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Mr Taco van der Valk

Work Department
Transport & Trade
Position
Partner
Career
Taco van der Valk is a partner and lawyer at AKD. Although well-versed in general issues of transport and trade law, Taco mainly focuses on contentious and non-contentious shipping and transport matters, such as bills of lading, charter parties, cargo claims, ship’s agency.
Taco has specialist knowledge of complex transnational litigation, such as the limitation of shipowners’ liability, insolvency and arbitration. His work also covers the arrest of ships and aircraft and the international law of the sea.
In addition to his legal practice Taco was the secretary to the board of editors of the Dutch maritime and transport law journal, Schip en Schade, for almost twenty years. He also regularly lectures on maritime and transport law issues.
Education
Taco read law at Leiden University. In 1990 he started his professional career at Nauta Dutilh, and in October 2001 he joined AKD.
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- Construction
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Transport
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Energy
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
- Private equity
- Project finance and PFI
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Data privacy and data protection
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Tax