Chambers Europe 2011
"Kennedy Van der Laan's TMT practice remains robust,
despite the departure of Coen Drion for the Supreme Court. Recent
IT work has included developing an automated drafting tool for
purchasing agreements for Allianz, a worldwide data protection
project for ING, and the introduction of an ERP system for
NedTrain. It also continues to act for long-standing client
Microsoft. On the telecoms side, the lawyers represented UPC in its
appeal against decisions by OPTA. In media, the team advised
newspapers De Volksrant and Het Parool on contentious matters, and
represented Greenpeace and other clients in litigation against
Trafigura. Other media clients include MTV Networks BV, Endemol and
Radio 538."
Sources say: "Its lawyers are really clever and know what
they are talking about." "The firm has an excellent name
for IT and a well-deserved reputation at the top."
Key individuals:
Patrick Wit heads the IT department and is recognised as an
outsourcing specialist who also has expertise in
telecommunications. Hester De Vries is "one of the biggest
names in privacy and data protection," say sources. She took
the lead on work for Trans Link Systems on a data protection
project relating to e-ticketing for public transport. Joost
Linnemann is the firm's managing partner and among the best IT
lawyers in the Netherlands, peers say. Jens van den Brink is making
a name for himself as an expert in freedom-of-speech issues.
Legal 500 EMEA 2012
"Kennedy Van der Laan handles data protection, e-commerce,
contracts, licensing, regulatory and outsourcing matters for IT
suppliers, and other corporate and government entities. (Former)
managing partner Joost Linnemann and Patrick Wit are the key
contacts."
Information Technology
Kennedy Van der Laan is known in The Netherlands and
internationally as the leading information technology law practice
in The Netherlands. Chambers Global calls us: "one of the most
powerful niche players in the Dutch IT arena."
The IT group is particularly known as the "go to"
group for cutting edge information technology projects, including a
nation-wide public transportation chip card project, an iris-scan
system for screening of airline passengers, a global banking
project using digital signature technology to identify parties to
B2B transactions, and one of the world's most advanced IT-
driven deep-sea container terminals.
Our clients include major international IT providers as well as
major corporate and government users of technology.
Our information technology practice is closely intertwined with our
other technology and specialist practices. These include telecom,
media, energy, biotechnology, and regulatory, particularly personal
data privacy regulation. Since technology outsourcing is a major
area of outsourcing of business process, our IT group led the way
in our rapidly- growing outsourcing practice.
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