Arnoud Fioole

Things aren’t going well at EV-Box. While EV-Box recently had to cancel an IPO, Engie, as a major shareholder, also intervened in the management and supervisory board at subsidiary EV-Box.

This basic principle changes if the company runs into liquidity problems. In that instance, directors must be careful.

A payment schedule was also attached to the shareholders' agreement, according to which a shareholder loan provided by X was repaid. Deviation from the repayment schedule required approval from X.

The obligations that a franchisee and a franchisor have towards each other may differ in form.

Notwithstanding an (international) arbitration clause agreed between the parties, the preliminary relief judge may consider itself competent to take cognizance of the dispute. This is very remarkable given that the parties have excluded this possibility by arbitration agreement. On the basis of a recent decision of the Amsterdam District Court, procedural lawyer Martijn Kesler explains how this works.

Buying or selling an interest in a company is exciting for both the buyer and the seller. This is usually preceded by an intensive process with different phases.

In a collection summary judgment, William House XVIII B.V. demands an amount of EUR 500,000 from one of Van Omme & De Groot Participatiemaatschappij B.V. This recent ruling is remarkable, because a monetary claim in summary judgment is not often awarded. Lawyer procedural law Martijn Kesler explains.

It was recently revealed that the brokerage association NVM provisionally does not want to lose its majority interest in Funda. This was not very well received by a group of depositary receipt holders.