The consultation report on the draft bill amending the Electricity Act and Gas Act (STROOM) was recently published.

A draft bill on the recovery and resolution of insurers was published for public consultation on 13 July 2016. Interested parties may respond to the draft bill until 28 August 2016.

A discussion on the implementation of Directive 2011/89/EU, which provides for supplementary supervision of financial entities in a financial conglomerate.

The Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (the AFM) have published a paper describing the next steps in facilitating an adequate supervisory approach...

Directors of financial institutions pay insufficient attention to the effect of their actions on others and on group dynamics, according to DNB's report Leading By Example.

Luz Verde is the first-ever Clean Development Mechanism project under a Programme of Activities to receive carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol.

One hardly needs the gift of prophecy to predict that there will be more amendments of financial markets laws in 2017.

ESMA has published its 20th version of Q&As on prospectuses.

After the end of the creditors’ meeting in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Treasury Co. B.V., the composition plan was adopted by a large majority and approved by the Amsterdam District Court.

From January 2016, dividends declared on an insurer's ordinary shares must be cancellable on a breach of the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) at any time up until payment...

On 4 April 2014, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Medinol v Abbott concerning the scope of protection of patents.

Indonesia’s recent announcement that it will terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the Netherlands calls for renewed evaluation.

Bommel van der Bend and Samuel Vermeulen have contributed the Netherlands chapter to Global Arbitration Review’s ‘The European, Middle Eastern and African Arbitration Review 2015′.

Daan Beenders, Andries Polkerman and Wouter Hofstee have written an article, published in "Maandblad voor Vermogensrecht", focusing on an issue that can be relevant in settlement discussions; ...

Since the US Supreme Court’s decision in Morrison v. National Australian Bank, the international relevance of Dutch law on class action settlements has increased.

The Netherlands Supreme Court recently held that the pre-judgment seizure of documents, files or other materials as evidence is permissible in non-IP matters.

A document retention schedule is essential for minimising business risks and the chance of costly litigation caused either by destroying information before, or retaining it beyond, the end of its legally required retention period.

Edward van Geuns, partner at De Brauw, opened by quoting Rogers and Stern's prediction in "Challenges to JCC Pricing in Asian LNG Markets", published in February 2014.

Against all odds, an appeals court in the US has ruled that whistleblowers who report misconduct internally are protected from retaliation under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued new guidelines stating that the anti-retaliation provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act should also apply to staff who report misconduct internally.