Lemstra Van der Korst

Number of partners: 8

Number of lawyers: 21

Languages: Dutch, English, German, French 

Firm Overview

Lemstra Van der Korst is a leading corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration boutique law firm based in Amsterdam. It specialises in disputes regarding complex commercial contracting and liability, (post-)M&A, financial law, directors’ liability, shareholders, professional liability and insolvency, as well as advising on corporate governance matters.

Lemstra Van der Korst focuses on understanding its client’s business, allowing it to render no-nonsense, state of the art legal advice. Its lawyers have impressed in advising boards of international and domestic enterprises with a view to preventing and resolving disputes. The team is creative and highly flexible, and renowned for its strategic and commercial approach.

Since it was founded in 2010, Lemstra Van der Korst has been a key player in the Dutch market for class actions and settlements. It has vast experience in mass claims and follow-on damages litigation, WCAM-settlements, and WAMCA proceedings, and is involved in many of the ongoing high-profile class actions in the Netherlands, such as the Trucks-case, various privacy-related actions against Big-Tech companies, a medical product liability case against a big pharmaceutical and environmental liability cases against large petrochemical and energy companies.

The team has longstanding experience in the field of corporate and commercial arbitration, including the annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards, and acts under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and NAI rules, amongst others. It also has a strong reputation for advising clients on corporate governance issues and the role of public supervisory authorities. Lemstra Van der Korst is often requested by other law firms to act as co-counsel in complex litigation or arbitration cases or to provide second opinions, and is a trusted partner for referral work of leading foreign law firms.

Main Areas of Practice

■ Corporate Litigation

■ Financial Litigation

■ Insolvency Litigation

■ Commercial Litigation

■ Class Actions

■ (International) Arbitration

■ Boardroom Counseling

■ Corporate Governance

■ Advising Works Councils Large Companies

Representative Work

■ Representing shareholders (through an SPV foundation) in a USD 380 million class settlement with Shell regarding the misrepresentation of its oil and gas reserves.

■ Representing Reuben Brothers in a multimillion-dollar international investment dispute.

■ Representing board members of an international mining and metals company in proceedings initiated by hedge funds aimed at freezing dividend payments.

■ Data privacy related class action against Alphabet / Google.  

■ Representing a former board member of Fortis Bank in various litigation resulting from the expropriation of Fortis Bank.

■ Product liability case against pharmaceutical company Bayer. 

■ Representing an SPV foundation in a multibillion-dollar class action against international banks and a broker re the manipulation of LIBOR and EURIBOR linked interest rates.

■ Enforcing a USD 1+ billion ICC award on behalf of a Latin American SOE, including various parallel proceedings in multiple jurisdictions.

■ Lead counsel in securities class action regarding damages caused by corruption and fraud within Brazilian oil giant Petrobras.

■ Advising and representing the Central Works Council of TATA Steel Netherlands in various matters, including the initially intended mergers with Thyssen Krupp and SSAB, and the intended separation of Tata Steel Netherlands and Tata Steel UK.

■ Representing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, CNH Industrial and Iveco in multiple follow-on cartel damages cases.

■ Proceedings against Braskem and Norsk Hydro regarding environmental disasters in Brazil.

■ Representing (the clients of) five leading Dutch legal insurance companies regarding the class settlement (WCAM) of claims against DSB Bank relating to breaches of its duty of care.

■ Representing Digital Landscape Group, Inc. subsidiary in a commercial dispute with Dutch national telecom provider KPN.

■ Representing a supplier in a multimillion-dollar dispute against Volkswagen.

■ Several data privacy class actions against Meta / Facebook. 

■ Representing the managing and supervisory board in a liability case following the bankruptcy of Apple’s largest premium reseller in the Netherlands.

■ Representing SRK (legal aid insurance company) in a corporate dispute with AEGON and Nationale Nederlanden in inquiry proceedings before the Enterprise Chamber, resulting in a settlement.

Offices

Netherlands – Head office

Amsterdam

Prins Hendriklaan 16

1075 BC Amsterdam,

North Holland, Netherlands

Web:www.lvdk.com 

Tel:+31 (0)20 2050567

Fax:+31 (0)20 2050560