28 May 2013

Litigation & dispute resolution

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The Litigation & dispute resolution team, led by partner Jeroen Ouwehand handles a wide variety of contentious matters including commercial, corporate and financial litigation and arbitration, regulatory enforcement and investigations and insolvency related matters. The team is valued for its expertise, practical approach and client-oriented focus. We are sensitive to the need to where possible avoid disputes and to resolve disputes as cost effectively and efficiently as possible and seek to obtain the optimum commercial outcome for our clients.

Handling complex matters

Clifford Chance is one of the few law firms in the Netherlands that can operate on an international level benefiting from an integrated global network, offering advice to and representing both domestic and foreign clients that seek assistance in contentious matters. Our practice focuses on complex, cross-border dispute resolution.

Broad range of expertise

The Litigation & dispute resolution practice in Amsterdam is dedicated to delivering full service contentious work, spanning all industry sectors.

Our expertise includes:

  • Arbitration
  • Commercial litigation
  • Corporate litigation
  • Financial litigation
  • Health care litigation
  • IP/IT
  • Mediation
  • Regulatory enforcement and investigations
  • Restructuring/insolvency
  • White collar crime

Arbitration and mediation

The Amsterdam office's arbitration group is part of Clifford Chance's integrated global arbitration practice, which provides organisations with arbitration experts wherever in the world they operate. The expertise of our highly integrated teams spans all industry sectors, enabling us to provide excellent representation to clients in complex disputes before any type of arbitral tribunal. Our Global Mediation Group enables us to share information, developments and techniques in relation to mediation. We are able to advise in mediation proceedings in a wide range of jurisdictions, cultures and languages. We can therefore provide a complete dispute resolution service portfolio beyond and in addition to litigation and arbitration.