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14 de octubre de 2025
Wagevoe
Since 1 January 2025, a new act was introduced for shareholder disputes: the ‘Act amending the dispute resolution rules and clarifying the admissibility requirements for inquiry proceedings’ (in short: Wagevoe). Before 2025, anyone who wanted to buy out a co-shareholder or leave a company could usually expect a long process involving various procedures. As my colleague Rick Dijksterhuis explained at the time in his earlier contribution on this bill, the legislator had one clear goal: to make the resolution of shareholder disputes faster, simpler and more practical. In practice, we see that this has an impact on the way shareholders litigate.
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13 de agosto de 2025
Update on the Vifo Act
The Netherlands' economic security policy is constantly evolving. In this context, the Investments, Mergers and Acquisitions (Security Screening) Act (Vifo Act) has been in force since 1 June 2023. The Act provides for a security assessment on the basis of which certain investments, mergers and acquisitions must be approved in advance by the Minister of Economic Affairs. For more information about the content and operation of the Vifo Act, please refer to my previous posts in this respect. In this news item, I provide an update on the Vifo Act.
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15 de julio de 2025
ACCESS OF UBO REGISTER FOR THE NOTARIAL PROFESSION IS AROUND THE CORNER
Last June, an agreement was reached and signed between the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (“CoC”) and the Dutch Royal Notarial Professional Organization (“RNPO”), to again allow civil law notaries in the Netherlands direct access to the UBO register.
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13 de junio de 2025
General terms and conditions: no absolute shield against liability
General terms and conditions are a key instrument for many entrepreneurs aiming to minimize legal risks. These documents typically contain clauses on liability, complaint periods, payment terms and governing law.
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27 de mayo de 2025
The moratorium under the WHOA
The Act on the court approval of private restructuring plans (Wet Homologatie Onderhands Akkoord, abbreviated as WHOA) makes it easier for a company in financial distress to sit down with its creditors and shareholders and make arrangements to restructure its debts. The annual report over 2023 of the group of specialised judges and staff tasked with implementing the WHOA (the WHOA Pool) shows, among other things, that in 2023, the moratorium (afkoelingsperiode) was the most frequently requested measure of all the restructuring tools offered by the WHOA.
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22 de mayo de 2025
Legislative proposal ACM Call-In Power Act: possible expansion of the scope of merger control supervision by the Dutch Competition Authority
On 18 March 2025, Members of the Dutch Parliament Julian Boshoff (GroenLinks-PvdA) and Daniëlle Jansen (Nieuw Sociaal Contract) introduced a legislative proposal seeking to expand the enforcement powers of the Dutch Competition Authority (known as the Autoriteit Consument & Markt or ACM). Specifically, the proposal aims to empower the ACM to call in concentrations that fall below the applicable turnover thresholds, where such concentrations could nonetheless significantly impede effective competition in the Dutch market or a part thereof.
