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Fraud and white-collar crime
Allen & Overy LLP handles the full range of fraud and white-collar crime, notably including a focus on asset-tracing and cases in the Dutch housing corporation sector. Clients praise the practice’s ‘refined balance of knowledge, procedures and open, human behaviour’. Hendrik Jan Biemond has ‘superior intelligence without being haughty, is well informed, and able to calm emotional eruptions’.
NautaDutilh represents major financial institutions on fraud and white-collar crime cases, as well as acting for professional football teams, and various national and international governmental and civil organisations. Joost Italianer, Bert Fibbe and Arjen Tillema are highly recommended. Rob van der Hoeven was promoted to partner.
Simmons & Simmons LLP puts in a ‘first-class performance’, and is regularly involved in the largest Dutch corporate criminal cases. It also often acts for high-net-worth individuals. Ed van Liere is a ‘perfect operator in the courtroom’. Former managing associate Petra van Kampen left the firm.
Niche criminal defence firm Sjöcrona van Stigt acts for domestic and international corporations, as well as private individuals. Founders Arthur van Stigt and Jan Sjöcrona are highly respected, with van Stigt recommended for fiscal, economic, and environmental crime case, and Sjöcrona for financial and economic fraud cases.
Daan Doorenbos’ three-lawyer team at Stibbe handles all manner of corporate criminal law, including market abuse, tax, customs fraud, environmental, and working conditions cases. Recent highlights include successfully representing a former board member of a listed company faced with insider trading allegations.
Boutique criminal practice Wladimiroff Advocaten specialises in all areas of criminal and regulatory law, and routinely works with leading accountancy practices. The team represented Trafigura in proceedings regarding European environmental regulations, national criminal law and international cooperation in criminal matters. Michail Wladimiroff and Aldo Verbruggen are highly recommended.
Carel Raymakers’ team at Boekel De Nerée is representing a major real estate developer in a major fraud investigation; Van Gogh Museum in civil proceedings regarding alleged fraudulent expert opinions; and certain managing directors against charges of environmental regulatory violations.
Clients ‘respect the knowledge’ of CMS Derks Star Busmann, which recently represented a former CEO in the Netherlands’ largest healthcare industry fraud case ever tried. Dian Brouwer is recommended for his ‘skills in analysing problems and debating’.
Marnix Somsen’s multidisciplinary team at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek focuses exclusively on representing corporates and financial institutions. The group is representing Philips and Philips Pension Fund in the largest financial fraud matter in Dutch legal history.
De Roos & Pen acts for a number of financial institutions, and is representing a defendant in a real estate corruption case, and acting for a bank facing allegations of VAT fraud.
Hertoghs Tax Lawyers represents clients facing prosecution under penal and criminal tax law. Roel Kerkhoffs is recommended.
Loyens & Loeff advised re-sellers of luxury goods on criminal investigations regarding VAT and anti-money laundering regulations, and acted for a real estate firm regarding fraud investigations. Senior associate Annemarije Schoonbeek knows ‘how to deal with supervisory authorities, especially tax authorities’.
Ploum Lodder Princen Advocaten en Notarissen is noted for its advice to the financial industry. Marike Bakker is a ‘hard worker with sound knowledge of the law’.