About Gijs Wanders

Gijs Wanders specialises in commercial litigation and collective or class actions. With more than eight years of experience handling Dutch class actions, his expertise particularly includes proceedings under the Wet afwikkeling massaschade in collectieve actie (WAMCA). He has been actively involved in various collective proceedings before both district courts and courts of appeal, as well as in mass settlements. His work covers a broad range of areas, including liability law and consumer law. Gijs predominantly acts on the claimants' side, acting for representative organisations and its individual participants.

Gijs regularly publishes on the latest developments in civil procedural law and collective redress.

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Education
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam: Master of Laws, Company Law
  • Grotius: National and International Contract Law
Admitted to bar
  • The Netherlands
Legal practice areas the Netherlands Bar’s register

Gijs Wanders has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

 

  • Law of obligations 


Based on this registration, Gijs is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.