Healthcare

Banning traditionally has a wide variety of clients in the healthcare sector, ranging from hospitals, independent treatment centers, mental health institutions, VVT providers, dental practices and youth care providers.

The healthcare sector is highly regulated and legislative changes follow each other in rapid succession. Take, for example, sectoral regulations such as the WTZi, WTZa, Wmcz, Wkkgz and the Health Care Governance Code, but also general regulations such as the Works Councils Act, the Top Income Standardization Act, the Management and Supervision of Legal Entities Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.

Our belief is that because of this specific landscape, we can best help your healthcare organization from a sectoral approach. That is why our lawyers combine their legal knowledge and experience within the healthcare team. Each of them has broad experience within the healthcare sector, knows your industry and culture, and oversees the broader playing field. Together they are able to assist your organization pragmatically and vigorously, whether it concerns labor disputes, employee participation processes, corporate law issues, privacy law, procurement or assistance with mergers and acquisitions. That knowledge and experience is in house, under one roof.

The care team can assist you in areas such as:

• Employment law: Debby Hermans and Suzan Wolters, as employment lawyers, can assist you in areas such as transgressive behavior (in dealing with patients or colleagues), dysfunctional procedures, disrupted labor relations and long-term disability of employees. They are also very experienced in the field of collective issues such as co-determination processes, reorganizations and collective bargaining agreements in the healthcare sector.
• Corporate Law: Henk Brat, Matthijs Steenpoorte, Lieke van Aarssen and Jan Willem Reesink guide you through mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and governance issues. They are also experienced litigators in the field of disputes and procedures (such as inquiry proceedings at the Enterprise Chamber). They regularly act as sparring partners for boards of directors, supervisory boards and in-house corporate lawyers.
• Competition and procurement: Chris van der Corput and Martijn Jongmans are happy to support you in everything involved in tendering projects and applications and procedures at the NZa and the ACM.
• Commercial contracts: Minos van Joolingen and his team can assist you in drafting and negotiating all kinds of commercial contracts.
• Real estate and administrative law: Arjen de Bruijn focuses on real estate transactions and investments, commercial rental law, project development and real estate-related corporate law. Chris van der Corput also has years of experience in the real estate sector and Annelies Plooij specializes in (spatial) environmental law and administrative law. They can advise and assist you with issues and procedures concerning project development, zoning plans, environmental permits, subsidies and enforcement by administrative bodies (including administrative fines).
• Privacy Law: Suzan Wolters and the Privacy Law department have extensive experience with, among other things, healthcare-specific privacy regulations, (misuse of) the EPD, patient rights regarding logging and rights of data subjects under the AVG, internal and external privacy policies, increasing privacy awareness among employees, enforcement of internal and statutory regulations and advice on (potential) data breaches.
• Family & Inheritance Law: Katrien van Stratum and Agnes van Wieren can assist you with issues such as protective measures for adults, guardianship, mentorship and guardianship and drawing up a living will. In addition, they can advise you and your organization on possible problems in dealing with clients and their families. Their years of experience as mediators helps in this regard.