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1 September 2023 - News
Lindenbaum expands its practice with the arrival of Guido Vergouwen as a partner. Vergouwen will split his time between the Amsterdam office and a new office in Eindhoven, which he will open for the firm.
Read more5 May 2023 - Insights
The ECJ has provided its decision in the UI/Österreichische Post AG case (“UI-case”). The decision is important, because it further clarifies under which conditions damages can be claimed in response to GDPR-infringements. In this contribution, we outline the key findings by the ECJ in the UI-case.
Read more2 May 2023 - Insights
On 28 April 2023 Damiën Berkhout was a panelist at the Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference. Damiën discussed under what conditions the assignment model can be used to litigate mass tort claims, and commented that the model will continue to exist even now that opt-out class action opportunities exist in The Netherlands.
Read more27 April 2023 - Publications
Lindenbaum partner Stefan Tuinenga wrote an article in the Dutch competition law journal Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk about the reluctancy of Dutch courts to provide access to cartel information in damages cases, and the tension this causes with the antitrust damages directive.
Read more13 April 2023 - News
Lindenbaum welcomes Dizzy van Duijn. Dizzy will join the firm as a paralegal, specializing in antitrust litigation and collective actions.
Read more30 March 2023 - Insights
In the QB/Mercedes-Benz judgment the European Court of Justice confirmed that consumers who purchased a vehicle with an ‘unlawful defeat device’ have a right to compensation from vehicle manufacturers.
Read more7 March 2023 - News
Lindenbaum is proud to be a partner of Bridges Network.
Bridges network sets itself the target to bridge the gap between law students with a multicultural background and commercial law firms, notaries and fiscal firms. This all with the objective to enhance diversity and inclusivity within commercial law practice.
2 March 2023 - Insights
In the cases PACCAR and Ferrer, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled on the scope of the right of access to evidence, and on the connection between this right and the national courts’ authority to estimate damages, under the antitrust damages directive.
Read more1 February 2023 - News
The law firm Lindenbaum opens its offices in Amsterdam. The firm specializes in complex commercial and corporate litigation, with a focus on class actions and antitrust litigation on the plaintiff side. The firm’s attorneys have been involved in some of the largest settlements and disputes in Europe.
Read more29 January 2023 - Publications
Stefan Tuinenga wrote an article about Sumal, the seminal ECJ judgment on antitrust liability, in the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice.
Read more28 January 2023 - Publications
In Meta Platforms, the ECJ clarified the conditions that article 80 (2) GDPR provides for representative actions involving GDPR-rights. Damiën Berkhout has published a case note on this decision.
Read more24 January 2023 - News
On 24 January 2023, Damiën Berkhout provided a lecture on Dutch collective actions under the WAMCA at Utrecht University.
Read more29 October 2022 - Publications
Stefan Tuinenga and Reinier Lamberti wrote the yearly overview of antitrust litigation cases before Dutch civil courts for the journal Markt & Mededinging.
Read more10 September 2022 - News
On 10 September 2022, Stefan Tuinenga spoke on "the new frontier of collective actions" at the 26th IBA Annual Competition Conference in Florence. Topics of discussion included trends, challenges, and differences in approach to collective actions around the world.
Read more31 January 2020 - Publications
Damiën Berkhout provides an anlysis of the collective action developments in the Netherlands in the year 2019 for the Corporate Litigation Association. He also provides a forward look, and discusses the expected value of 2019 case law for the new WAMCA regime.
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