Benelux leader NautaDutilh has handed chairman Marc Blom a second term at the helm and elected corporate partner Jan Loorbach to its executive board, the firm announced today (25 May).

Blom will continue as chairman for a second three-year term and is joined on the firm's main decision-making board by Rotterdam-based Loorbach and managing director Peter van der Meij. Van der Meij joined the board in 2005 and is also handed a further three-year term.

The appointments were made during a partners' meeting yesterday (24 May).

Loorbach, who joined the Amsterdam-based firm in 1971 and became a partner in 1979, takes the place of Rotterdam partner Tjitske Cieremans, who returns to her insurance practice after completing her term.

Nauta reduced its executive board from four members to three last July following the departure of Brussels-based intellectual property partner Benoit Strowel.