Areas of expertise

We possess extensive experience and expertise in the following areas of the law:

• commercial disputes (including disputes about contracts, product liability and agency and distribution matters);
• business acquisition disputes;
• companies’ internal disputes (including disputes with and between shareholders);
• professional liability (and disciplinary law) of accountants, attorneys and tax lawyers;
• directors’ and officers’ liability;
• insurance law;
• civil procedural law (including attachment and execution law);
• private international law;
• arbitration and all associated matters, including setting-aside proceedings, requests for enforcement, etc.;

Examples of some of our past and ongoing cases:

• handling an international product liability case for a multinational in the chemical industry;
• assisting the owner of a food and beverage establishment in a dispute with a brewery;
• representing a contractor in a case revolving around damaged cables and pipelines;
• handling a dispute about the correct interpretation of insurance policy conditions;
• assisting advisers in a dispute concerning a business acquisition;
• fighting an arbitral award in setting-aside proceedings;
• handling an international professional liability case for a civil-law notary who had assisted with a cross-border transaction;
• representing a former executive of a healthcare company who was being held liable by a vendor;
• enforcing an arbitral award against Libya;
• representing a foreign (European) state that had been summoned in proceedings in the Netherlands, in a case involving questions of immunity;
• representing a non-Dutch shareholder (an institutional investor) in the settlement of the Fortis class action;
• assisting a German Mittelstand company in an international commercial dispute against a Dutch multinational;
• conducting arbitration proceedings about an internal dispute within a professional partnership;