As of 1 January 2011 Frans Haak is partner at Stek. Frans advises many leading financial institutions on banking, finance, restructuring and insolvency. Before he joined Stek in 2008, Frans worked at ABN AMRO Bank and Houthoff Buruma.
Stek is the only boutique firm that made the top ten list of legal M&A advisers. Stek acted on M&A deals with a value of EUR 517 million in the first 3 quarters of 2010. Please click here for the full top ten (in Dutch only).
In Dutch periodical Quote of October 2008 Jan Erik makes a desparate flying attempt from Steks new office garden in a series on “high flyers” in the Dutch legal profession. Click here for the article (in Dutch).
Jan Erik Janssen has been voted best energy lawyer in the Netherlands by his peers. The contest was organised by the Dutch legal journal Mr.
Stek congratulates IMC Weekendschool on its 10th anniversary. IMC Weekendschool (www.weekendschool.nl) is a school for supplementatory education on a voluntary basis for motivated youngsters between 10 and 14 years of age from underpriviliged socio-economic backgrounds. A number of attornies of Stek is guest teacher for the subject Law at the weekend school […]
Following the preliminary judgments in summary proceeedings of the President of the District Court of The Hague and the Court of Appeal in 2005, the District Court of The Hague ruling in proceedings on the merits has decided again in favour of cigar producers British American Tobacco, Ritmeester Cigars, Royal Agio Cigars and Swedish Match Cigars […]
Dutch business magazine Sprout has included Stek in its annual Challenger list. According to Sprout, Stek is among the “fifty best new challengers” of the Dutch corporate establishment. Please see attached document to read the accompanying interview with Jasper Stek (in Dutch).
Sprout Challengers 2007 – Stek
On 9 March 2007 Stek was named the most successful new law firm in the Netherlands. The award is presented every two years by KSU Legal Publishers.From the jury report:“In this category there is a clear winner: Stek. The firm was founded in 2005 and currently already has twelve lawyers and three vacancies. The firm distinguishes […]
Stek enters the ranking of the 2007 edition of the authoritative guide ‘Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers’. Stek receives accolades in the practice areas ‘Competition/Antitrust’ and ‘Energy & Natural Resources’. It has been announced that Stek will also be recommended in the category ‘Dispute Resolution’ in the launch edition of Chambers Europe later this […]
The Netherlands arts sector gets rules for good governance. At the request of the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science the Working Group on Cultural Governance was formed in 2005 to draft those rules. This has resulted in the Cultural Governance Code. Please click here for more information on the Code.Stek partner Maarten […]
In 2004 the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports imposed a fine on Ritmeester for infringement of the Tobacco Act, more specifically the ban on tobacco advertising. The District Court rejected the pleas to have the contested decision annulled. In appeal the Trade en Industry Appeals Tribunal (CBB) awarded the arguments brought forward by Ritmeester and […]
Stek features in the 25 May 2006 edition of Legal Week. Please click here for the article “Preparing a start up for take off “.
Advocatie.nl, the news site for the Dutch legal community, wrote an article on the opening of Stek with the title “New York on the canals”. The article, in Dutch, can be read here (in Dutch).