Tim de Greve
Tim is a leading complex commercial litigation practitioner. He has extensive experience across a wide range of areas, including contractual and tort disputes, professional liability, and corporate litigation. His expertise also covers directors' fraud, particularly the enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards. He has handled principal cases concerning legal privilege in the Netherlands.
Tim is a leading complex commercial litigation practitioner. He has extensive experience across a wide range of areas, including contractual and tort disputes, professional liability, and corporate litigation. His expertise also covers directors' fraud, particularly the enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards. He has handled principal cases concerning legal privilege in the Netherlands.
He represents leading listed companies, major financial institutions, and prominent privately held businesses, consistently delivering decisive results in matters where strategy, creativity, and tenacity are critical.
Tim combines deep expertise with a proven track record in both first instance and appellate proceedings, tackling intricate disputes that demand bold, results-driven advocacy. His strategic approach to complex business issues, willingness to navigate uncharted legal paths, and courage to bring fundamental cases to court consistently deliver progressive outcomes. This, together with his uncompromising, no-holds-barred mentality, has secured outstanding successes for many of his clients.
Selected experience
- Ballast Nedam – Landmark Infrastructure Dispute: Tim advised Ballast Nedam in a €500 million dispute over the Zuidbroek nitrogen plant, a project critical to the Netherlands’ gas supply.
- Eurogrit – Nationwide Asbestos Litigation: Tim guided Eurogrit through one of the largest industrial liability cases in the Netherlands, affecting over 800 sites.
- Box Consultants – Precedent-Setting Privilege Case: Tim secured the discontinuation of criminal proceedings against Box Consultants after proving structural violations of attorney-client privilege.
- Vantage Deepwater v. Petrobras – Cross-Border Enforcement: Tim enforced a USD 622 million arbitral award against Petrobras, coordinating Dutch and international proceedings to recover assets.
- BC Partners / United Group – Governance and Shareholder Dispute: Tim successfully defended BC Partners before the Enterprise Chamber, dismissing a shareholder investigation petition and protecting corporate control.
- Vale – Multijurisdictional Mass-Claims Litigation: Tim represents Vale in a €1,5 billion mass-damage case following a Brazilian dam failure, involving 78,000 claimants across multiple jurisdictions.
- Norsk Hydro – Amazon Environmental Mass Claims: Tim represents Norsk Hydro, the world’s leading aluminium and renewable energy company, in a series of mass damage claims alleging environmental harm by its affiliates in the Amazon region
Tim teaches at several legal academies. Besides his professional capabilities as a lawyer, Tim is a very active member of the Supervisory Board of the TEAM ALZHEIMER Foundation.
He has a master’s in law from Leiden University.
