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Mr Bas Baks
Work Department
Insurance & Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Bas Baks is a partner in our Insurance & Litigation practice group and is the co-head of the global CMS Insurance Sector Group. He specialises in insurance and liability matters, with an emphasis on claims in relation to construction related matters and D&O.
Bas has experience in various areas of professional liability, product liability (recall, notifying food authorities, recovery) and in advising and litigating on coverage issues, in which capacity he has represented various international insurance companies and multinationals.
Languages
German, English, Dutch
Memberships
- Insurance law Association
- Lecturer Liability and Insurance Law for the Stichting Opleiding Advocaten Arrondissement Utrecht
- Technical Insurance Professionals Club (Beurs Club Technische Verzekeringen)
- Causarie
Education
- Commerce and Liability, Grotius Academy for Post-Graduate Law Studies
- Dutch Law, Utrecht University
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Insurance
(Leading individuals)CMS‘ insurance practice handles a spectrum of multi-jurisdictional matters, working closely with the firm’s London office to tackle both advisory coverage and regulatory matters, as well as disputes concerning D&O, product and professional indemnity, with a growing focus on the burgeoning area of cyber liability. Leading the team are Bas Baks, who focuses on construction-based claims, D&O matters and financial lines coverage, and Leonard Böhmer, who represents Dutch and international clients in a broad variety of insurance-related litigation. Oskar van de Weijer is also sought after for his experience in D&O, W&I and professional indemnity claims.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Fintech
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Energy
- Environment and planning
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Tax
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights