Diederik De Groot Email & Phone Number

Diederik de Groot retired nine years ago from the international partnership DLA Piper to start his own law firm. As an independent legal adviser and arbitration lawyer, he is available to accept appointments as an arbitrator in addition to acting in an advisory capacity.Diederik has extensive experience of over 45 years in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration. At DLA Piper, he has been primarily engaged in the firm's international dispute resolution practice. He has handled complex litigations and arbitrations in a wide range of areas: corporate disputes, disputes between shareholders, joint ventures, post-acquisition issues, investment disputes, commercial transactions (international sales of capital goods, distribution and agency, manufacturing contracts, franchising), liability issues (including product liability), private anti-trust claims (EU competition law), transfer of technology, telecom disputes (interconnect issues and privatisation) and intellectual property (license agreements).Such disputes generally feature issues of private international law and comparative law, EU competition law, accounting issues, technical/engineering matters, cross-border gathering of evidence, and complex damage assessments.Diederik has handled various types of arbitrations, both international and domestic (ICC, UNCITRAL and NAI), ADR proceedings (expert determination and mediation) and arbitration related court proceedings (including the Dutch court proceedings that resulted in the landmark ECJ decision in Eco Swiss v Benetton (C-126/97, ECR I-3055)).Diederik served as an arbitrator in a number of ICC, DIS, NAI and ad hoc arbitrations. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He lectured and delivered papers at various conferences.Specialties: International commercial arbitration, domestic arbitration and commercial litigation

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