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Paula Schouten has been a candidate civil-law notary at Wintertaling in Amsterdam since 2016. Until then, her life revolved around sports. She was an avid rugby player for nine years, five of which she played professionally. Click here for the full article.

Administrative and civil law aspects: The media are full of reports about the hundreds of projects that have been canceled as a result of the Council of State's rulings on the Nitrogen Action Programme (PAS) and, equally urgently, regulations regarding PFAS. This Wintertaling workshop will examine the Council of State's PAS rulings and the PFAS bottlenecks from two perspectives: – the administrative...

SolarCreed wins FMO's 2019 Finture Solutions Challenge. SolarCreed is one of the winners of FMO's 2019 Finture Solutions Challenge. Finture Solutions focuses on scaling up start-ups that have a positive impact in emerging markets. SolarCreed's solutions support food production for farmers in Nigeria, thus contributing to the food security of local...

The proposal for a Private Composition Scheme Act (WHOA), submitted on July 5, 2019, allows a company threatened with insolvency to impose a compulsory composition on its creditors and shareholders, outside of suspension of payments and bankruptcy proceedings. The WHOA proposal is inspired by the British Scheme of Arrangement and the American Chapter 11 procedure.

Presentation WAB by Wilfred Groustra and Jennifer Horsten

Sympower Raises €3 Million in Series A Financing Round. Sympower, an international scale-up in the energy transition, has raised €3 million in a Series A financing round from Dutch investment funds Social Impact Ventures and Participatiefonds Duurzame Economie Noord-Holland (PDENH), existing investors, and its own team. The investment will finance international growth...

Wintertaling Advocaten & Notarissen is the Dutch member of IR Global, a multidisciplinary network for professional services that advises companies and individuals in more than 155+ legal areas. (more…)

The Financieel Dagblad reported today that following the partial collapse of a parking garage floor at Eindhoven Airport two years ago, the calculation rules for existing buildings with wide-slab floors have been tightened. Building owners will even be required to conduct an inspection. Buildings in the highest risk category (consequence class) will have to be assessed by January 1, 2012. Until...

On September 23, 2019, Paula Schouten, Jasper Franke, and Tim Carapiet, members of the Wintertaling Startup Desk, participated in the Amsterdam Capital Tour XXL: the special Capital Tour by Night edition, as part of the Amsterdam Capital House (formerly Amsterdam Capital Week). This year, Wintertaling was once again a proud sponsor of this fantastic event that brings startups and capital together within...

Holland Capital invests in Valori. Investment firm Holland Capital has acquired a majority stake in Valori, the largest independent software testing and quality assurance provider in the Netherlands. With its chosen strategy, Valori aims to further strengthen its position in software testing and quality assurance and achieve a turnover of approximately EUR 50 million. Valori was founded...

Balanced Labor Market Act Workshop for temporary employment agencies (specifically back-office service providers/users) and payroll employers When: Thursday, August 22, 2019 Where: Wintertaling Attorneys & Civil-Law Notaries ………………. Antonio Vivaldistraat 66 ………………. 1083 HP Amsterdam 4:00 PM Doors open 4:30 PM...

A new Business Valuation program will begin at Nyenrode Business University in September 2019. Marein Smits of Wintertaling Attorneys and Civil-Law Notaries has been a lecturer in the Registered Valuator (RV) program at various institutions for 10 years. The program is aimed at professionals involved in valuing businesses and professionals who...

  On June 5, 2019, CICERO's National Moot Court Competition (CLP) took place in the Amsterdam courthouse. This competition is organized annually by the Amsterdam-based moot court society CICERO, of which Wintertaling is the main sponsor. Teams of law students from universities across the country gathered to showcase their moot court skills. The CLP is a speed-dating competition. Participants...

Earlier this year, MBrands BV (Mystic and Magic Marine) and North Technology Group (North Kiteboarding) decided to merge to form a new, dynamic company called North Actionsports Group. MBrands International was assisted by Marein Smits of Wintertaling lawyers and civil-law notaries. Marein was interviewed by Lawyer Monthly Magazine about this acquisition. You can read the interview here...

Background to the reason for a new form of expedited litigation: If a judge requires a swift assessment, summary proceedings can be initiated. Such summary proceedings can indeed take place at very short notice, in exceptional cases even within a few hours, in the evenings and on weekends (!) if the urgent interest is sufficiently acute. However well the function...