Huib Verhaar

Counsel, Amsterdam

Expertise

Arbitration
Litigation
Portrait of Huib
Huib Verhaar specializes in corporate and commercial litigation. He has handled a wide variety of disputes, such as liability suits related to breach of contract or tort, director's liability, disputes related to mergers and acquisitions and conflicts between shareholders.
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His in-depth experience covers dispute resolution of any type and in all kinds of venues. He has acted as counsel in:

  • Dutch courts, including before the Enterprise Chamber
  • The Aruban court
  • National and international arbitrations
  • Mediation & binding advice proceedings.

Huib Verhaar also has broad experience with complex Requests under Dutch procedural law, such as:

  • Revocation of a resolution regarding the dissolution of a legal entity
  • Enforcement of (foreign law) pledges over shares and other assets
  • Conversion of the legal form of legal entities
  • Ranking proceedings regarding the distribution of enforcement proceeds.
  • Work highlights

    Some noteworthy published cases of Huib Verhaar are the following:

    • Defending a large energy company against a claim based on a call option regarding shares in another energy company (case ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2025:2785)
    • Defending a University of Applied Sciences against claims of a group of students (case ECLI:NL:RBROT:2024:1764)
    • Acting for a supplier in summary proceedings against a large chain of supermarkets regarding a long-term contract (case ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2023:5880)
    • Acting for a Swiss bank in the enforcement of a foreign law pledge on fuel stored in the Netherlands (case ECLI:NL:RBROT:2023:9284)
    • Defending a Swiss logistics company against a claim under NY law of a competitor (case ECLI:NL:RBROT:2022:6603)
    • Acting for investors in bankruptcy proceedings against a real estate fund (case ECLI:NL:GHARL:2021:11872)
    • Defending a large energy company against a claim regarding the termination of a contract in relation to biomass (case ECLI:NL:GHARL:2020:2077)
    • Defending an investment company in summary proceedings, to have an attachment for a claim of >55m USD stay in place (case ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2019:7340)
    • Acting for a financial institution to collect a claim on the basis of mortgage fraud (case ECLI:NL:RBLIM:2018:8019)
    • Acting for a South African fruit exporter in various cases against Dutch based counterparties (e.g. case ECLI:NL:HR:2017:275), which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on directors’ liability.
  • Qualifications

    Admitted to the bar in 2004.

    Education: Law and Economics

    Huib graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2004, having previously obtained his master's degree in economics at the same university. He joined NautaDutilh as a lawyer in August 2004. Huib has successfully completed the Grotius postgraduate programme 'Company & Liability'

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