On Oct. 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat) issued a statement of intent. The governments aim to jointly stimulate future hydrogen research & development and demonstration activities.
Hydrogen has
A comparison of the new Dutch Scheme and the new UK Restructuring Plan.
The Dutch Scheme and the UK Restructuring Plan are the latest of a series of significant developments in European restructuring law which may provide corporate debtors and their stakeholders with an improved restructuring tool kit to address financial distress and, ultimately, to
A Dutch draft bill1 introduces a new framework pursuant to which the relevant minister can, if deemed necessary for national security, review investments in or acquisitions of certain companies. The Dutch government intends to introduce the bill in early 2021, with retroactive effect as of June 2, 2020.
The draft Bill introduces a specific
On 29 April 2020 the Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) handed down a decision regarding a contractual break-up fee in an M&A transaction affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Furthermore, on 14 May 2020 the preliminary relief judge of the District Court of Amsterdam also handed down a decision related to an M&A transaction