Tom Barkhuysen

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 - Alongside other pro bono efforts from law firms across the world – amongst Mayer Brown – Stibbe has contributed to a multi-jurisdictional report looking at challenges to the independence of the judiciary throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experience - The Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports has imposed new obligations on the 'Nu Niet Zwanger' project of the GGD as a result of administrative appeal proceedings initiated by Bureau Clara Wichmann and the Dutch Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (NJCM). Stibbe assisted Bureau Clara Wichmann and the NJCM pro bono in these administrative appeal proceedings.

Experience - Stibbe advised the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy on securing new funding for SMART Photonics.

Experience - Stibbe advises Invest-NL on its incorporation regarding public law aspects. The official launch of Invest-NL takes place today in Amsterdam in the presence of Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra and Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Eric Wiebes.

Experience - Stibbe is advising Eneco on the sale of all shares in Eneco to a consortium led by Mitsubishi Corporation for a total equity value of EUR 4.1 billion.

Experience - Many residents of Curaçao suffer due to severe air pollution from the Isla oil refinery. With Stibbe’s help, a number of residents living under 'the smoke of Isla', alongside environmental organisations, have sued the state of Curacao for wrongful acts towards them.

Experience - Following the introduction of a new national financial distribution model, the large municipalities of The Hague, 's-Hertogenbosch, Amersfoort and Utrecht have been allocated insufficient government funds to finance social security payments. On 1 July 2019, the Central Appeals Tribunal ruled that this was unlawful and instructed the Ministry of Social Affairs to find a new distribution method.

Experience - Stibbe represented EY in an appeal before the Industrial Appeal Court (College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven; CBb) filed by the AFM after the Rotterdam District Court's decision at the end of 2017 to annul the fines imposed by the AFM. The Rotterdam District Court had ruled that the AFM had not proved that EY (and PwC) had breached its duty of care.

Experience - On Friday 6 July, the District Court Midden-Nederland ruled in the summary proceedings filed by Beter Onderwijs Nederland (BON) against Maastricht University, among others, about providing courses in English at Dutch universities. All claims filed by BON have been rejected.