General Terms

1. De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers is a partnership (which includes professional corporations) established in Capelle a/d IJssel, the Netherlands.
2. All instructions from clients are solely accepted and carried out by De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers. The provisions of articles 7:404 and 7:407 paragraph 2 of the Dutch Civil Code are hereby excluded.
3. Any and all liability of De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers is limited to the amount paid out under De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers’ professional liability insurance policy in the matter concerned. Information about the (cover under the) professional liability insurance entered into by De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers shall be supplied upon request.
4. De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers shall, as far as possible, consult the client before engaging third parties, and shall in any event exercise the necessary due care in its selection of third parties. De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers is not liable for any acts and/or omissions of third parties and is authorised to accept any possible limitations to its liability with regard to the third parties that it has involved without prior consultation with the client or on behalf of the client.
5. The client shall allow that De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers and the persons involved in carrying out an assignment by or on behalf of De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers share information relating to the client and an assignment awarded by the client with other persons connected with De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers, to the extent required or useful for the purposes of client relation management.
6. The legal relationship between De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers and the client, as well as between De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers and those that make use of De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers’ services, shall be subject to Dutch law. All disputes shall be exclusively decided by the competent court in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
7. Any rights of action and other rights against De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers in connection to the services rendered by De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers shall expire at any rate one year after the date on which the party became aware or could reasonably have become aware of the existence of those rights.
8. All stipulations in the present general conditions are stipulated for the benefit of not only the partners of De Haij & Van der Wende Lawyers, but also the managing directors of professional corporations and those who work or worked for the partnership.
9. These general conditions have been drawn up in Dutch and English. In the event of disputes concerning the interpretation of these general conditions, the Dutch text will take precedence.