Cassatie

Sommige zaken liggen zo complex of principieel dat moet worden doorgeprocedeerd tot de Hoge Raad. Procedures bij de Hoge Raad worden gevoerd door gespecialiseerde advocaten, cassatieadvocaten. Houthoff heeft een van de grootste en meest toonaangevende cassatiepraktijken van Nederland. Onze cassatieadvocaten zijn volledig geïntegreerd in onze overige praktijk- en sectorteams. Ze kennen de context waarin een geschil speelt en zijn vastberaden om de beste oplossing te vinden. Het team combineert strategisch advies met diepgaande kennis van de sector waar de cliënt in opereert. Het succes van het cassatieteam is internationaal erkend en onze cassatieadvocaten worden geraadpleegd door zowel andere advocatenkantoren als ondernemingen en overheden.

Het cassatieteam van Houthoff heeft in de loop der jaren talloze baanbrekende uitspraken van de Hoge Raad verkregen.

First Tier firm

Chambers Global Dispute Resolution (2022 Edition)
“Sources praise the firm for being ‘very proactive and creative’ and ‘always very well prepared in supporting us.’”

Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution (2020 Edition)
“Clients highlight the team’s international capabilities, noting that they are ‘very good at dealing with cross-border work’ and have ‘very good knowledge of international financing and documentation, and are very good at adapting to different litigation systems.’”

Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution (2020 Edition)
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Chambers Global & Europe, Dispute Resolution (2020 Edition)
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Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“Leading arbitration team in the Netherlands, active both on investor-state and commercial arbitration matters. Successful in the world’s most high-value complex disputes matters.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“Ability to think outside the box in very complex and high-stakes matters.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“Houthoff has a large and outstanding arbitration team that is capable of handling high-end and large-scale arbitrations. They have extensive experience with ICC and other international arbitrations.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“The team consists of lawyers with different capabilities/areas of expertise which makes the team well equipped to handle a variety of cases.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“This practice is unique because Houthoff helped us eventually win the case and as client of Houthoff, I feel very delighted to be working with such a professional, responsible and talented team of lawyers. They are always patient and work with great passion and efficiency.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
“A well balanced team with outstanding arbitration skills. The really know when to push through and when to settle. Compared to other firms the Houthoff team combines outstanding legal knowledge with practical business skills.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2020 Edition)
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Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Commercial litigation (2020 Edition)
“The team is very quick to respond, friendly, easy to talk to. They team is efficient and very hard-working.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Commercial litigation (2020 Edition)
“The team is very experienced in a wide range of disputes and provides commercial and user-friendly advice.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Commercial litigation (2020 Edition)
“Sparring partners who have a lot of trial experience and the ability to assess risks.”

Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution (2019 Edition)
“One client says: ‘The team is excellent and the quality of work is outstanding,’ and adds that the lawyers are ‘very technical, objective and clear and deliver high-quality services.’”

Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution (2019 Edition)
“The ‘consistently excellent, very responsive’ team at Houthoff is, according to one client, ‘in a class of its own’ and its lawyers are ‘tactically astute, intellectually great, and very commercial in their approach.’”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Commercial litigation (2019 Edition)
“Houthoff’s ‘exceptional’ group has 'considerable experience in ICC arbitrations’ and stands out for the ‘accuracy and clarity of its legal advice’; it is also a key name for large-scale investment arbitration.”

Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2019 Edition)
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Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Commercial litigation (2019 Edition)
First Tier firm

Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution (2019 Edition)

Voorbeelden van onze expertise

beroep tegen de onteigening van de Hedwigepolder (lopende zaak)
succesvol beroep in de Meavita-zaak
succesvol beroep over aansprakelijkheid voor de dijkdoorbraak bij Wilnis
verschillende procedures rond de onteigening van SNS
verschillende procedures in de Yukos-zaak
succesvolle verdediging van het faillissementsakkoord inzake Lehman Brothers
succesvolle verdediging van het faillissement van Nederlanse financieringsdochters van de Braziliaanse telecomgiant Oi

Highlighted Matters

Samruk

The Dutch Supreme Court sets aside the appeal court's judgment on a Kazakh company's attachment of assets in a claim against shareholder Kazakhstan.

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CBRE

The Dutch Supreme Court upholds the appeals court's judgment which found that CBRE Global Investors does not have to offer Bijenkorf properties to Bijenkorf.

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Wells/Bariven

The Dutch Supreme Court reinstates arbitral award after it had been quashed for alleged corruption.

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Assisted a taxpayer in civil proceedings of principle against the Dutch state before the Supreme Court, in which the state unsuccessfully tried to recover the costs of a tax audit from the taxpayer.
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The Unbundling Act requires that the integrated energy companies unbundle their network companies, and forbids privatization thereof. Three large energy companies argued that the act infringes on the right to free movement of capital and therefore does not bind them. The Dutch Supreme Court found that the Unbundling Act is in line with the right to free movement of capital. The Supreme Court reasons that the objectives of the Unbundling Act are ‘important reasons in the public interest’ and that the entailing restrictions.

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On the basis of the appeal of Houthoff, the Supreme Court quashed on material and unprecidented formal grounds the decision of the Enterprise Chamber in the Meavita-case. The Enterprise Chamber's decision was rendered after the by far most costly investigation so far. It must fully reconsider the whole case.
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Advised Vi Holding, the largest shareholder of aluminum multinational Vimetco N.V. on several proceedings in the Netherlands and the UK relating to a transaction with regard to a significant minority stake in Vimetco. Disputes arose with respect to certain obligations under this transaction, and also a third party initiated proceedings in both the UK and the Netherlands following it.
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Advised Aurelius, through its investment vehicle Capricorn, in lodging several claims in the Netherlands, relating to, among others, (a) the voidance of several intercompany transactions of the Oi Group which have been to the detriment of the group's creditors and (b) to prevent the ailing Brazilian parent company from borrowing any more money from one its Dutch subsidiaries.