Jelmer is specialized in securities law and other financial supervision regulations, including the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht), MiFID 2/MiFIR, AIFMD, UCITS, PRIIPs, EMIR and BMR. He was previously employed as senior legal counsel at an asset manager/merchant bank where he was responsible for the negotiation of investment management mandates with institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies and fund managers. He has also been a senior associate at a leading Benelux law firm where he assisted and represented financial institutions on numerous regulatory and compliance matters. Jelmer holds an LL.M. degree (with honors) in Financial Law and a MSc. degree in Finance & Investments. He has also successfully completed a postdoctoral specialisation programme in Securities Law (with honors) at the Grotius Academy.

Jelmer has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

• Financial law, including banking law.

Based on this registration, he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.