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15 januari 2025 - Insights
In this post, we analyse the interesting WAMCA decision rendered by the Midden-Nederland district court in the Essure case. Some key lessons are to be learned about the temporal scope of the WAMCA, and a new framework is provided to stress test funding arrangements.
Lees meer28 november 2024 - News
On 6 November 2024, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on the methodology to be used for the damage calculation in follow-on claims of indirect purchasers from the air cargo cartel.
Lees meer13 november 2024 - Insights
Milieudefensie et al. claimed that Shell has a societal duty of care to reduce its emissions by 2030 with 45% compared to 2019. In first instance the District Court of The Hague ruled in favor of Milieudefensie et al. The Court of Appeal overturned the District Court’s decision and rejected the claims.
Lees meer5 november 2024 - Insights
AG Szpunar confirms in an opinion for the ECJ that the right for injured parties of a competition law infringement to assign their claims to a litigation vehicle for the purpose of starting damages proceedings follows directly from the cartel prohibition of Article 101 TFEU. Moreover, national rules that make the assignment of antitrust damages claims impossible or excessively difficult should be disapplied.
Lees meer25 oktober 2024 - Publications
The International Comparative Legal Guide - Class and Group Actions 2025 has been published on 23 October 2025. Our colleagues Noor Hogerzeil, Simon Mineur and Damiën Berkhout have written the chapter on The Netherlands. This chapter provides an analysis of the Dutch class action system, and covers common issues including actions by representative organizations, court procedures, time limits, remedies, costs and funding.
Lees meer24 oktober 2024 - Insights
Advocate-General Kokott of the ECJ has delivered an important opinion on the application of the presumption of decisive influence in the context of a jurisdictional analysis under the recast Brussels I Regulation.
Lees meer16 oktober 2024 - Insights
The Dutch collective redress system continues to be dynamic, with interesting decisions being provided by the courts. In this class action update, Noor Hogerzeil and Damiën Berkhout provide comments on two recent cases. In the first case, the Dutch Supreme Court provides an important decision on the applicable limitation period for individuals after a successful collective action. In the second case, the court provides more clarity on the admissibility requirements in case of general interest and ESG claims.
Lees meer25 september 2024 - Insights
Lindenbaum is moving to its new Amsterdam offices at Concertgebouwplein 13. We look forward to meeting you there.
Lees meer5 september 2024 - Insights
Lindenbaum's managing partner Damiën Berkhout provided legal and governance advice to the management board of Beequip in the context of the transaction between NIBC and Apollo.
Lees meer5 september 2024 - News
The Amsterdam District Court ruled that the representative organization Stichting Farma Ter Verantwoording is admissible in its collective action against pharmaceutical giant AbbVie. The case now moves on to the merits phase, in which the court will assess whether Abbvie abused its dominant position and violated human rights by charging excessive prices for its Humira medicine.
Lees meer28 augustus 2024 - Insights
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has provided guidance for future Dutch mass tort cases in its decision in the matter between The Privacy Collective and Oracle and Salesforce.
Lees meer12 augustus 2024 - Publications
Lindenbaum-partner Guido Vergouwen heeft een annotatie geschreven voor de JIN over problemen bij vernietiging van een aandelenkoop naar aanleiding van het Hoge Raad-arrest Rookie/ABC Hekwerk c.s.
Lees meer2 mei 2024 - Insights
Lindenbaum is pleased to announce that Sophie van Everdingen has joined the firm as of 1 May 2024. Sophie joins the firm as Counsel. She has extensive experience in commercial disputes. This with a focus on antitrust damages cases and cross-border litigation.
Lees meer25 april 2024 - Insights
Lindenbaum covered the significant recent developments in cartel litigation in the Netherlands in an article for Global Legal Insights.
Lees meer30 maart 2024 - News
We are proud to share that Lindenbaum has been ranked in the Legal 500 as one of the leading firms in the Netherlands in the EMEA 2024 rankings. The firm has been ranked in the "Dispute resolution: class actions category", and is noted as a “firm to watch” in the "Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation" and "EU and Competition categories".
Lees meer20 februari 2024 - News
The International Bar Association will be hosting their three-day Annual Litigation Forum in Amsterdam from 17 to 19 April 2024. This year the Forum will revolve around key litigation themes such as The Hague Convention, cross-border enforcement, the handling of expert witnesses, and trends in class actions. Lindenbaum will be sponsoring the conference diner, and our partners Guido Vergouwen and Damiën Berkhout will be delegates at the Forum.
Lees meer15 februari 2024 - Insights
The Supreme Court ruled in two recent judgments that reassuring statements, made by the liable person, may cause that the injured party does not yet have the necessary knowledge and insight for the (short) limitation period of Art. 3:310 (1) of the Civil Code to start.
Lees meer1 februari 2024 - News
Lindenbaum is pleased to announce that it is further expanding its antitrust litigation practice with the arrival of Simon Mineur (associate) and Niels Wessel (paralegal).
Lees meer19 januari 2024 - Insights
Managing partner Damien Berkhout published an article regarding collective damages actions and privacy violations for Data & Privacyweb. This in response to the recent TikTok WAMCA ruling by the Amsterdam District Court.
Lees meer2 januari 2024 - News
Lindenbaum is pleased to announce that it is expanding its litigation practice with the arrival of Noor Hogerzeil (counsel) and Serap Akbaba (legal trainee). Lindenbaum is also pleased to announce the promotion of Dizzy van Duijn to the role of associate (advocaat-stagair).
Lees meer23 oktober 2023 - Publications
Lindenbaum partner Stefan Tuinenga wrote a blog post on the Kluwer Competition Law Blog about the decision of the District Court of Amsterdam to refer preliminary questions to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on regional jurisdiction (also referred to as ‘territorial’ jurisdiction) in the context of a WAMCA (Act on Damages Claims in a Collective Action) collective action claim brought by representative organizations for consumers against Apple.
Lees meer18 oktober 2023 - News
Our managing partner Damiën Berkhout, is one of the founding members of the Mass Tort Lawyers Association (Vereniging Massaschade Advocaten, "VMA"). The VMA will help to further develop a strong class action system, and promote access to justice.
Lees meer1 september 2023 - News
Lindenbaum breidt haar praktijk uit met de komst van Guido Vergouwen als partner. Vergouwen zal zijn tijd verdelen tussen het Amsterdamse kantoor en een nieuw kantoor in Eindhoven, dat hij voor Lindenbaum opent.
Lees meer5 mei 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.
Lees meer2 mei 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.
Lees meer27 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.
Lees meer13 april 2023 - News
Lindenbaum welcomes Dizzy van Duijn. Dizzy will join the firm as a paralegal, specializing in antitrust litigation and collective actions.
Lees meer30 maart 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.
Lees meer7 maart 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 maart 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.
Lees meer1 februari 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.
Lees meer29 januari 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.
Lees meer28 januari 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.
Lees meer24 januari 2023 - News
On 24 January 2023, Damiën Berkhout provided a lecture on Dutch collective actions under the WAMCA at Utrecht University.
Lees meer29 oktober 2022 - Publications
Stefan Tuinenga and Reinier Lamberti wrote the yearly overview of antitrust litigation cases before Dutch civil courts for the journal Markt & Mededinging.
Lees meer10 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.
Lees meer31 januari 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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