Kennedy Van der Laan is well-versed in administrative enforcement law and data protection law, allowing it to advise on a range of contentious and non-contentious privacy issues. The firm excels in assisting clients in the financial, logistics, telecommunications, entertainment, and healthcare sectors. The team routinely undertakes investigations and enforcement proceedings carried out by data protection regulators both locally and internationally and recently formed a 24/7 incident response team. Hester de Vries, Quirine Tjeenk Willink, Rosalie Brand, and Judica Krikke all jointly chair the practice. De Vries handles issues at the forefront of data protection such as AI, open data, platforms for data sharing, and adtech. Litigator Tjeenk Willink is an enforcement law specialist, Brand was promoted to partner in 2023 and mainly supports clients with cybersecurity incidents. Krikke focuses on complex digital transformation processes, IT and cloud outsourcing issues. Elise Troll was appointed counsel in 2023 and advises on data protection particularly in relation to telecoms.

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‘Kennedy Van der Laan's team is uniquely positioned to provide world-class advise. They can leverage experience build up over the past 20 plus years and have a large team with legally, technically and commercially savvy players, not only at partner level. ’
‘Elise Troll is definitely on the rise. She is super smart, always available, very practical, comes with creative and out of the box solutions and is fun to work with. She is strong on both content and relationship. ’
‘The privacy lawyers of Kennedy Van der Laan have thorough knowledge of the GDPR and the Dutch Uitvoeringswet AVG. They are easily approachable and often provide direct support.'

Key clients

Meta Platforms Ireland
Sonos Inc.
Schiphol Group
TNT/FedEx
UNSense
Stichting BKR
Northwave
Translink Systems B.V.
Azerion
Stichting Aidsfonds – Soa Aids Nederland

Work highlights

Advised on a matter including a vast ransomware attack on an IT provider in Canada providing services to many market investigation bureaus, processing a vast amount of personal data of very many large companies.
Advising Northwave on various issues including notification obligations to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, Authority Financial Markets, National Cyber Security Centre and other supervisory authorities, customers and data subjects, ransom payments and liability claims.
Assisted Stichting BKR with legal proceedings against the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP). The AP imposed a fine of €830,000 on Stichting BKR for alleged violation of the GDPR - the district court lowered the fine to €668,000.

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