage issues
• Employment terms and special clauses
• CAO (collective labour agreement) matters and statutory directors
• Personnel-related acquisition matters
• Temporary agency work and payroll services
• Unemployment and European employment law
• Illness and incapacity for work
• Flexible employment contracts
• Employment law consequences of bankruptcy
• Reorganisations and transfer of undertakings
• Employee participation
• Employer liability

Tenancy and property law

The firm advises buyers, sellers, tenants, landlords, estate agents, and other intermediaries on property matters.

• (Provisional) purchase contracts
• Non-conformity and defects
• Penalty clauses and financing clauses
• NVM terms and conditions
• Business and office premises
• Termination and evictions
• Rents and rent disputes
• Maintenance and defect arrangements
• Substitution of tenant and contract transfers
• Tenancy agreements and general terms and conditions

Inheritance law and estates

The firm provides assistance with inheritance matters, for example disputes between heirs or complex estates. It handles succession, statutory distribution, and estate liquidation, among other matters.

• Succession
• Key parties in estates
• Statutory distribution
• Statutory liquidation

About the firm

Ralph Ummelen and Walter Sterk started a maatschap (Dutch professional partnership) in 2015. They combine individual expertise and experience and are supported by trained staff. The firm is based in an office building dating from 1917 in central Heerlen.

Practical information

The firm is based on Vlotstraat in Heerlen and describes the location as easy to reach. You can get in touch through the contact form.

• Vlotstraat 2, 6417 CB Heerlen