Didi Koenders

Attorney-at-law | Associate
Didi Koenders

Didi specialises in competition litigation and represents companies in national and international commercial disputes, with a particular focus on cartel damage cases. She also advises and litigates in other competition law disputes within civil proceedings.

  • Represented Orbia and its subsidiary Vestolit in landmark civil damages proceedings before the Amsterdam District Court relating to the EU competition law ethylene infringement. In the first major damages proceedings involving four purchasers of ethylene, the claimants brought billion-euro claims alleging that the infringement had resulted in lower ethylene prices, causing them significant harm. The Court concluded that it was implausible that the infringement had caused any damage to the claimants and dismissed both claims in their entirety
  • LL.M. Labour Law (Leiden University)
  • LL.M. Corporate Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • LL.B. Dutch Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2022

Expertise

Competition Litigation / Private Enforcement
Damages claims resulting from violations of EU and national competition law play an increasingly prominent role in the context of company liability.