Practice description

Niels van Steijn

Attorney at law

Groenendijk & Kloppenburg Advocaten

Rijnsburgerweg 141

Postbus 788

2300 AT Leiden

Tel.: +31(0)71 515 58 43

Fax: +31(0)71 517 27 20

E-mail: n.van.steijn@groenendijk.com

Website: www.groenendijk.com

Career:

Niels van Steijn graduated from Leiden University with a degree in Dutch law in 1998. He started his career  as an attorney in 1998 with a major international law firm (Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam). At this firm he specialized in pharmaceutical-, healthcare- and intellectual property law. In 2002 ? 2003 he worked for the University of Leiden, advising the university on, among other areas, civil-,  administrative- and intellectual property law. He continued his career with Baker & McKenzie in 2003 and joined Groenendijk & Kloppenburg in 2007. He has been admitted to the Dutch bar since 1999.

Practice area:

Niels van Steijn practices general civil-  and administrative law and has experience in litigation before the Dutch civil and administrative courts (including the Dutch Supreme Court). Furthermore, he has experience in drafting  several types of agreements.

Apart from his knowledge of general civil-  and administrative law, he has specific knowledge of pharmaceutical-, healthcare- and intellectual property law. For example, he has advised or represented clients in the following fields: reimbursement, classification, advertising and parallel import of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, regulatory matters and permits, clinical trials, publications, government grants, tariffs and prices, official recognition of EU and non-EU education/ qualifications (BIG-register), relations between the pharmaceutical industry and health professionals and unfair competition. In addition, he has drafted, reviewed and negotiated various types of sector related agreements, such as service-, license- , research- , technology transfer- , material transfer-,  confidentiality and clinical trial agreements as well as general terms and conditions.

Examples of pharmaceutical cases handled by  Niels van Steijn:

§         Representing a pharmacist against a group of general practitioners who were pioneering in the joint exploitation of a pharmacy. The Court of Appeal in s-Hertogenbosch declared this construction unlawful  (www.rechtspraak.nl, LJN: AW0703);

§         Providing legal assistance to pharmacists in support of their successful lobby activities during the parliamentary treatment of the new Pharmaceuticals Act;

§         Representing a group of approximately 150 Dutch pharmacists against a tariff decision of the Dutch tariffs authority lowering the reimbursement tariffs of Dutch pharmacists; the case was successfully completed when the tariff decision was  suspended in summary proceedings and finally cancelled in proceedings on the merits (www.rechtspraak.nl, LJN: AO0546);

§         Representing a pharmaceutical company and obtaining an injunction against a competitor in a pharmaceutical advertising case before the Dutch Code Committee (?Codecommissie van de Stichting CGR?);

Publications:

·                     ?Mobil Oil III, een uitvinding of een ontdekking??, E.M. Meijers Instituut, Leiden, 1999 (ISBN 90 70062 21 6); published thesis on Dutch patent law, awarded the 1998 ?Jongbloed? price for best legal thesis of Leiden University;

·                ?Internet@advertising of Pharmaceuticals in Europe?, C.F. Muller Verlag / Baker & McKenzie European Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Practice Group, 2000 (co-author of the Dutch chapter);

·                ?Promoting Medical Products in Europe?, Baker & McKenzie European Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Practice Group, 2004 (co-author of the Dutch chapter);

·                ?Onderzoeksgeneesmiddelen en compassionate use?, JGRplus, 2004, article on research pharmaceuticals and compassionate use, published in the leading Dutch journal on pharmaceutical law.