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Stibbe

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Stibbe mainly advises clients on data compliance regulations and ensuring that clients can keep up-to-date with new legislative requirements. The team assists the firms’ finance, employment, and administrative law practices with data privacy and data protection aspects of their work. Cyber insurance is also a notable focus of the practice. Team lead Nynke Brouwer is a specialist in cyber security and cyber insurance issues, she handles advisory and contentious work for clients such as insurers, brokers, healthcare, and public authorities. Frederiek Fernhout is also noted.

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Key clients

  • The Dutch State
  • KLM
  • Qaring
  • CIP
  • BDO

Work highlights

  • Advised APG on data protection issues regarding vitality of employees
  • Advised TNO on data protection issues regarding sick absence of employees, including the use of complex anonymization techniques.
  • Advised the Dutch State on data protection issues, e.g. the DPIA, regarding new legislation on levying toll.

Lawyers

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Nynke Brouwer

Nynke Brouwer

Stibbe

Nynke has been a lawyer since 2011, specialising in cyber security, data protection and incident response services, and has specific knowledge in the field of cyber insurance. She also has extensive experience with advising and litigating for a wide range of clients, including insurers and brokers, healthcare institutions and public authorities. Nynke was awarded the national title of Legal Woman of the Year in 2021. In that same year, Nynke received her PhD from Radboud University for her dissertation 'A Legal Perspective on Cyber Insurance' (De cyberverzekering vanuit civielrechtelijk perspectief), published by Wolters Kluwer. Nynke wrote her dissertation as an external PhD candidate in four years, alongside her work as a lawyer. Nynke remains affiliated with the Radboud Business Law Institute as a research fellow. As an ancillary position, Nynke is chair of the Technical Committee Cyber, which is part of the Dutch Insurance Exchange Association (VNAB). She has written numerous research papers and case commentaries on cyber insurance, cyber security and data protection. Nynke has been an invited speaker at many Dutch and international conferences and symposia, including INTERSCT, PI.lab, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), the Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC-NL), One Conference, and the Academy of European Law (ERA). Nynke is also a lecturer for the post-academic specialisation courses Grotius Privacy Law (Radboud) and Cybercrime & Cybersecurity (Leiden), and a member of the editorial board of Computerrecht, a Dutch-Belgian academic journal.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nynke Brouwer

Other key lawyers

Frederiek Fernhout