The Dutch Senate’s act on gender diversity in Dutch company boards (the Act) took effect 1 January 2022. One of the Act’s provisions implements an appointment quota for supervisory boards, or non-executive directors in a one-tier model, of Dutch-listed companies to ensure that men and women each hold at least one-third of the seats on
The locked box mechanism and the completion accounts mechanism are two separate methods used to determine purchase price in M&A transactions. Parties may require a combination of the two to tailor a transaction to their needs. This may be the case where a big gap in time exists between the date of the available audited
The municipalities of Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer (home to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport) have announced a temporary halt of the realization of new data centers in their region. According to these municipalities, data centers take up too much space and consume too much energy.
Amsterdam and Schiphol are logical locations for data centers for various reasons (e.g.,
Legal scholars have been debating the method by which contractual provisions should be interpreted in the Netherlands since 1981, when the Dutch Supreme Court rendered its landmark Haviltex decision on the interpretation of contracts. Even though numerous relevant Dutch court decisions on contract interpretation have followed, the debate remains quite alive.
Irrespective of the applicable
In certain lease agreements we see a right of first refusal to purchase the leased property (voorkeursrecht tot koop van het gehuurde object), to the benefit of the tenant. Disputes may arise between the tenant and the landlord if it is unclear whether a transaction triggers the provision.
Such a dispute occurred between
Een natuurlijk persoon heeft de goedkeuring nodig van zijn of haar echtgenoot, onder meer indien deze persoon zich borg stelt voor de nakoming van verplichtingen van een derde partij. Dit wordt in de praktijk soms over het hoofd gezien. In het arrest van 13 juli 2018, ECLI:NL:HR:2018:1220, heeft de Hoge Raad geprobeerd meer duidelijkheid te