May 2012 - On Thursday 10 May 2012 Martijn van Maanen gave a guest lecture at Stanford Law School addressing European mass litigation developments, in particular in the area of cartel damages and securities litigation. The lecture formed part of the Seminar on Transnational Litigation led by prof. Deborah Hensler and prof. Ianika Tzankova. Drawing from his experience as plaintiff counsel in the Air Cargo, Sodium Chlorate and Paraffin Wax Cartel cases, and as defence counsel in the Fortis prospectus liability litigation, Martijn focused his presentation on strategic considerations in relation to jurisdiction and conflict of laws. Developments in this area have also featured in the January 2012 issue of
Focus Europe, a publication of The American Lawyer.
April 2012 – Pierre Bos will be speaking in a panel discussion on 'Specific issues in cross-border EU competition law actions brought by multiple claimants' at the Cross-border EU Competition Law Actions Conference at the London school of Economics on Friday 20th April 2012. The conference is being organised within the framework of a research project, which aims to consider whether the European Union should use the current EU private international law framework with regard to cross-border EU competition law claims brought by private parties, or rather whether the EU legislator should set up a Special Regulation dealing with EU competition law proceedings arising in the European context.
February 2012 – As of February 1, 2012 Joost Fanoy has joined BarentsKrans' Antitrust & Public Procurement Practice Group as a senior associate. Joost is specialized in European law in general with a particular focus on European and Dutch competition, public procurement and state aid law. He has acquired considerable experience in assisting companies with European and Dutch cartel and state aid proceedings, merger and joint venture filings with the Dutch Competition Authority (NMa) and the European Commission. Also, Joost has consulted and litigated extensively on behalf of both contracting parties and contracting authorities in public procurement matters. Joost is seen as up and coming, both nationally and internationally and is recommended as such in the leading international lawyers directory Chambers.
January 2012 – Martijn van Ansem has advised the dentists and dental specialists pension fund (SPT) on setting up a new governance structure. The articles of association of both the pension fund and the professional pension association for dentists and dental specialists (BPVT) were amended on 19 January 2012 after the general meeting of the BPVT in Utrecht, in which the amendments were approved.
BarentsKrans has assisted Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE:SSD) as Dutch counsel in connection with the purchase of all of the shares of S&P Clever Reinforcement Company AG and S&P Reinforcement International AG (Switzerland) and their subsidiaries (collectively “S&P Clever”) for approx. $61.4 million, subject to postclosing adjustments. S&P Clever manufactures and sells engineered materials for repair, strengthening, and restoration of concrete and masonry construction and has operations in Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Poland, The Netherlands and Austria.
The Hague, January 2012 – BarentsKrans has appointed Jaap Bremer as a partner in the IP & Technology practice group, effective as of 1-1-2012. Jaap has been practicing as a lawyer at the The Hague firm since 2008. Jaap Bremer (1976) specialises in intellectual property law with a particular focus on patents and trademarks. He regularly assists clients in (multi-jurisdictional) patent litigation, particularly in the areas of pharmaceutical products and biotechnology. Jaap further has extensive experience in trademark law, advertising law and copyright law, in which fields he assists clients from various sectors, including the life sciences and the food and beverage sectors.
Jaap's appointment to partner further underscores the development and growth of BarentsKrans’ IP & Technology practice group in recent years.
September 2011- Rogier Duk, the country’s undisputed No. 1 employment lawyer, will join BarentsKrans as from January 1st 2012 as an employment and supreme court litigation lawyer. Rogier Duk has been a lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek since 1978. He will take leave of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for reaching retirement age. We see the arrival of Rogier Duk as yet another confirmation of our firm’s capability to attract the very best specialists and a recognition that our firm belongs to the top firms of The Netherlands.
August 2011 - BarentsKrans advised Gimv on the acquisition of a majority interest in Studiekring, the Dutch market leader in student tutoring in primary and secondary education. The rest of the shares remain the property of the founders. (Michiel Martin, Robert-Jan Zwaan en Anne-Rieke van der Linden)
June 2011 - Marleen van den Horst was a speaker at the international seminar on Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation on 15 June in Cascais, Portugal. Patent litigators from the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands gave an overview of patent litigation in their respective jurisdictions and explained how clients can use the differences between the systems to their strategic advantage. The introduction was followed by a international pharmaceutical case study, which enabled the audience to apply the lessons learnt. This seminar preceded the Annual Conference of EGA (European Generic Medicines Association).
April 2011 - Marleen van den Horst acted as a panelist in a session on Supplementary Protection Certificates at the Fordham University Conference on IP and policy in New York on April 28-29 2011. The Fordham IP Conference is known around the world for provocative, cutting-edge discussion of the hottest IP topics.
