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Protix, a Netherlands-based company, has raised €45 million in equity and debt funding to expand its insect farming business. Protix farms insects predominantly for animal and aquaculture feed, with feed products in over 12 countries, ranging from pig and poultry to pet food specialties. Protix will use the funding from this latest round to expand

Canon The Netherlands N.V. acquires all shares in the capital of Nokavision Software B.V.; a Value Added Reseller of OpenText Streamserve and Mendix, specialised in Customer Communication Management (CCM). The acquisition will allow Canon The Netherlands to grow in the full digital CCM arena and become the biggest CCM system integrator. A team of BarentsKrans acted as legal counsel to Canon

Effective April 2017, Jan-Willem de Jong has joined the Corporate Litigation department of BarentsKrans, where he will focus on the cartel damages practice. Jan-Willem started his career at Houthoff Buruma in Amsterdam in 2007, where he specialised in handling complex cases involving class action litigation and mass claim settlements. In 2014, Jan-Willem worked in the United

It rains classifications at BarentsKrans. Besides the Chambers Europe 2017 rankings that were released this week, Legal 500 also made its appearance yesterday. This party assesses the strengths of law firms in over 100 jurisdictions worldwide. And we are once again extremely proud of the results! How are the Legal 500 rankings developed? Legal 500 highlights those

“The firm is easy to work with and has a number of experienced, innovative and skilful litigators, who deliver cost-effective and practical results.” Last month we published the stunning results that BarentsKrans achieved in the Chambers 2017 Global edition. Meanwhile, the Chambers Europe guide has also been published and we would, once again, like to share our Chambers

In its final relief judgement of 5 April 2017 in Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Europe) B.V. (“Sun“) v. Novartis et al. (“Novartis”), the District Court of The Hague ruled that Sun has directly infringed Novartis’ second medical use patent EP 1 296 689 (EP ‘689) which relates to the treatment of osteoporosis. Previously, in its interim

On 24 March 2017 Advanced Safety Technologies B.V. acquired all issued shares of Alt Technologies Holding B.V. from the sellers Standard Investment and management. The Alt Technologies group is engaged in the business of supplying covers, wraps and seals for airbag systems, as well as labels for the automotive and durable goods industries. BarentsKrans acted as legal

Chambers Global 2017, the guide that provides a worldwide overview of five international practice areas, was released yesterday. BarentsKrans received several honourable mentions. The Intellectual Property team has been rewarded with a splendid Band 2 ranking this year. The same top ranking was received by the corporate litigation, financial law and supreme court litigation teams

BarentsKrans is again included in the GCR 100 by Global Competition Review, the international magazine for competition professionals. The GCR ranks the top competition law firms and economic consultants worldwide. Global Competition Review states the following about BarentsKrans: “BarentsKrans is bringing several claims against participants in the major cartels, but practice head Joost Fanoy emphasizes that the firm

A Dutch court recently ruled that foreign (EU) employers who temporarily post workers in the Netherlands must participate in certain industry pension funds. This ruling has particular relevance for EU companies active in cross-border transport and construction projects. The court held that a Cypriote transport company, which had its drivers working temporarily in the Netherlands,