Mass Claims

... and companies and financial institutions are increasingly finding themselves the main target.

Our Mass Claims team is involved as lead counsel in most high-profile mass claims and class actions in the Netherlands and across Europe.

We provide legal assistance in complex mass claims and class actions, both in national and international contexts. Our integrated practice model enables us to couple a deep understanding of procedural law with expertise in areas such as antitrust and cartel damages; consumer protection and product liability; data privacy and cybersecurity; financial law; and ESG issues such as climate and sustainability, employment and human rights. Our teams consist of lawyers from various jurisdictions around the world, supported by legal project managers to assist in case management. We also offer our clients customised legal tech tools to easily manage mass claims.

Following the introduction of the Resolution of Mass Damage in Collective Action Act (known as the WAMCA) on 1 January 2020, many collective actions now fall under new statutory rules. The WAMCA has transformed the Dutch collective action regime by allowing claims for monetary damages, introducing stricter admissibility requirements, and amending the procedure. To familiarise clients and others with these new rules, we have published Unlocking the WAMCA: a practical guide to the new collective action regime in the Netherlands. The third edition includes a discussion of the EU's Representative Actions Directive and can be downloaded here.