Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences

Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Willemien Bischot
Van Doorne
Willemien heads Van Doorne’s Healthcare & and Life Sciences practice. Willemien advises healthcare providers, private investment companies and related community interest companies on such issues as mergers and joint ventures, funding and financing, corporate governance, contractual relationships with healthcare insurers, municipalities and grant providers, disputes, employee relations, restructuring and recovery. She also assists clients in raising private capital.
Otto Swens
Vondst Advocaten N.V
Otto Swens is co-founder and partner. Otto’s practice has a focus on patents and life sciences. Otto advises and litigates particularly in the field of pharmaceuticals & life sciences, chemistry, medical devices and mechanical engineering. Otto has a broad experience in representing clients in multijurisdictional cross-border litigation concerning pharmaceutical patents and SPCs. Otto is also active in the regulatory practice. He advises and litigates on issues such as data- and market exclusivity, marketing authorisations for (orphan) medicinal products and peadiatric extensions. Further, Otto advises about aspects such as pricing, parallel imports, reimbursements, product liability and promotion.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Jaap Bremer
BarentsKrans
Jaap specialises in trade mark, copyright and design (‘soft IP’) disputes and transactions, as well as in patent disputes. He represents clients from various industries, particularly the food, telecommunications, media/social media and automotive industries. He assists clients in negotiating on and arranging the transfer of trade mark and patent portfolios, collaboration and R&D agreements, licensing agreements and technology transfers.
Diederik Schrijvershof
Maverick Advocaten N.V.
Diederik has experience in all areas of European and Dutch competition law. Diederik has extensive experience with complex merger control issues, including second phase proceedings at both the European Commission and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets. He also assisted companies during dawn raids. Diederik submitted leniency applications to these authorities besides working on cartel investigations and proceedings. He advised companies on co-operation and distribution agreements and allegations of abuse of a dominant position. Diederik is familiar with the ins and outs of competition law in various sectors. Seconded to Shell as antitrust counsel he gained experience with competition law in the oil and gas industry. He also has in depth knowledge of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector. In 2010 and 2011 he was employed as a regulator by the Dutch Healthcare Authority. He is a frequent speaker and contributor to journals on competition law. Diederik is one of the founding partners of Maverick Advocaten N.V.
Martijn van de Hel
Maverick Advocaten N.V.
Martijn van de Hel has comprehensive experience of European and Dutch competition law. He has advised businesses in many sectors on different forms of collaboration such as joint ventures, distribution and franchise agreements and purchasing combinations. He also has considerable experience in leniency applications and with dawn raids and cartel investigations by the Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) and the European Commission. He is an experienced advisor on cartel-related damage claims (follow-on claims). Martijn has advised many businesses and public bodies on state aid and unfair competition from the government. He has supported many companies in notifying the ACM and the European Commission of mergers or takeovers. He lectures frequently at seminars and training institutes and has penned numerous articles. Martijn was a partner at Boekel De Nerée before becoming a co-founder of Maverick Advocaten N.V.
Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

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