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- Corporate law in The Netherlands 8 October 2016 3 min
Company has duty of care towards minority shareholder in The Netherlands
…company has a special duty of care towards a minority shareholder. This means (inter alia) that the company should try to prevent that her interests conflicts with the interests of…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 13 August 2016 3 min
Shareholders’ agreement decisive in conflict
…pronounce on the continued operativeness on a company of a shareholders’ agreement. Company law specialist Marco Guit explains the judgment by the judge hearing the application for…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 22 February 2016 2 min
Buy out of shareholders in The Netherlands
…Hidde Reitsma frequently sees two or more (groups of) shareholders in a company being in a stalemate situation. They want to get rid of each other, but they cannot agree on the…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 14 November 2015 3 min
Deadlock in shareholders meeting: inquiry proceedings?
In so-called inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, the Enterprise Division of the court can break a deadlock by, among others,…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 24 September 2015 4 min
Liability of director versus shareholder: this is how it works!
…wears two different hats under corporate law: that of shareholder and that of director. This difference plays a part, among others, in determining the personal liability of that…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 1 August 2015 3 min
Retaining profits KLM in conflict with duty of care minority shareholders?
…decision in the ongoing litigation between VEB (a Dutch shareholders association) and Air France KLM. VEB had demanded for higher dividends. The question is if the resolution of…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 28 April 2015 4 min
The right to place items on the agenda: a powerful weapon for shareholders
…items on the agenda can be a powerful tool. In this way shareholders can apply pressure to the board, or, as the case may be, the company. Recently, a dispute about adding an item…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 5 March 2015 3 min
Court disregards stipulation in shareholders’ agreement
…relief proceedings – that invoking the regulation in a shareholders’ agreement that a decision to dismiss a director should be adopted unanimously, was contrary to the principles…
- Uncategorized 8 June 2026 4 min
Enterprise Chamber breaks deadlock in 50/50 joint venture through appointment of an independent director
Deadlocks between shareholders with equal voting rights are among the most common disputes brought before the Enterprise Chamber. We often see this in disputes between estranged…
- Dutch contract law 15 April 2026 5 min
Who picks up the bill?
A recent Enterprise Chamber decision on budget increases as a starting point for a practical overview of cost allocation in inquiry proceedings Introduction Who pays for an inquiry…