Dr Elisabeth Thole > Van Doorne > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Van Doorne Offices
JACHTHAVENWEG 121
1081 KM AMSTERDAM
PO BOX 75265, 1070 AG AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Dr Elisabeth Thole
Work Department
Privacy & Data; Government & Regulation: Healthcare & Life Science; Consumer Goods, Retail, Food & Beverages; Technology, Media & Telecom; Financial Institutions: Pension services, FinTech; Cyper Security; AVG/GDPR
Position
Partner and Head of Privacy Team. Extensively experienced in assisting clients with complex, high risk, cross-border data related matters. The Team is also specialized in e-commerce work.
Career
Elisabeth is partner at Van Doorne as of 1 January 2016. Her 1991 PhD thesis “Software, een ‘novum’ in het vermogensrecht” addressed software as a novelty in property law, reviewing considerations on the position occupied by software copyrights in property law. Elisabeth publishes and is a regular speaker on IT and privacy-related topics. She has authored a variety of books on subjects including privacy (2010), IT contracts (2010), open source (2006), e-commerce (2001) and the Y2K problem (1998). Elisabeth is a member of the editorial team of the professional journals “Privacy & Informatie” (privacy and information) and “Tijdschrift voor Internetrecht” (internet law journal). She was nominated Legal Woman of the Year 2019.
Languages
English, Dutch, French, German.
Memberships
She is also a board member of the Netherlands Association of Dutch Data Protection Lawyers (VPR-A), a former board member of the Netherlands Association of IT lawyers Vereniging Informaticarecht Advocaten (VIRA), and member of the Netherlands Privacy Law Association (Vereniging voor Privacyrecht), the Netherlands Association for Information Technology and Law (NVvIR), the ITechlaw Association and the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), where she is Vice-President of the Data Protection Commission.
Education
PhD University Utrecht, the Netherlands (1991); Dutch Law, University Utrecht, the Netherlands (1986), with distinction.
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Data privacy and data protection
(Hall of Fame)Van Doorne focuses on contentious data protection matters including high risk and multijurisdictional issues. The team has handled numerous high profile data breaches for its clients as well as enforcement actions, class actions, and mass claims, as well as a full spectrum of non-contentious regulatory work. Practice head Elisabeth Thole handles the full gamut of data privacy issues; she is supported by Özer Zivali who specialises in contentious data protection matters and is well-versed in handling cross-border data breaches and enforcement mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection Netherlands
- Hall of Fame Netherlands > Data privacy and data protection
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Mediation
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Insurance
Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Energy
- Environment and planning
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Investment funds
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Project finance and PFI
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- Dispute resolution: class actions