3008 results Damage due to a defective driveway and the Dutch twenty year limitation period On 22 March 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled (ECLI:NL:HR:2019:412) that the strict liability for buildings (opstalaansprakelijkheid) is not linked to a specific damaging act but to a damaging condition, as referred to in section 6:174 DCC. Therefore, t Handbook on the Netherlands Commercial Court published To coincide with the opening of the Netherlands Commercial Court, Matthijs Kuijpers of Stibbe Amsterdam has released the handbook on this new court setting out all relevant information concerning this new international court and what it may offer parties Les nouvelles règles wallonnes en matière d’expropriation entreront en vigueur le 1er juillet 2019 Les mesures d’exécution du décret wallon du 22 novembre 2018 relatif à la procédure d’expropriation adoptées par le Gouvernement ont été publiées le 25 février 2019 au Moniteur belge. Lifting attachments on assets of international organisations in another state Are Dutch courts entitled to lift a prejudgment attachment levied against an international organisation on its assets in another state? General Court sends Commission back to drawing board in Belgian tax rulings case The European Commission has suffered its first court defeat in a tax rulings case. The General Court recently overturned an order to recover over EUR 700 million worth of tax breaks from 55 beneficiaries. Buckle up: the ACM is racing ahead with speedy solutions and more fines The Dutch competition watchdog ACM will bite faster and fiercer, according to its new chairman Martijn Snoep. The ACM plans to shorten the length of its investigations by deciding on their merits sooner. Stibbe advises SurveyMonkey Stibbe advises SurveyMonkey on the acquisition of Usabilla for an amount of approximately $80 million. Does selling a phone on an online marketplace make you a "trader" under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the Consumer Rights Directive? Online marketplaces provide sales channels not only for professional traders but also for individuals selling second-hand goods. For buyers, online advertisements do not always make it clear whether the seller is a professional trader or an individual. Stibbe advises KKR Stibbe advises KKR on the acquisition of Exact Software from Apax Partners. Stibbe advises PostNL Stibbe advises PostNL on the acquisition of Sandd for an enterprise value of EUR 130 million. Financial regulatory law update 2019 Several changes to Dutch financial regulatory laws entered into force in January and February 2019. In this article we provide a short summary of these changes. Stibbe advises KAS BANK Stibbe advises KAS BANK on the recommended all-cash public offer by CACEIS for KAS BANK. Dutch chapter to Chambers Global Practice Guides Corporate Tax 2019 Stibbe contributes Dutch chapter to Chambers Global Practice Guides Corporate Tax 2019. This chapter was written by Michael Molenaars, Jeroen Smits, Reinout de Boer and Rogier van der Struijk. Besides providing you with an outline of Dutch corporate incom Belgian law of 25 November 2018 on various provisions relating to the National Register The Belgian law of 25 November 2018 containing various provisions relating to the National Register and the population registers has amended the law of 8 August 1983 regulating the National Register and the use of the national identity number. PSD2 implemented in the Netherlands Yesterday, the PSD2 implementation act was promulgated in the Dutch Government Gazette (Staatsblad). The PSD2 implementation act enters into effect on 19 February 2019. The Act and Explanatory Memorandum (both in Dutch) can be found here. Brexit and data protection: preparing for a 'no-deal' As it stands, the UK will exit the European Union at midnight on 29 March 2019. Therefore, businesses within the UK, or with trade relations with the UK, would be best advised to assume that a no-deal Brexit is inevitable. Commercial interest on overdue interest payments on a loan – uncertainty remains If a person buys a car from a car dealer and fails to pay the purchase price on the agreed date, that person has to pay not only the purchase price but also statutory interest (Clause 6:119 DCC), unless otherwise agreed. The ACM follows EU approach in its first pharmaceutical merger The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) recently reviewed its first merger between two pharmaceutical companies. Pagination Previous page Page 108 Current page 109 Page 110 Page 111 Next page
Damage due to a defective driveway and the Dutch twenty year limitation period On 22 March 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled (ECLI:NL:HR:2019:412) that the strict liability for buildings (opstalaansprakelijkheid) is not linked to a specific damaging act but to a damaging condition, as referred to in section 6:174 DCC. Therefore, t
Handbook on the Netherlands Commercial Court published To coincide with the opening of the Netherlands Commercial Court, Matthijs Kuijpers of Stibbe Amsterdam has released the handbook on this new court setting out all relevant information concerning this new international court and what it may offer parties
Les nouvelles règles wallonnes en matière d’expropriation entreront en vigueur le 1er juillet 2019 Les mesures d’exécution du décret wallon du 22 novembre 2018 relatif à la procédure d’expropriation adoptées par le Gouvernement ont été publiées le 25 février 2019 au Moniteur belge.
Lifting attachments on assets of international organisations in another state Are Dutch courts entitled to lift a prejudgment attachment levied against an international organisation on its assets in another state?
General Court sends Commission back to drawing board in Belgian tax rulings case The European Commission has suffered its first court defeat in a tax rulings case. The General Court recently overturned an order to recover over EUR 700 million worth of tax breaks from 55 beneficiaries.
Buckle up: the ACM is racing ahead with speedy solutions and more fines The Dutch competition watchdog ACM will bite faster and fiercer, according to its new chairman Martijn Snoep. The ACM plans to shorten the length of its investigations by deciding on their merits sooner.
Stibbe advises SurveyMonkey Stibbe advises SurveyMonkey on the acquisition of Usabilla for an amount of approximately $80 million.
Does selling a phone on an online marketplace make you a "trader" under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the Consumer Rights Directive? Online marketplaces provide sales channels not only for professional traders but also for individuals selling second-hand goods. For buyers, online advertisements do not always make it clear whether the seller is a professional trader or an individual.
Stibbe advises PostNL Stibbe advises PostNL on the acquisition of Sandd for an enterprise value of EUR 130 million.
Financial regulatory law update 2019 Several changes to Dutch financial regulatory laws entered into force in January and February 2019. In this article we provide a short summary of these changes.
Stibbe advises KAS BANK Stibbe advises KAS BANK on the recommended all-cash public offer by CACEIS for KAS BANK.
Dutch chapter to Chambers Global Practice Guides Corporate Tax 2019 Stibbe contributes Dutch chapter to Chambers Global Practice Guides Corporate Tax 2019. This chapter was written by Michael Molenaars, Jeroen Smits, Reinout de Boer and Rogier van der Struijk. Besides providing you with an outline of Dutch corporate incom
Belgian law of 25 November 2018 on various provisions relating to the National Register The Belgian law of 25 November 2018 containing various provisions relating to the National Register and the population registers has amended the law of 8 August 1983 regulating the National Register and the use of the national identity number.
PSD2 implemented in the Netherlands Yesterday, the PSD2 implementation act was promulgated in the Dutch Government Gazette (Staatsblad). The PSD2 implementation act enters into effect on 19 February 2019. The Act and Explanatory Memorandum (both in Dutch) can be found here.
Brexit and data protection: preparing for a 'no-deal' As it stands, the UK will exit the European Union at midnight on 29 March 2019. Therefore, businesses within the UK, or with trade relations with the UK, would be best advised to assume that a no-deal Brexit is inevitable.
Commercial interest on overdue interest payments on a loan – uncertainty remains If a person buys a car from a car dealer and fails to pay the purchase price on the agreed date, that person has to pay not only the purchase price but also statutory interest (Clause 6:119 DCC), unless otherwise agreed.
The ACM follows EU approach in its first pharmaceutical merger The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) recently reviewed its first merger between two pharmaceutical companies.