This booklet is intended to provide lawyers and those involved in Dutch business operations with a good understanding of the essentials of Dutch employment law. The human factor is considered crucial in successful organisations and a careful approach to HR strategy can lead to significant rewards.
Punctuality is very important in the Dutch business culture. People have busy and full schedules, and appreciate timeliness. Read on to learn more about the Netherlands.
A review of legal privilege for in-house counsel in various jurisdictions around the world.
This article sets out the general rules of Dutch law that apply in collective redundancies.
A brief overview of anti-bribery and corruption laws in Europe, Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
A reference guide for Private Equity and Venture Capital professional, adviser and lawyers. It sets out the current status of jurisdictions, implementation of new regulation and key considerations to take into account when deciding to invest in different European jurisdictions.
An easy reference guide to employee non-compete agreements across borders. It sets out the key considerations to take into account when drafting, updating and enforcing non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants in different jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
The Dutch Supreme Court decision of 5 April 2013, LJN BY8101 (Lundiform/Mexx), gave an important ruling about the interpretation of commercial contracts that potentially reduces commercial certainty. The ruling reduces the emphasis on the specific wording of a contract, even if it contains an “entire agreement clause” and makes it clear that the courts will consider other factors if it can be shown that the contract does not express the parties’ intentions.
The ACC & Laurence Simons EMEA Legal Department Survey 2013 builds on previous research, confirming established trends and revealing new ones. As the economic downturn continues to bite across Europe and company executives, including general counsel and heads of legal, look to respond accordingly. This is having a clear impact on the way legal departments are managing their workloads, budgets and are being staffed. In particular, company executives, are on the whole looking to respond to increasing pressures of cost containment — to continue to do more with less.
This QuickCounsel examines the differences in attorney-client privilege between the United States and the European Union, individual European countries, Canada, Brazil, Russia, India and China.