Kees Groffen specialises in investment management including providing regulatory advice to domestic and foreign investment funds and asset managers, and advising on the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, including retail and private equity funds. He also advises asset managers and pension funds on discretionary and fiduciary asset management agreements and asset pooling.

Recent work includes advising:

• ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe (ING REIM) on the structuring of European Property Strategy NV, an investment fund regulated in the Netherlands through which institutional investors are offered the opportunity to invest in 14 non-listed property funds with total assets under management of more than EUR 18 billion, first closing with Swiss based investor Helvetia
• APG Asset Management on the establishment by Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP and the Canadian based pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System of INKEF Capital.  INKEF Capital aims at investing EUR 200 million in predominantly Dutch and Canadian based companies and technologies at defined stages of their life cycle, from the early stage phase through product development, commercialization and growth and market expansion phases. This innovative investment approach is referred to as life cycle investment
• VPV Bankiers on the listing of VPV Value Fund at Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext, Euronext Fund Services.

Chambers says he ‘is a market-leading funds lawyer, acting on soe of the country's most prominent cases.’ Kees Groffen is 'a celebrated civil law notary with specialist knowledgeof fund formation and asset management.' Legal 500 describe him as ‘‘very well connected in the industry’ and a ‘very skilled lawyer with excellent drafting skills’.