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The Legal 500 EMEA 2025 ranks Ekelmans Advocaten. Our team is praised for its thorough and extensive knowledge of insurance law and its creative, hardworking and effective approach. One client describes us as “real thought-leaders in their profession (…)”. Read more

Ekelmans Advocaten reaffirms its position as one of the best law firms for the Dutch insurance sector. Chambers Europe has ranked our Insurance & Liability team. This recognition highlights our client-focused approach, strategic insight and extensive experience in the field. Read more

With effect from 1 January 2025, Sanne van der Salm has been appointed partner at Ekelmans Advocaten. Sanne has been with our firm for 9 years as a lawyer specialising in insurance and liability law. She acts as a fraud specialist for health and non-life insurers in often media-sensitive cases. We are very pleased that Sanne is now part of our partner group. Read more

As of October 1, 2024, Marcella de Haan has started as an attorney partner at Ekelmans Advocaten. We are very pleased to have Marcella join our team. She can now put her years of experience as a lawyer in insurance and liability law to work for clients of our firm. We are looking forward to working with Marcella again: she had previously worked in our office as an insurance and liability lawyer. Read more

The Legal 500 ranks Ekelmans Advocaten. ‘a highly competitive firm with no match regarding corporate/insurance work. The team understands the commercial and practical aspects of the insurance industry like no other.’ We thank our clients for these and other recommendations and for their trust! It inspires and encourages us to deliver our best. Legal 500 specifically mentions Frank Schaaf, Fleur van Kersbergen, Daan Spoormans, Astrid van Noort and Jan Ekelmans as recommended and key lawyers. Read more

International lawyers guide Chambers and Partners Europe released its 2024 rankings, indicating Ekelmans Advocaten to be one of the best Dutch Insurance law firms. We are proud that our firm is recommended for the seventeenth consecutive year. Read more

We are very pleased to announce the arrival of Taraneh Riyazi. She started as a partner at Ekelmans Advocaten on 1 January 2024. She has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer and is skilled in cassation as well as insurance and liability law. Read more

Astrid van Noort was present as a speaker at the launch of the 'Duplicate Claim Detector (DCD)'. Ekelmans Advocaten advised Verbond van Verzekeraars (the Dutch Association of Insurers) in the development of this Duplicate Claim Detector on a safe and responsible way of data exchange between insurers within the framework of the AVG. Read more

The Legal 500 ranks Ekelmans Advocaten as one of the best Dutch Insurance law firms. We are very happy to read the excellent feedback from our clients. Thank you! Praise for the entire team and their ‘clout and extensive specialist knowledge’. Legal 500 specifically mentions Daan Spoormans, Fleur van Kersbergen, Hanco Arnold, Jan Ekelmans, Frank Schaaf and Astrid van Noort as recommended or key lawyers. Read more