About the firm
A small firm with a long view of Dutch business.
We started MockSMB because Dutch small and mid-sized businesses deserve the calibre of counsel usually reserved for top-tier corporate firms — without the meter, the layers, or the theatre. Eleven years on, the brief has not changed.
In a sentence
“Legal advice that fits in your week,
in your budget,
and in your business plan.”

Our story
A decade on Lange Voorhout
- 2014MockSMB is founded by Annelies de Vries above a bookshop on Lange Voorhout.
- 2017Pieter van Rijn joins as senior partner, opening the employment practice.
- 2019We move into the current premises at Lange Voorhout 42.
- 2021The privacy & technology practice opens under Yasmine El Amrani.
- 2024MockSMB advises on its 50th SMB acquisition and crosses 240 active clients.
Independent
We are owned only by our partners. The only interest we represent is yours.
Plain-spoken
If we cannot explain an advice in two paragraphs, we keep working until we can.
Long-term
Most of our clients have been with us for over five years. We work to keep it that way.
