The Netherlands Ranked Number 5 In The Global Competitiveness Index 2012-2013

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has carried out dawn raids at several suppliers to institutions in the public sector as part of an investigation into a suspected customer allocation cartel.

The European Commission has raised competition concerns about capacity allocation rules on the Dutch main railway network following the 2025 market liberalization.

The Dutch parliament is considering legislation that would fundamentally alter merger control by granting the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) power to review transactions below traditional turnover thresholds.

On 28 May 2026, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) fined Bouwhuis, Timmerhuis and Van Gelder, three companies active in the civil engineering and infrastructure sector...

On April 16, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its preliminary ruling in the joined cases Electricity & Water Authority of the Government of Bahrain and Others (Power Cables, C-672/23)...

The European Commission has recently published its draft new Merger Guidelines for consultation. While the Commission will still assess whether a merger may lead to a significant impediment...

On 29 January 2026, the CJEU delivered an important ruling in Case C-286/24 (Meliá Hotels International, S.A. v Associação Ius Omnibus) concerning the disclosure of evidence in competition damages actions.

Algorithms and AI are rapidly reshaping how companies set prices and compete, but they are also attracting intensified antitrust scrutiny.

The coalition parties that will form the next Dutch government published the coalition agreement, including their strategic priorities, on 30 January 2026.

On 9 december 2025, the European Commission announced that it has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules...

A critical deadline looms for European issuers with securities traded outside the EU, as a key grandfathering clause under the CSD Regulation expires on 17 January 2027. Without timely regulatory action, third-country central securities depositories like DTC may be forced to suspend services to affected EU issuers, potentially disrupting trading in their equity and debt instruments on international markets.

On 8 November, the Dutch Supreme Court formulated the questions it will refer to the European Court of Justice in a case between Anne Frank Fonds and our clients, Anne Frank Stichting, KNAW and the Belgian association VOOHT.

On 24 October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important ruling in Kwantum v Vitra.

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) entered into force on 25 July 2024, and EU member states have until 26 July 2026 to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with the CSDDD.

On November 22, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (NPPS) published a long-awaited instruction - see our unofficial translation here - outlining the framework and conditions for self-reporting and cooperation in criminal investigations into possible offences committed by legal entities.

On 22 November 2024, in a case between Panasonic and OPPO, the Mannheim Local Division (LD) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) handed down the first ever full-fledged substantive decision on the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs) on Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms...

Helen Gornall and Marloes Wantenaar have written an article about the judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) - issued on 19 September 2024 - in Booking.com BV and Booking.com (Deutschland) GmbH v 25hours Hotel Company Berlin GmbH and Others. Helen and Marloes represented Booking.com in these proceedings.

On 20 January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order relating to Pillar II.

As we step into 2025, IP law in the European Union is set to undergo interesting changes.

Developed in the US since 2016 and now a relatively common phenomenon in the US, liability management exercises (LMEs) are making their way into European debt structures.