Why Finnick?
Finnick helps Fintech companies with all legal aspects of their business, including license applications, advice on compliance with financial laws and regulations, financing, contract negotiations, dispute resolution and crypto and blockchain.
Why doing business with Finnick? Because of its:
- entrepreneurial and result-oriented approach with attention to the specific needs of the FinTech company
- practical and hands-on support in the implementation of legal and regulatory advice within the organisation
- ability to make difficult things simple
- efficient negotiations with good results by focusing on what is important for the FinTech company
- clear picture of what is to come and how to get there, also financially
Why has this office been founded?
Finnick was founded by Arie van den Bergen based on the idea that legal services to FinTech companies can be improved. FinTech entrepreneurs want to focus primarily on their business rather than on the legal aspects. Finnick helps with this by making the ‘license to operate’ easy for FinTech companies by providing practical and result-driven legal advice in understandable language.
About Arie van den Bergen
Like no other, Arie is able to make financial supervision legislation understandable for clients and translate it into a concrete and practical implementation. He thinks along with the customer in solutions without losing sight of the overall picture and continues until the job is done. He has a personal approach and is open, transparent and connecting people.
Arie combines a thorough knowledge and experience of the FinTech business with 25 years of experience as a lawyer (e.g. at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) and corporate lawyer at renowned financial institutions (Deutsche Bank, ING and Aegon Bank/Knab). He has worked for 7 years at online bank Knab in the start-up phase and knows what it takes to make a FinTech company a success.
In his spare time, Arie enjoys sports: squash, tennis, running and sailing. He also likes (hiking) travels and cooking and likes to spend time with his family with two daughters.
About Maarten van Denzen
Maarten is a senior legal counsel specialising in financial law. He assists FinTech companies in obtaining licences, setting up a controlled and ethical organisation and complying with complex supervisory rules such as PSD2, PSD3/PSR, AML/CFT and DORA.
What makes Maarten unique? He combines in-depth professional knowledge with a practical approach. He switches effortlessly between strategy and implementation and is able to quickly understand complex structures. Whether it concerns a licence application, a SIRA or a governance issue, Maarten ensures that it works in practice.
Clients appreciate his sharp eye, open communication and ability to really think along with them. He moves easily at all levels within an organisation – from the boardroom to the work floor – and always knows how to strike the right tone.
Maarten has gained extensive experience at a wide range of financial institutions, from innovative FinTech start-ups to established banks. He uses this experience to help your organisation move forward, with solutions that are not only legally sound but also fit your business model.
In his spare time, Maarten can often be found cycling or in the kitchen, where he enjoys cooking with ingredients from his own vegetable garden.