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On August 22, 2019, the preliminary draft of the Act amending the dispute settlement procedure and clarifying the admissibility requirements for the inquiry procedure was published. The preliminary draft aims to make the dispute settlement procedure more effective and to clarify the conditions for access to the inquiry procedure. The online consultation on this bill was open until November 22, 2019. On behalf of...

Wintertaling partner of GO!-NH On November 19, 2019, Wintertaling, together with Leapfunder, presented a presentation and workshop on the legal and economic aspects of startups and financing for the fourth time, as part of the GO!-NH accelerator program. GO!-NH is a program of the province of North Holland in which 13 startups and spin-offs are supported for three months through training, tools, and...

Wilfred Groustra and Bas van Vliet will be panelists at the Infra Innovation Market Day organized by Bouwend Nederland Regio Noord on Thursday, November 21st. https://www.bouwendnederland.nl/actueel/bijeenkomsten/6539/infra-innovatie-marktdag https://www.building.nl/nieuws/infra-innovatiemarktdag-op-21-november Wilfred Groustra will be responsible for the questions and statements about the PFAS problem. Bas...

Security vs. Privacy? A practical guide to the upcoming UBO regulations. The Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) register will be introduced on January 10, 2020. What does this entail? What does it mean for the privacy of individuals and companies included in this register (and who will be included)? And how far should a company go with identifying and verifying its customers? On November 26, 2020,...

Blog Case Law on Temporary Employment Contracts (Articles 7:690 and 7:691 of the Dutch Civil Code). Wintertaling Employment Law focuses its practice on virtually all aspects of flexible employment contracts: the distinction between temporary employment/payroll contracts and assignment contracts, aspects of qualifying as employers, the implications of the pay ratio requirement, and so on.

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...