LXA enters the Legal500!

LXA advises Prijsvrij on the acquisition of D-reizen

A team of specialists of LXA, led by Herman Knotter, advised Prijsvrij on its acquisition of D-reizen.

LXA celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Notorious platform Wish.com loses lawsuit against REACT after refusal to disclose seller info

Platform Wish.com owned by (ContextLogic) is a concern for many brand owners. Counterfeit products are abundantly available on the platform. It was for a good reason REACT decided to take Wish.com to Court earlier this March. On April 26, 2021 the Amsterdam Court ruled in favor of REACT that Wish.com should disclose the information of its users who have been active in selling counterfeit. A new and important victory for brand owners and their representatives in the fight against platforms trying to hide behind rules on privacy when asked by brand owners to share the information they have.

Which obligations are incumbent upon Facebook to prevent counterfeit advertisements on its platform?

Even as a "neutral intermediary provider" Facebook is ordered to do more to ban advertisements for counterfeit products from its platform.

COTY/Amazon: German Supreme Court: Does Amazon need to do more on preventing counterfeit?

In April last year, the ECJ (Court of Justice of the European Union) was requested to answer prejudicial questions on liability for platforms in the case between Coty and Amazon. Coty noticed that products marked with one of their trademarks were being sold through Amazon. The Court was asked to rule whether or not Amazon could be held liable for...

Smokey and the Bandit part #2

In December 2020, the Court of Appeal in The Hague rendered a decision in a case concerning the seizure of a batch of tobacco sticks on its way to the Philippines physically present at the ECT terminal in Rotterdam. The goods were qualified as goods in transit, not intended for import into the EU.

LXA OVERSEES THE SALE OF THE SHARES IN SMARTCOAT HELD BY THE FRENCH FINOXA

Working on the sell-side on behalf of the management and shareholders of the French based Finoxa Sarl, LXA M&A specialists Roald Subnel and Job de Wert have overseen the transfer of its 20% participation of the shares in the Dutch based SmartCoat B.V.to its co-shareholder Horticoop B.V., which has become the sole shareholder by means of this transaction.

REQUEST TO LIFT SEIZURE OF HEETS (PHILIP MORRIS) TOBACCO STICKS IN TRANSIT GONE UP IN SMOKE

In a preliminary Court decision the Court of Rotterdam ruled on October 19, 2020 in favor of Philip Morris in a ‘goods-in-transit’-case.