Distribution & agency
Distribution and agency are widely used in marketing and selling products and services and have a special form of contracting. The agreements within a distribution or agency network must therefore be properly arranged. This requires both commercial and specialized legal knowledge. We assist our clients with national and international distribution and agency, setting up or terminating distribution networks and agency relationships and all related contracts. We also assist our clients in conducting legal proceedings about distribution and agency.
For international matters or aspects, we have a worldwide network of specialized lawyers.
Tessa de Mönnink
partner/lawyer
Annelies van Zoest
partner/lawyer
Micheline Don
advocaat/partner
News
Announcement
News Announcement Parker Advocaten 28 december 2018There’s so much we share. So why not share the same name? From 1 January 2019, De Grave De Mönnink Spliet Advocaten is joined by Scope Advocaten, continuing under the name Parker Advocaten. Taking a different...
Franchise and distribution development
There are a number of interesting recent developments in the field of franchise and distribution:
Franchise bill ‘on hold’
First of all, the franchise bill, on which an internet consultation was held in 2017, has been put ‘on hold’ in October 2017. In the coalition agreement Rutte III[1], which the new Dutch government presented on 10 October 2017, says about franchise:
The growing tensions between the interests of suppliers and resellers in the era of the ‘Omnichannel strategy’
In issue 3 (September 2016) of the “Tijdschrift voor internetrecht” (Magazine for internet law; https://denhollander.info/Internetrecht), Silvie Wertwijn and Tessa de Mönnink have published an article dealing with the growing tensions between the interests of suppliers and of resellers in the era of “omnichannel strategy”. Using the following link you can download and read the full article.
Contracts & distribution
The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has imposed a € 500,000 on web shop owner T.O.M. bv. and its two directors for violating the rules on reimbursing cancelled orders. T.O.M. bv sells internet-bikes, internet-toys, internet-sportclubs and internet-sportcasuals.