Daniella Strik

Daniella heads the firm’s litigation, arbitration & investigations practice in the Netherlands and leads the firm’s global collective redress group.

She is ranked Band 1 for Dispute Resolution in the Netherlands in Chambers & Partners Global and “Hall of Fame” in the Legal 500 Commercial litigation The Netherlands.

Daniella has a wealth of experience acting as defence counsel in complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation, with a special focus on collective actions and ESG. She has particular expertise in securities litigation and litigation arising from cartels. Daniella is an authority in the Netherlands on directors’ duties and liabilities.

Daniella is professor international litigation at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

In addition to her legal qualification, Daniella has a degree in business economics, enabling her to advise authoritatively on complex calculations of damages in disputed cases.

Work Highlights 

Daniella has led on many major cases. These include representing:

• ING Groep: acting as defence counsel in mass claim litigation for the alleged untimely disclosure of regulatory investigations re breaches of AML-regulations, criminal investigation conducted and the (anticipated) sanction to be imposed in relation thereto
• Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.: acting as defence counsel in respect to shareholder litigation following the announcement of multi billion euro accounting irregularities, including 2 collective actions and 3 actions initiated by groups of shareholders in the Netherlands with cross-border elements (Germany, South Africa)

• Airbus SE: acting as defence counsel for current and former non-executive directors of Airbus SE in a Dutch collective action (WAMCA) re shareholders’ claims about alleged failures to disclose bribery and corruption allegations and regulatory investigations in relation thereto

• Defence against private enforcement actions in relation to cartels, including mass claims, against i.a. Air France, LGE, InBev, Goldman Sachs
• Zimmer Biomet: acting as defence counsel in multiple lawsuits brought by patients and insurers in Dutch courts in respect of product liability and non-conformity claims in coordination with similar claims initiated across Europe
• Unilever Corporate Holdings N.V. in proceedings to squeeze out cumulative preference share holders
• Mediahuis during Enterprise Chamber proceedings in relation to the TMG take-over battle
• Ageas (formerly Fortis) in its multibillion Euro disputes with ABN AMRO Bank and the Dutch state following the break-up of the Fortis Group
• Eureko in an arbitration under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the states of Netherlands and Poland involving Eureko’s investment in PZU, Poland’s major insurance company, and the multibillion Euro settlement
• RBS in its defence in an arbitration involving ABN AMRO in relation to the demerger of ABN AMRO following the acquisition by a consortium

Daniella is professor international litigation at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and regularly writes and lectures on subjects in the area of litigation, corporate law and ESG.

Daniella studied law at the University of Utrecht and business economics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and holds a Ph.D in law from Erasmus University.

She speaks English and Dutch.