The founding father
The firm was founded by Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (27 October 1762 – 5 August 1834) was a liberal conservative and liberal Dutch statesman. He was a great lawyer, but at the time he took care of it that the oldest republic in the world asked someone who lived abroad (in London) and who happened to be (sort of) an ancestor of William of Orange, to act as a king. The rest is history.