To secure the transparency required to fight money laundering and terrorism financing pursuant to the EU Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directives, the Netherlands will now implement a public register of Ultimate
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On 29 April 2020 the Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) handed down a decision regarding a contractual break-up fee in an M&A transaction affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Als gevolg van de coronacrisis moeten veel bedrijven noodgedwongen hun deuren (letterlijk of figuurlijk) sluiten. Daarmee neemt ook de vraag naar producten en diensten af of komt juist de aanvoer in het gedrang. Veel bedrijven zien zich geconfronteerd met commerciële contracten waarvan zij de verplichtingen tot afname of levering niet meer kunnen of willen nakomen, of waarbij nakoming door gestegen kosten of gebrek aan afnemers onredelijke negatieve gevolgen zou hebben. De wet kent een regeling die in dergelijke gevallen uitkomst kan bieden: de onvoorziene omstandigheden.
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP Amsterdam Shareholders Herald Jongen, Thomas Timmermans, and associates Laurens Timmer and Eduard Stein, have authored the Netherlands Law & Practice chapter in the 2019 Chambers Global
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Legal scholars have been debating the method by which contractual provisions should be interpreted in the Netherlands since 1981, when the Dutch Supreme Court rendered its landmark Haviltex decision on
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The European Court of Justice ruled on March 14, 2019, that a parent company can in national civil tort proceedings also be held liable for the damage caused by a
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Een franchiseovereenkomst is een samenwerkingsovereenkomst waarbij de franchisegever en de franchisenemer afspreken dat de franchisenemer tegen vergoeding een licentie verkrijgt om de franchiseformule (naam, stijl, producten en/of diensten) van de
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Parties who do cross-border business often declare English law applicable in commercial contracts, accompanied by a jurisdiction clause making the English courts (exclusively) competent to hear claims arising out of
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Introduction
The rules governing seizure of a cross-border bank account in the EU follow from the EU Regulation establishing a European Account Preservation Order (EAPO). Such Regulation was created to
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