Linklaters

Daniella Strik heads Linklaters’ Litigation & Arbitration practice in the Netherlands. She specialises in corporate and securities litigation and defends various clients against cartel private enforcement actions.

Her international arbitration experience includes acting as counsel in arbitrations under i.a. the ICC, UNCITRAL and NAI rules and ad hoc proceedings. She is a member of the advisory and supervisory board of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and former President of the International Arbitration Commission at AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers, 2003-2006).

Daniella engages in academic debate by writing articles and lecturing in the areas of corporate law and arbitration. She is a leading author in the Netherlands on directors’ liability, on which topic she published a PhD thesis in 2010. Daniella is a board member of Vereniging Corporate Litigation (Corporate Litigation Association).

Daniella is recommended for dispute resolution in the Netherlands by the PLC Cross Border Dispute Resolution Handbook, Chambers Europe's Leading Lawyers for business and Legal 500.

Daniella studied at the University of Utrecht (Law) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (Business Economics).

Recent highlights include: 

• representing ageas (formerly Fortis) in its disputes with the Dutch State and ABN AMRO in relation to mandatory convertible securities and the 2008 break up of the Fortis group.
• representing Air France in its defence against damages claims initiated in the Netherlands in relation to an alleged air cargo cartel.
• representing TPSA, a subsidiary of France Telecom, in its defence against enforcement actions in the Netherlands in relation to an arbitral award rendered in its dispute against DPTG.
• representing Dutch insurer Eureko B.V. in the highly publicised arbitration under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland on Eureko’s investment in the largest insurance company in Poland, PZU S.A.
• successfully defending Dutch based pan-European real estate investor VastNed Offices/Industrial N.V. against an EUR 100 million derivative claim of Multiplan Vastgoed B.V. et al  in relation to the bankruptcy of one of Multiplan's subsidiaries.
• representing the VEB (Association of Stockholders) in relation to the cash out merger of Shell at the Enterprise Chamber at the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam.
• representing PricewaterhouseCoopers in relation to the inquiry proceedings at the Enterprise Chamber at the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam relating to alleged mismanagement at KPNQwest.