Track Record

Onno successfully represented a company in proceedings in which the opposing party sought leave to call a third party in warranty. The court dismissed that request.

This landmark case concerned the annulment of an arbitral award. Following the Supreme Court’s judgment in cassation, greater weight must now be given to mediation clauses in agreements between professional parties.

In these summary proceedings, termination of the membership was held to be valid, and the court ruled that the association could not reasonably be required to allow continuation, so the plot had to be vacated and the member was ordered, subject to penalties, to cooperate with valuation and transfer of the garden shed.

On behalf of Dutch wine importers, Thomas successfully brought summary proceedings before the Amsterdam District Court against a well-known sommelier, who was ordered to publish a rectification. With more than 50,000 followers, the sommelier had to post a rectification on his Instagram page because he had wrongly accused the organisers of a South African wine tasting of racism.

Onno represented several foundation directors in a principled dispute with a fellow director about the performance of directors’ duties.

In proceedings about the dissolution and division of a general partnership (vof), the Rotterdam District Court held – after expert evidence – that the business was continued by the remaining partners and that they had to pay AMS’s client an amount for under-allocation, in addition to his legal costs.

Thomas successfully represented an Indonesian commercial agent in a dispute over an agency agreement with a Dutch company.

Together with Rosa, Marco successfully represented a construction company in a dispute with its client about whether the contract had been validly terminated or whether the work had to be settled on the basis of early termination in an unfinished state.

Together with Marco, Rosa represented a German construction company in a construction dispute with a client/main contractor. The main contractor had terminated the contract and claimed damages. We successfully argued that there had been termination in an unfinished state and obtained payment of the remaining contract price (minus saved costs).