WRE lawyers, is a law firm that works for corporate clients. Independent and expert, honest and confidential.
The office focuses on complex matters with often strategic aspects, such as real estate development, company relocation, reorganisations, insolvency, redundancies, divestment, acquisitions, shareholder disputes, compliance/ESG processes, etc.
WRE provides the client with an agile legal team. WRE involves the necessary specialists for this (“ as and when needed ”). Such a team works via a proven secure digital platform. This gives the client’s people involved transparent insight into the progress of the project. In addition, the client can access the project data as required. And that project data can of course be transported to an environment of the client at the conclusion of the project. This ensures unity of information and continuity of data availability.
WRE thus stands for “lawyership 2.0”: innovative and effective.
Edo Smid works as a lawyer at the intersection of real estate and corporate law. He is registered as a lawyer with the Dutch Bar Association. He has extensive experience in transaction management and contracting in the context of project development (logistics), acquisitions, tech & finance startups, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations, as well as related disputes and proceedings. His clients are located throughout the Netherlands, with an emphasis on the Randstad. Edo is co-founder of Lexence NV From 2005-2007 he was a partner at Hurdle Investments, a real estate corporate finance boutique in Amsterdam. He then established himself as an independent lawyer and since 2011 he has been a lawyer at Wintertaling Coöperatie UA in Amsterdam.
About Edo Smid
As of 2021, Edo will be working at WRE lawyers BV, a law firm that he positions as a boutique for legal assistance in real estate development and transactions, corporate restructuring and legal project management. The introduction of the Private Agreement Homologation Act (WHOA), the emergence of smart contracts and ESG investments will receive a special focus. In addition to his commercial law practice, Edo is a creative legal sparring partner of Merijn Tinga, also known as the “Plastic Soup Surfer” in his campaigns against plastic pollution, including issuing writs and legislative initiatives.
Edo is also involved in various initiatives to enforce the Dutch rule of law through the courts. Edo graduated in Dutch law and notarial law at the Free University in Amsterdam and (capita) tax law at the University of Amsterdam. He is registered in the register of legal areas of the Bar Association in the field of real estate, insolvency and corporate law. In line with his practice areas, he is a member of several relevant professional associations, such as the Association of Real Estate Lawyers (VVJ), the Association for Commercial Law and the Association of Corporate Litigation. In the social field, he is a member ofthe Industrieele Groote Club in Amsterdam and the WTC Business Club Amsterdam and he is an alumnus of Loyens & Loeff, Allen & Overy and Lexence.
Third-party funds: WRE is not affiliated with a third-funds foundation and does not receive, nor manage any funds or monetary values for clients or third parties. Funds owed to the client by third parties should therefore be paid directly to the client’s bank account.”