Litigation

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• Corporate/commercial: The thrust of our disputes work out of Amsterdam consists of a range of corporate litigation such as shareholder disputes, joint venture disputes, securities litigation, directors' and supervisory board members liability. At the same time, on the commercial litigation side, we act in mass and class actions and separately act in contract disputes between businesses including agency, franchise and distribution agreements, and sale/purchase transactions.
• Cross-border cases: Around 80% of the disputes led out of the Amsterdam office have an international angle.
• Public-sector/government-related disputes: We handle large, high-stakes and often highly sensitive matters involving both the Dutch state and foreign government departments.
• International arbitration: We regularly work on international arbitrations, with a focus on post-arbitration litigation in enforcing and annulment of arbitral awards through domestic courts.
• Enforcing judgments: An area where we have developed a strong name is in enforcing foreign court judgments in the Netherlands. Our partners have acquired extensive experience of prejudgment attachments and execution of foreign judgments and securities in the Netherlands and have acted in multiple high-profile matters in this field.
• Antitrust litigation: Over the last 15 years we have been involved in the most high-profile cartel damages cases in in the Netherlands, such as the cathode ray tubes, beer, air cargo, elevators and escalators cases.