International, Corporate & Business Law Firm in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Law Firm Overview

Blenheim is a Netherlands law firm, based in Amsterdam, Holland, specialized in Dutch business and corporate law. Blenheim's Dutch corporate and business law attorneys provide a wide range of legal services in Netherlands corporate and business law, and are specialized in matters of international trade. The quality of Blenheim as Dutch corporate and business law firm rests mainly upon the quality of the attorneys, their accessibility and efficiency. Blenheim’s attorneys share outstanding Dutch and international academic backgrounds, as well as a sincere commitment to legal excellence.

Blenheim is the Dutch business and corporate law firm with an edge; the edge of legal quality and integrity, an eye for the needs of our clients, responsiveness, and the aim to provide real value for money. We believe our role is to address our clients' legal needs in concert with their business goals, to evaluate options and provide solutions.

The Blenheim law office is based in Amsterdam, the hub of legal and economic activity in The Netherlands.

Year this Office was Established: 2002

Languages: German, French, Italian, Dutch, and English

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: Debt Collection in The Netherlands

Areas of Law Description

Blenheim provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

- Corporate Law

The Dutch corporate lawyers of Blenheim are providing Dutch and international clients with clear, imaginative and practical advice on all matters of Netherlands corporate law, including:

• mergers and acquisitions
• joint ventures and partnering arrangements
• restructurings and reorganizations
• venture capital and other corporate financing transactions
• mergers and acquisitions
• management buy-outs
• take-overs
• regulatory issues, such as capital markets regulations
• corporate governance
• shareholder agreements
• and shareholder disputes

- Commercial and Business Law

Blenheim's attorneys advise and litigate in business and commercial law issues, among others in matters concerning:

• business litigation, both plaintiff and defendant
• shareholder and partner disputes
• injunctions and restraints
• commercial and construction disputes
• business formation and dissolution options
• business start-up issues
• mergers and acquisitions
• dissolution and shareholder disputes
• buy and sell agreements
• government regulation issues
• business transactions
• equipment leasing
• mergers and acquisitions
• shareholder agreements
• licensing and franchise

- Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Blenheim offers a range of litigation services to corporate and individual clients in all Dutch courts (i.e. all District Courts, Courts of Appeal, arbitration tribunes and governmental agencies). Our Dutch law firm's litigation practice spans a number of substantive areas of Dutch and international law, including matters related to:

• business contracts and commercial disputes
• construction
• corporate, banking and securities
• creditor's rights litigation including bankruptcy adversary proceedings
• employment litigation
• information technology
• intellectual property
• administrative
• real estate and zoning
• securities and commodities
• environmental liability
• trade secrets and antitrust

Our Dutch attorneys are also able to provide services in alternative dispute resolutions (ADR):

• adjudication
• arbitration
• mini-trial
• expert evaluation
• mediation
• conciliation
• structured negotiation
• and other forms

- Employment Law

The labor and employment law practice group of the Dutch law firm Blenheim is dedicated to providing outstanding labor and employment law advice, litigation and other services to clients throughout the world. More specifically, the legal services of the Dutch employment lawyers of Blenheim include the following areas:

• the design and implementation of employment applications, employment agreements and contracts, and employee handbooks
• lawful investigations and employee terminations
• worker's compensation claims
• design effective and lawful wage payment programs and draft employment agreements and policies to ensure compliance
• audit employer overtime exempt classifications, and advise concerning wage payment obligations
• counsel employers on deferred compensation plans and executive compensation arrangements
• draft and implement alternative payments, such as stock option and employee stock purchase plans
• labor law compliance and effective labor-management relations, including interpretation of collective agreements
• important personnel decisions, such as: employee evaluations; discipline; suspension or termination
• (collective) redundancies and reorganization programs
• litigation, for instance in lawsuits involving claims of: wrongful discharge; unlawful discrimination; failure to reasonably accommodate; wage and hour violations; employee privacy; trade secret protection; violation of covenants-not-to-compete

- Information Technology law in The Netherlands

The Dutch IT law practice group of Blenheim is headed by Jan Willem de Groot. The IT practice group has extensive experience and expertise in the field of advice on Dutch IT law, contract negotiations, and dispute resolution services for Netherlands and international clients involved in the information technology.

Blenheim acts for a wide range of IT suppliers and customers (vendors, service providers and users) and has experience on both sides of a wide range of IT-transactions. The IT lawyers of our Netherlands law firm have special expertise in Dutch law on: internet matters; legal protection of secrets (software, interfaces, data bases, compilations); source code escrow; domain names; copyrights, patents and design (utility) patents; web authoring; unfair competition and misrepresentation; joint ownership issues; auditing intellectual property ownership for financing, mergers, divestitures; commercialization of software; software development & maintenance arrangements; hardware & infrastructure acquisition and services; and dispute resolution (negotiations, mediation, arbitration & litigation).

- Intellectual Property Law in The Netherlands

The Netherlands law firm Blenheim has expertise in Dutch intellectual property law, more specifically Dutch law concerning trademarks, internet domain names, copyrights, design patents, trade secrets, confidential information, data and information ownership, use and management, rights of publicity, unfair competition, advertising and antitrust issues.

* Trademark Law

• trademark portfolio strategy and management
• selection and searching of trademarks
• availability advice
• registration of Benelux trademarks in The Netherlands (Benelux) and of international trademarks, for instance in accordance with the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol opposition proceedings
• protection of trademarks and brands from unauthorized use
• acquisition, licensing and other transactions relating to trademarks
• trademark usage, policies, practices and other counseling

* Copyrights

• Dutch and international protection of copyrights against unauthorized use
• acquisition, licensing and other transactions relating to copyrights
• copyright counseling

* Intellectual Property Audits and Reviews

• intellectual property audits
• creating and protecting intellectual property assets
• strategies and tactics to reduce the risk of infringements

* Confidentiality Agreements

• trade secrets and confidentiality
• trade secret protection and counseling

- Real Estate and Zoning Law

The Netherlands real estate lawyers of Blenheim deal with a variety of legal issues, including:

• legal audit of private and public real estate developments
• presentation and advice relating to public procurement matters
• subsidies and permit applications
• structuring asset deals
• public-private partnerships
• investigation into industrial operations on all aspects of environment and planning in order to improve legal compliance
• retail and office lease agreements

Blenheim's expertise in these areas, furthermore, covers all aspects of dispute resolution, including:

• administrative judicial review procedures, challenging administrative decisions, among others refusals of environmental and building permits, before administrative courts (the "Raad van State", and also the provincial and municipal courts) and
• civil and commercial litigation with respect to property law, building contracts and lease agreements

- Securities and Banking Law

The Dutch securities and banking lawyers of the Netherlands law firm Blenheim are counsel to a number of Dutch and foreign banks, and other financial institutions and intermediaries.
The activities of our Netherlands banking law attorneys include advising (also providing legal opinions) and litigating in matters of:
• mergers and acquisitions
• regulatory compliance (Netherlands and EU)
• liability claims
• real estate transactions
• and a range of other operational matters, such as:
o the negotiation and refinement of loan agreements, acquisition finance, project finance and syndicated lending
o the granting of credits in their diverse forms
o letters of credit and negotiable instruments
o the issue of letters of guarantee, patronage or comfort
o the rescheduling of debts
o the recovery of credits
o and the provision or enforcement of guarantees, as well as attachment formalities

Affiliations

Lawyers

	Mr. Jan Willem de Groot Attorney Accident, Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration		Mr. Frans de Voldere Attorney Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business Formation
	Mr. Jasper Hagers Attorney Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Asset Protection, Banking and Finance, Banking Law		Ms. Eva Jongepier Attorney Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Discrimination, Employee Benefits
	Mr. Jeroen Latour Attorney Accident, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Arbitration		Rachelle Mourits Attorney Discrimination, Employee Benefits, Employees Rights, Employment, Human Resources Law
	Mr. Arjen Paardekooper Attorney Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Asset Protection, Banking and Finance, Banking Law		Mr. Remko Roosjen Attorney Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Asset Protection, Bankruptcy
	Mr. Maarten Stoop Attorney Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Business Formation		Mr. Willem-Jan Tielemans Attorney Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Art and Culture
	Mrs. Marie-Louise van Kleef Attorney Business Formation, Business Law, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Litigation, International Law		Mr. Mark van Weeren Attorney Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Business Formation

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