DLA Piper handles cross-border employment and pension law litigation, restructurings and M&A transactions. Across the employment and pension law segments, the firm is regularly entrusted by clients within the technology, retail, financial, and regulated sectors. Practice chair Remke Beenen-Scheepstra leads on transactional mandates including employee participation matters and corporate restructurings. Johan Zwemmer focuses on the retail, energy, transport, technology and security sectors, advising on flexible workforce matters and corporate labour and employment law.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Juliette van der Beek has provided great support to us with a number of projects, always proving flexible as projects progress, is collaborative and is very effective.’
- 'Collaborative, accessible, they know their clients.'
- 'Johan Zwemmer is very intelligent, a creative and strategic thinker, and a business partner.'
- 'Quick responses and understanding our needs (also in terms of risk taking). Good and long-term relationship.'
- 'Very good working relationship with Jasper de Bok, who has been advising us for many years. Knows internal stakeholders very well and understands our needs.'
Key clients
- Accell
- Atos
- Bpf Bouw
- G4S
- Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor het Beroepsvervoer over de Weg
- Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor Vlees, Vleeswaren, Gemaksvoeding en Pluimveevlees
- Triodos Bank
- PVH
- Uber Eats
- YoungOnes
Work highlights
Advised Uber Eats on the design and implementation of the staffing model they introduced within their organisation following the Supreme Court ruling.
Advised PVH on a complicated restructuring of its activities in the Netherlands, including a collective dismissal.
Represented G4S in appellate proceedings concerning the application of the Dutch Placement of Personnel by Intermediaries Act (Waadi) in a class action.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Remke Beenen-Scheepstra
Other key lawyers
Juliette van der Beek; Johan Zwemmer; Jasper de Bok