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The highest administrative appeal court in the Netherlands recently annulled the decision by the Dutch regulator ACM to prohibit the transaction between two rival industrial bakeries due to a high combined market share in the Dutch rusk market.

A district court in the Netherlands recently ruled that Alstom should pay EUR 14.1 million – the full amount of cartel damages claimed – to TenneT, the Dutch electricity grid operator.

The Dutch leading scientific journal Maandblad voor Ondernemingsrecht published an article on ESG litigation written by a member of the Loyens & Loeff litigation team.

Dulijon and Sander argue in this article that a creditor's statutory duty to complain about defective performance should not apply to claims by a company/trustee against a director based on section 2:9 Civil Code.

Ruud Hermans discusses the advantages of the foundation of a Netherlands Commercial Court (‘NCC'), a special court which can settle major international and domestic commercial disputes...

The Hague Court of Appeal has delivered its ruling on an appeal concerning the quantum of confiscation in a 2024 sanctions violation case involving the export of goods to Russian companies. Despite rejecting all defense arguments regarding cost deductions and financial means, the Court unexpectedly reduced the confiscation amount from €298,310 to €250,195 without providing any reasoning or legal basis for the reduction.

On 26 May 2021, the The Hague District Court ordered Royal Dutch Shell PLC, both directly and via its group companies, to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels.

Chanel and Coty have successfully acted against several Dutch companies trading under the name Bargello Perfumes. Bargello offered smell-a-like perfumes claiming the same or even a better quality...

In August 2023 the Amsterdam District Court handed down an eighth judgment in which the Subdistrict Court ruled that the much-applied (ROZ) rent indexation clause for liberalised rental housing...

In the autumn of 2016 the pride of the Netherlands, Max Verstappen, appeared in a television ad for Jumbo.

The Dutch Supreme Court recently answered preliminary questions (questions of interpretation of the law) about online shopping. The Supreme Court's answers in the two cases...

According to settled case law, there is a rebuttable presumption that a parent company exercises decisive influence over its wholly-owned subsidiary and can be held responsible for the subsidiary's cartel conduct.

The European Commission seems to walk a fine line during dawn raids between embarking on a fishing expedition and accidentally stumbling across evidence.

An arbitration clause did not prevent the Rotterdam District Court from considering itself competent to review a damages claim initiated by a litigation vehicle against a number of lift manufacturers...

The Amsterdam District Court recently ruled that the European Commission is best equipped to provide a redacted version of its air cargo cartel decision.

In 2007, the European Commission published a first non-confidential version of its decision to fine seven companies more than EUR 388 million for participating in a bleaching chemicals cartel.

The General Court recently annulled the European Commission's decision to block UPS's intended acquisition of TNT Express

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