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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...

On Wednesday, May 8th, we'll be hosting another GO!-NH meeting. GO!-NH is an accelerator program from the Province of North Holland and Innomics. The program accelerates startups and innovation teams from large organizations in a three-month program, from an idea to a company ready to take innovative solutions to market. They will receive training, tools, and professional...

Marlies van Schoonhoven-Sloot, a tenancy law attorney and partner at Wintertaling, has been nominated by Magna Carta for the "Lawyer of the Year 2019" award in the tenancy law category. Cast your vote here. Voting is open until May 3, 2019. Marlies van Schoonhoven-Sloot has been a lawyer since 2002. She advises and litigates in real estate, focusing on tenancy law. Her clients include both providers...

Marlies van Schoonhoven-Sloot is on the cover of this month's Magna Carta Magazine, Lease Law Leading Lawyers. She has previously made a significant contribution to the magazine. In two separate videos for MC magazine, she discusses terminating a lease agreement based on urgent personal use and the value of a bank guarantee in bankruptcy. Read the online magazine here...

Onno Cusell will join the Corporate | M&A department of Wintertaling Advocaten en Notarissen (lawyers and civil-law notaries) effective March 1, 2019. With his arrival, the practice now boasts nine specialists and includes guidance on (international) transactions, investments, and shareholder issues. Cusell previously worked as a corporate lawyer at Sterel cs. See his listing in the...

Mr. Smid and his colleagues at Wintertaling advised the developer of this logistics center (35,000 m²) located in Vianen. The development was recently fully leased and is included in an institutional real estate portfolio of a foreign investor. Read the full article here on the PropertyNL website.

Judge will not lose authority if the State fails to meet Urgenda's demand. Edo Smid's opinion in the FD. In the February 16th edition of the FD, Edsard van der Werf argues that the judge in the Urgenda case should have helped prevent a confrontation between the judiciary and politicians. Such a confrontation would be inconsistent with the principle that the various branches of government must balance each other out on an equal footing.

North Technology Group acquires MBrands International. Starting January 3rd, MBrands BV (Mystic and Magic Marine) and North Technology Group (North Kiteboarding) will merge into a new, dynamic company called North Actionsports Group. "For a family business like ours, this acquisition is a very special time. The main motivation for me has always been happiness...

“"The Chinese market isn't easy." Law firms with a China desk are largely positive about this. Some call it a gap in the market. At Ploum, however, the desk is already on the decline, as working with Chinese clients was deemed "too labor-intensive and time-consuming to be profitable." Bart Kasteleijn, a lawyer at Wintertaling's China desk, acknowledges that the Chinese...

Dutch litigation in English, the Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) On January 1st 2019 the Amsterdam state court will inaugurate a chamber specialized in international commercial litigation conducted entirely in the English language called the Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC). With this, the Netherlands is a frontrunner in a European trend including France, Germany and Belgium, akin to already operative...

Our tenancy law attorney, Marlies van Schoonhoven-Sloot, will soon be featured in Magna Charta, a journal published by the Academy of Legal Practice. Marlies is also an active speaker at conferences and for the Academy of Legal Practice. For example, on October 11, 2018, she presented a workshop on security provided for lease agreements in bankruptcy proceedings.