Aviation

Experience - Stibbe advises ID Logistics on the acquisition of GVT Transport & Logistics for an enterprise value of EUR 80 million.

Experience - A team of Stibbe in Amsterdam has won a case for Twente Airport in what has become known in the east of the country as the 'Boeing dispute'.

Experience - After successfully advising EME, Dyme, Hardt Hyperloop and Skoon, Stibbe in Amsterdam is happy to announce that platform startup Level.Works is the latest participant to join the StartsUP programme. In addition, we are glad to be able to continue advising Skoon on its development of a sharing platform for large mobile energy batteries.

Experience - Stibbe represented KLM Catering Services (KCS) and KLM in preliminary relief proceedings. As part of a national catering strike, KLM Catering Services employees walked out of work in order to achieve an improved collective labour agreement. The court ruled that these strikes could not affect KLM's intercontinental flights. 

Experience - Stibbe assisted Spirit Aerosystems with the acquisition of Asco.

Experience - On 28 March 2018, carrier Connexxion launched the largest fleet of electric buses to date. The zero emission buses will be used to transport travellers to and from Schiphol Airport,  showing that the Netherlands is a front runner in the field of sustainable public transport in Europe.

Experience - Stibbe represented Transavia in a strike organised by the union of air line pilots (VNV) during the holiday season.

Experience - Stibbe has advised Ballast Nedam on an extensive restructuring of its group structure and real property portfolio.

Experience - Stibbe represented KLM in summary proceedings against airline pilots, based on which KLM was allowed to terminate a pension financing agreement and avoid a EUR 600 million claim. Furthermore, we litigated against the works council in order to get approval for the amendment of the pension scheme.

Experience - Stibbe advised Vervoerregio Amsterdam on the concession for public transport by bus for the Amstelland-Meerlanden region. This concession is the largest concession in value for public transport by bus in the Netherlands, worth approximately EUR 1 billion.

Experience - Stibbe advises Schiphol Amsterdam Airport on various public law issues, including a matter relating to the expansion of Schiphol's subsidiary, Lelystad Airport. Several local residents, and the Society for the Protection of Birds, appealed against the zoning plan allowing the expansion of Lelystad Airport.

Experience - Stibbe assists the Belgian Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport on suspension-and-annulment proceedings before the Council of State regarding night-flight routes as well as a civil litigation before ordinary courts.