Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 Edition

Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 www.finance-monthly.com 22 NETHERLANDS IT & COMMUNICATIONS LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR ABOUT ANJA E. DEKHUIJZEN Anja Dekhuijzen is one of the leading IT, Outsourcing and Privacy lawyer in the Netherlands. She frequently advises clients on Outsourcing, IT contracts, GDPR and Data Protection, IT disputes and the Cloud with 25 years of experience. Anja holds an LLM (MCJ) law degree from New York University School of Law, which she obtained after graduating with two master degrees from University of Amsterdam (LLM and Master of Legal Public Administration. A trusted sparring partner for C-suite executives, Anja Dekhuijzen is renowned for keeping a helicopter view of sourcing deals, finding solutions even in the most challenging circumstances. Her overview enables her to precisely identify, and more importantly, resolve bottlenecks sourcing transactions. She in experienced in instructing and driving international teams with various areas of legal expertise. After being a Partner for almost a decade at a large national and global law firm, Anja Dekhuijzen is co-founder of Whitebridge. Legal 500 2018 recommends Whitebridge and Anja Dekhuijzen: “Outsourcing and data privacy are particular strengths of Whitebridge’s team which is led by Anja Dekhijzen. Myriad International Holding instructed Dekhuijzen on various matters, including the contracts for a new data centre and a new identity management platform.” Anja is former Co-President of the Outsourcing Committee of the Information Technology Law Association (Itechlaw) as well as former Vice President of the E-Commerce Committee of Itechlaw, and former Board member of the CIO Academy, and teached IT and liability, E commerce and Open Source at the Grotius Academy. Anja publishes frequently on privacy and blockchain in CDO Magazine. Anja has co-authored three books on outsourcing (2008), e-commerce (2001) and the millennium bug (1998). She has written over 100 articles and speaks on IT, outsourcing and data protection. Whitebridge has been Member of the ITECHLAWplanning committee of the European Conference 2013, which took place in October 2013 in Amsterdam. Anja was admitted to the Amsterdam Bar in 1991, after graduating at the University of Amsterdam with qualifications in both Dutch Law and Legal Public Administration. She also graduated with a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University School of Law. ABOUT PAVLE BOJKOVSKI Pavle Bojkovski is an experienced IT advisor. He is Senior Advisor at Whitebridge. Pavle has extensive experience in advising both customers and IT providers in the fields of sourcing, IT contracts, TUPE, public procurement, privacy and disputes. Pavle is a keen analyst who loves finding solutions that make legal sense but also business and technological sense. His clients are frequently delighted by his capacity to spot solutions to seemingly impossible challenges. Pavle has been advising clients in the IT industry since 2002. Pavle is a Dutch resident and holds a law degree from the University of Amsterdam, LLM, International Law. FIRM PROFILE Whitebridge Advocatuur BV is a leading boutique law firm in the Netherlands in the field of privacy, outsourcing and IT law. We have profound experience and knowledge in the field of GDPR, Data Protection and all aspects related toData and Cloud. Our experience in the field of outsourcing law and TUPE, reaches out to large, complex and international deals. We represent leading companies, governments as well as IT companies in these fields. We usually join the team of our clients at an early stage of the IT or outsourcing decision making process, and help them through the negotiations to get the deal done. Whitebridge Advocatuur BV was founded with the aim of providing a more accessible and dedicated hands on service offering to clients. Our firm’s is focused on delivering high-end solutions to the challenges that leading firms are presented with when dealing with cutting edge technology. We advise. We negotiate. When needed we also litigate, although we take particular pride in finding non-contentious solutions. Our clients appreciate the frank manner in which we deliver thorough advice turning detailed legal complexities into actionable knowledge. As a team, we are happy to see that our approach works. Ever since Whitebridge Advocatuur BV was founded our efforts have been rewarded both by the attention of the leading rankings but more importantly in the ongoing stream of challenging work. We have had the pleasure of serving not only leading corporate clients but also national and international governmental and non- governmental bodies. Clients continue to recognize our capacity in dealing with all the niceties and complexities of international assignments, valuing not just the language skills present in our team. AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Outsourcing and TUPE • General IT Law • GDPR and Data Protection • Cloud • Big Data • XaaS