Can Dutch casting agency Kemna Casting get rid of shareholder Job Gosschalk?
The Dutch casting agency Kemna Casting wants to break all ties with Job Gosschalk, ...
Setting up a business in The Netherlands
If a company wishes to establish a subsidiary in The Netherlands, a choice will ...
Equity interest sold at (in retrospect) an excessively low price. What to do now?
It is not uncommon that a shareholder sells their equity interest for a price ...
Unlawful deregistration of a director of a foundation
It happens in the best foundations: falling-out between directors. A recently ...
Action against trademark infringement in the Netherlands? Assess your chances of success in a lawsuit!
Recently, a trademark owner in the Netherlands stood up against an (alleged) trademark ...
One shareholder excludes the other, what can you do?
An earlier blog by Dutch lawyer Hein Hoogendoorn explained that in preliminary ...
Unjustified suspension of payment of shares. What are the consequences?
A debtor whose claim has become due and payable to his creditor is authorised ...
Interim relief judge: enforcing judgment is abuse of power
The mere fact that someone has the (legal) power to take a certain action, does ...
Multinational sidelined in sale of their own shares
In this action, a multinational in agricultural products in the Netherlands tried ...
Enterprise Division can overrule arbitration
If valid arbitration has been agreed between parties, in principle the ‘normal’ ...
Substitute authorization for shareholders’ meeting
In the Netherlands, a shareholder can exert influence on the board in different ...
Informal loans: make up a contract and keep receipts of payments
In daily life people frequently lend money to family or friends. These loans are ...
Resolving a deadlock between shareholders
Many companies have only two shareholders who each hold 50% of the shares. In ...
Do bank guarantees provide security for underlying legal relationship?
In the Netherlands, bank guarantees are common financing arrangements and are ...
Muslim slaughterhouse sues State for instructions on slaughtering
Shortly before last month’s Feast of Sacrifice, a Muslim slaughterhouse instituted ...
Marital attachment of spouse’s shares in BV: is that possible?
Marital attachment is a special type of preservation order that one of the spouses ...
Company has duty of care towards minority shareholder in The Netherlands
According to recent Dutch corporate case law a company has a special duty of care ...
If you have received a summons: advice from a Dutch lawyer
If a party has a monetary money claim against another party, but the other party ...
Director personally liable for debt to creditor?
Creditor X was ordered by the Dutch court to pay more than € 45,000 to a private ...
Shareholders’ agreement decisive in conflict
In January 2014, the judge hearing the application for interim relief at the Amsterdam ...
