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- Litigation 12 December 2018 5 min
Dutch Supreme Court upholds CHF 402 million arbitral award in proceedings between Tiffany & Co. and Swatch
The Dutch Supreme Court delivered judgment in the annulment proceedings initiated by Tiffany & Co. against an arbitral award in which it was ordered to pay CHF 402 million (EUR 356…
- Intellectual Property law in the Netherlands 19 November 2018 4 min
How is compensation for copyright infringement determined in the Netherlands?
A dispute about copyright infringement goes beyond establishing that the copyrights of the copyright holder have been infringed. The next step is of course that the infringer must…
- Insolvency law in The Netherlands 12 November 2018 3 min
Filing for bankruptcy to dismiss an employee free of charge: abuse of Dutch bankruptcy law?
Employees enjoy dismissal protection under normal circumstances. They cannot simply be dismissed. Moreover, an employee who is not to blame for the dismissal is entitled to a…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 5 November 2018 3 min
Violation of the Dutch Beklamel criterion by directors of a bankrupt construction company?
…is in financial hard times. If a director concludes a contract on their company’s […]
- Dutch procedural law 22 October 2018 4 min
How does an emergency arbitrator under ICC Rules decide on a request for security?
The Dutch Court in preliminary relief proceedings for lifting attachments put an end to four attachments worth more than 1 billion dollars, partly because 187.5 million dollars had…
- Dutch contract law 13 October 2018 4 min
General Terms and Conditions: The Brussels I Regulation
A Dutch wholesaler and a Polish company had become involved in a dispute. The wholesaler brought proceedings before the Rotterdam District Court. The Polish company believed that…
- Insolvency law in The Netherlands 1 October 2018 3 min
Is it possible to be declared insolvent if payment obligations in bitcoins are not fulfilled?
A company had been ordered in default to pay out ‘mining revenues’ totalling 0.591 bitcoin subject to a periodic penalty payment of €10,000. Because the company did not meet this…
- Dutch contract law 10 September 2018 3 min
Breach of duty of care by ex-manager of Dutch DJ Afrojack
…by his ex-manager because he had sacked his manager. Contract […]
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 3 September 2018 3 min
Directors’ and officers’ liability after a company is wound up in the Netherlands
The winding up of a company generally means the discontinuation of the legal entity. Although this is a nuisance for the unpaid creditors of the wound-up company, it does not…
- Corporate law in The Netherlands 4 July 2018 3 min
Does a board’s mismanagement in the Netherlands automatically constitute directors’ and officers’ liability?
If the Netherlands Enterprise Court has found that there was mismanagement in a company, can this automatically be attributed to a director? The Dutch Corporate Law Lawyer Hidde…