The objective of this website is to provide substantive legal information on the prevention of payment disputes and on the options for recovering your collection invoices / receivables. This information is mainly aimed at businesses. You can use the menu on the left to navigate to the relevant topics.
For convenience sake, let's give you ten reasons to remember our lawyers' office in Eindhoven, so you can contact us when you might need us. If you have any questions, you can always reach us by telephone: +31 40 284 11 72 (click here for our contact details).
Ten good reasons to remember the name Swart & De Schepper Advocaten:
- A track record of success.
- Twelve years of experience in a solicitor's practice with a wide outlook, covering labour law, pension law, insurance disputes, liabilities, collections, and divorce law.
- Open about risks and difficulties, chances and opportunities.
- Clear agreements, realistic objectives, clear quotations.
- Multi-disciplinary collaboration with accountants, tax specialists, HR consultants, recoupment research agencies, insurance intermediaries, bailiffs, medical advisors, construction experts, notaries and foreign lawyers.
- Member of the Dutch Bar Association.
- Member of the Vereniging van Arbeidsrecht Advocaten Nederland (VAAN) [Netherlands Labour Law Association] and the Vereniging van Incasso Advocaten (VIA) [Collection Lawyers Association].
- Competitive rates. Our starting point is that the costs should be in proportion to possible revenues. Customized rates are possible.
- Cost-effectiveness: The acceptance of an assignment always includes a risk assessment to prevent possible conflicts.
- Excellently accessible location near Eindhoven Airport.
Dear visitor,
Collecting outstanding invoices is an art in itself. After all, you want your debtors to pay for your receivables no matter what. Sometimes your debtors do not pay because they do not want to, sometimes because they cannot. In all those cases, it is paramount that you ensure that you have optimum chance of successful collection.
Swart & De Schepper Advocaten has a comprehensive approach to your collection invoices. This means that our legal advice starts with the way in which you design your contractual relations. If this is correct, you will run practically no risk at all in those cases where it comes to collection measures. In addition, as a law firm we can, if necessary, make attachments against your debtors, threaten them with bankruptcy, file for bankruptcy if necessary, request the Court President in interlocutory proceedings (accelerated proceedings) to order your debtor to pay and take a case to a higher court in appeal. In contrast to bailiffs and collection agencies, only law firms registered with the Court are authorised to do so.
If the collection invoices you submit to us meet the requirements of sound accounts receivable management, we can almost always do this on a no cure no pay basis. In the few cases where your debtor sets up a defence, we will provide you with an estimate of the costs beforehand. This is based on the principle that the costs have to be in relation to the revenue expected.
Yours faithfully,
Swart & De Schepper Advocaten
Meester (M.) Martijn de Schepper LL M
