Adrian van Loon

Managing Director / Property Consultant Sotogrande

VL&P was formed by Adrian (Ad) van Loon, born in the Netherlands, who grew up in advertising and marketing in close collaboration with Louis Soeterboek, co-founder of the marketing studies of the Institute for Social Studies in the Netherlands and creator too of the concept “Industrial Marketing”.

Adrian van Loon worked many years as a consultant for Dutch based multinational companies; amongst those were Philips and various companies in the building industry.

Van Loon was also for many years the marketing consultant for “Stybenex”, the association of polystyrene producers in Europe, for whom he developed many strategies and introduced several polystyrene building and packaging products in Europe.

After 20 years working from offices in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, at the end of the eighties Adrian van Loon decided to move to Sotogrande and to start operating from, without doubt, one of the best resorts in Andalusia, southern Spain, located between Marbella and Gibraltar and worldwide known for its golf courses (e.g. Valderrama) and polo fields.

One of his main involvements became the constitution in 1995 and the operation of Merweval Real Estate, a “full service” office with as principal market Sotogrande and direct surroundings.
Mid 2005 Adrian van Loon decided to restructure Merweval and to expand with offices in Madrid and California, incorporated in the international consultants activities of Van Loon & Partners.

The real estate activities of VL&P stretch all over Spain and include besides California e.g. also Panama and Morocco.

Adrian van Loon has a close relation with the Dutch Embassy in Spain, he is a member of the Dutch business club in Madrid and of the FHN (Federación Hispano Neerlandesa para el Fomento Industrial – The Spanish Dutch Federation for Industrial Development).
He also forms part of the Reception Committee for International Commerce of the “San Miguel” Finance Club in Algeciras, actually developing a program for the improvement of business relations and investment in Northern Morocco.

Further is Adrian van Loon one of the founders and the president of the Cultural Association of Sotogrande.