The tidal wave of loan maturities expected in 2024 will put pressure on lenders and borrowers, which will spill over to the transactional sphere, putting pressure on buyers and sellers to come to weighed and balanced solutions. Without a true understanding of the interests of the other party and a willingness to find a weighed…

World-famous DJ Martijn Garritsen (known to the wider public as Martin Garrix) has been at odds with Spinnin’ Records since 2015, when he announced he would be leaving the label. In 2017, Martin Garrix sought relief from the court, alleging that Spinnin’ Records misled him when he first signed a contract with the label. During…

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Op 21 april 2020 heeft de Eerste Kamer het wetsvoorstel voor de Tijdelijke Wet COVID-19 Justitie en Veiligheid (de Spoedwet) aangenomen. De verwachting is dat de Spoedwet binnenkort in werking zal treden, waarschijnlijk al deze week.

De Spoedwet past een groot aantal wetten aan waarmee voorgeschreven procedures en termijnen…

Greenberg Traurig, LLP Amsterdam Shareholders Herald Jongen and Thomas Timmermans and Associate Laurens Timmer have authored the Netherlands Law & Practice chapter in the 2019 Chambers Global Practice Guide on Outsourcing.

The Outsourcing Guide offers an analysis of the key market developments in outsourcing in the Netherlands, as well as an overview of the…

Welcome to Greenberg Traurig’s LIBOR Transition Newsletter, where we provide updates, analysis, and occasional commentary on the latest developments relating to the highly anticipated phasing-out of LIBOR at the end of 2021 – barely two years from now. Questions addressed in this issue: Why is LIBOR being phased out? What will be the immediate effect?…

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.,…

As reported in our November 2018 GT Amsterdam Law blog post, use of an office building without a minimum energy label C (an energy index of 1.3 or better) will be prohibited as of 1 January 2023.

In view of this prohibition in the Dutch Buildings Decree, the ROZ (Dutch Real Estate Council) has…

The European Commission published its report on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield on Dec. 19.

The report shows that the United States “continues to ensure an adequate level of protection” for personal data transferred under the Privacy Shield from the EU to participating companies in the U.S., noting that the steps taken by U.S. authorities to…