Adriaan Norenburg

Adriaan has over 30 years’ experience as a criminal defence lawyer. He handles a wide range of criminal cases and administrative sanction proceedings and has been one of the partners at La Gro Geelkerken since 2000. He specialises in defending private individuals, companies, and public authorities in complex criminal proceedings on fraud and in the domains of tax, economic, and environmental law. Aside from that, he boasts many years’ experience and expertise in sex cases, traffic cases (driving licences, proceedings involving the Dutch Central Office for Motor Vehicle Driver Testing, road accidents) and workplace accidents. His way of working can be summed up as extremely thorough. The difference between acquittal and a sentence often lies in the tiniest of details.

Specialist areas

• Criminal law and administrative sanctions law

Background and other work

• 1987, Nijmegen University (Criminal Law and Business Law)
• 2012, Postgraduate Specialisation Programme in Criminal Law (Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University)
• Adviser of Stichting Opleidingen Strafrecht Advocatuur Midden-Nederland (SOSAM);
• Member of the Netherlands Association for Criminal Defence Lawyers;
• Member of the European Criminal Bar Association;
• Partner of the national network of specialists in criminal cases (LS Advocaten Strafrecht);
• Member of the Woerden Lions Club;
• Member of the 40+ club Woerden Round Table.

Recent cases

• Credit Suisse property fraud https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1418992/om-eist-3-jaar-cel-tegen-ex-directeur-colliers-voor-omkoping-in-vastgoedbeheer-credit-suisse-wjk1aaMQkdA8?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=earned&utm_content=20211110
• Fatal workplace accident in Heeten
• Workplace accident with severe injury in Varsseveld
• Illegal tropical timber imports (FLEGT regulation)
• Corruption case at the Alphen aan den Rijn local authority
• Criminal organisation in Bodegraven