12 September 2017 - Marnix van den Bergh
Höcker advises Between on acquisition of FastFlex

Höcker Advocaten (Marnix van den Bergh and Paul Jongen) have acted as legal advisors to Between in their acquisition of FastFlex from Q24. Within the Between Group, FastFlex will remain active as an individual part. The Between Group now ...

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10 August 2017 - News
Collective interruption of earthquake damages Groningen

On 16 August 2012, a major earthquake hit Huizinge, Groningen, causing a great deal of extremely serious damage to buildings. The underlying cause was gas extraction.

Almost 5 years later, most Groningen residents have still not ...

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11 July 2017 - Marijn Kingma
Reselling Digital Content. Are you exhausted yet?

To start with the obvious: the technological developments of the last decade have changed the world we live in. Whether we are listening to music, finding directions, catching Pikachu’s or Charmanders or checking Donald Trump’s Twitter, we ...

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30 June 2017 - Marijn Kingma
A new Höcker, a new address

We have moved house as of 1 July.

Please come and visit us at our new legal practice in corporate and employment law, IP/IT law, dispute resolution and liability at the Apollo Office Building.

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19 May 2017 - News
A Future Proof Copyright System

Speech held at ALAI Congress “Copyright – to be or not to be”, Copenhagen 19 May 2017

The very fundamental right that limits the scope of copyright is also a major justification for copyright protection: freedom of ...

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1 December 2016 - News
The bigger they are, the harder they fall

The WWZ is not just relevant to ‘ordinary’ employees. The position of managing directors with employment contracts has likewise changed as a result of this new Act. To what extent, though? A recent case before the Rotterdam District Court ...

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17 October 2016 - News
Sanoma v. GS Media and the EU Value Gap Proposal

Jacqueline Seignette gave a presentation on the new EU Value Gap Proposal and the Sanoma/GS Media case at the Dutch Copyright Association seminar on October 14th. You can read her presentation here.

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12 June 2016 - Mick Hurks
Keep your hands off my employees!

More and more often, employers are including non-solicitation clauses in their employment contracts. A recent decision by the District Court of the Northern Netherlands shows once again how important it is for employers to formulate such clauses ...

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2 May 2016 - News
International recognition for Höcker’s litigation team and for Jacqueline Seignette

"Höcker is very nice to work with, easy to communicate with, and the lawyers catch up with the major issues quickly and can get straight to the point." That’s what the latest edition of Chambers Europe had to say about our services.

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12 April 2016 - Marnix van den Bergh
Cultural differences (and similarities) in international M&A practice

For me, one of the nicest aspects of being an M&A lawyer is the international dimension. ‘International’ can mean that I guide a foreign client through a purchase or participation in the Netherlands, provide advice to a Dutch client looking ...

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15 February 2016 - News
Goodbye to the VAR: Those were 14 good years

TThe Declaration of Independent Contractor Status (Verklaring Arbeidsrelatie, ‘VAR’) was introduced on 1 January 2002. The VAR has been in its current form since 1 January 2005. If the contractor submitted a ‘VAR WUO’ (VAR with respect to ...

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12 February 2016 - Joep Meddens
Transparency

Transparency is increasingly becoming a core value of our daily lives. This value is in keeping with an era in which all information is available (online or otherwise) to everyone and sharing seems to be the norm. The government is subject to the ...

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