Christiaan Oberman
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Apart from employment law, Christiaan Oberman also specialises in public service law.
He advises both Dutch and international companies, including various listed companies and (semi-) public bodies. He is mainly involved in advising Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards. He also assists management boards and HR departments in reorganisations. In addition, he assists statutory directors and directors.
Christiaan has been a lawyer since 1989 and has been a partner of Palthe Oberman since the establishment of the firm. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Maryland (United States) and completed the postgraduate course in Employment Law.
Christiaan teaches employment law to trainee lawyers in the context of their professional training (VSO) and delivers lectures and courses in that area. He also regularly publishes articles on employment law topics. Each year, he writes the Employment Law Chronicle for the Dutch Bar Journal (Advocatenblad), with the most important decisions in the area of employment law.
In addition, Christiaan has been involved in the work of War Child since its foundation.
Christiaan is recommended in Chambers and Legal 500. He is described as a “strategic, highly skilled and technical” lawyer and in Legal 500 as a “very good negotiator.” According to Chambers, Christiaan is recommended by his clients for “his ability to build relationships with key internal stakeholders.”