Known for its presence in global international disputes, DLA Piper boasts a strong practice in the Netherlands which regularly handles high-stakes international and cross-border mandates. The scope of the practice is considerable, ranging from financial services, corporate and commercial litigation to ESG litigation and class actions. Team lead Marnix Holtzer is known for his expertise in corporate litigation and has been key in growing the practice’s class actions offering. Paul Hopman and Ewald Netten are go-to litigators for financial institutions; Hopman is frequently active in high-profile financial litigation and Netten focuses on major cross-border cases and contentious restructuring matters. ESG-related disputes are handled by Michiel Coenraads, while Frank van de Wakker is also noted.
Testimonials
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‘Marnix Holtzer is a very knowledgeable, experienced and thorough lawyer.’
‘Top legal quality, good results, great people to work with, very responsive, with a great attitude in court.’
‘Over the years, the DLA team has proven to be easily accessible, responsive, knowledgeable and easy to work with. The company culture of the Dutch team is down to earth and efficient while dealing with our requests.’
‘The team has proven to have thorough knowledge about our industry, products and business model, making it effective and efficient for us to work with DLA. Its support has proven valuable to reduce losses for ourselves and our partners and respond proactively to threats.’
‘Very involved and caring. They respond quickly and give practical, hands-on advice. They have invested time to get to know us and our business needs well. They are knowledgeable in their field and have global reach through their offices and network.’
‘Ewald Netten is knowledgeable, fast, responsive, and highly caring.’
‘DLA Piper's dispute resolution team in the Netherlands is really strong. They are especially renowned for ESG litigation. They are market leading in business, human rights and climate change cases, but also other complex cross-border cases with an emerging markets angle. Excellent case management, efficient, and seamless and pleasant collaboration with our in-house team.’
‘Michiel Coenraads is smart, solutions driven, very commercial, and he understands our business and sector like no one else. He is really convincing - in the court room, in negotiations, or when presenting complex stuff to our board. He has a really international mindset, which is what you need for the complex cross-border cases!’
Key clients
- AbbVie
- ABN AMRO
- ACT Commodities
- Adriaan van Erk
- Amtrust International Underwriters DAC
- Ballast Nedam
- Bayer AG
- Coinbase
- Crossroads European Holdings
- Generali Insurance Asset Management
- Harel
- HFM Solutions
- HunterDouglas
- ING Bank N.V.
- KBC Bank
- Laureate
- Liberty Mutual Surety
- Nike
- Nutreco
- OSI
- Petronas
- Rabobank
- Rijksmuseum
- SABIC
- Shell
- SNS Reaal
- Stena AB
- STX Commodities
- TMF
- Unilever
- Veenboer en Dochters B.V.
- Van Cranenbroek
Work highlights
- Representing the bondholders (Generali Insurance Asset Management) in a cross-border dispute with several publicly traded issuers of bonds of approximately half a billion euros.
- Representing several executive board members of SNS Reaal and SNS Bank in high-profile disputes, defending the client against claims of former shareholders.
- Representing Bayer in highly sensitive class action proceedings in the Netherlands of potentially several hundreds of millions of euros brought by female claimants who assert the birth control device ‘Essure’ caused serious health complications.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Marnix Holtzer