Naomi Dempsey

Attorney-at-law | Counsel
Naomi Dempsey

Naomi is counsel in both our Employment & Pensions and Supreme Court Litigation teams. She has over twenty years of experience in two mutually reinforcing specialisations: employment law and Supreme Court litigation (cassation). For a number of years, she has also been litigating pension cases, both before the Supreme Court and in the lower courts, a distinctive combination that is not often found.

In her employment law practice, Naomi primarily advises employers, ranging from national mid market companies to international corporations. Her work covers the full spectrum, from hiring to dismissal and everything that comes before, in between and after. Her approach is practical and solution oriented: a negotiated outcome where possible, litigation where necessary.

Her cassation practice focuses on employment law, pension law, medical liability law and transport law. Drawing on that cassation experience, she is also regularly engaged to advise during appeal proceedings, whether or not with a view to subsequent proceedings before the Supreme Court.

In 2026 Naomi completed the Certified Pension Lawyer program cum laude, with a thesis on the Supreme Court’s pension cassation case law over the period 2000–2025, illustrating how employment law, pension law and cassation converge in her practice.

In addition, she publishes regularly. She writes the cassation chronicle on employment law in the Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (TRA) and is co author of the handbook Cassatie in the Burgerlijk Proces & Praktijk series. She also teaches for various institutes in the fields of employment and appellate procedural law and limitation periods.

  • Advised Stellantis N.V. on the legal merger between Peugeot Nederland N.V., Citroën Nederland B.V. and Opel Nederland B.V.
  • Advised Lumileds, a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, in its comprehensive financial restructuring. Lumileds emerged from a Chapter 11, resulting in a leadership transition and a funded debt reduction of approximately USD 1.4 billion.
  • Advised Libbey on the sale of its European operations, Royal Leerdam and Crisal Glass, to Anders Invest. Libbey is one of the world's largest glass tableware manufacturers.
  • CPL (VU Law Academy)
  • MJur (Oxford University)
  • LL.M. Civil Law (Leiden University)
  • Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2005

Expertise

Litigation
Business disputes can have a major impact on your organisation's reputation, continuity and financial position. Conflicts are becoming increasingly common due to growing regulation and social pressure. Shareholder disputes, contractual conflicts, directors' liability and collective actions invariably call for a well thought-out strategy and a thorough understanding of the sector.
Employment & Pensions
We provide strategic and decisive guidance to businesses on all employment law challenges with deep expertise and a sharp focus on results.
Supreme Court Litigation
Some cases are so complex or fundamental that they have to be taken to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court proceedings are conducted by specialist lawyers, known in the Netherlands as ‘cassation lawyers’.
Competition
We advise and assist national and international companies, institutions and governments in procedures before the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, the European Commission, foreign competition authorities, and the relevant (specialised) courts.
Dutch Caribbean
Houthoff’s Dutch Caribbean team advises on the laws of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, the BES islands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) and Suriname. The team handles a wide range of matters, which include the following.

Recommended

Legal 500

Employment (2026 Edition)

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Legal 500

Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation (2026 Edition)

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Legal 500

Employment (2025 Edition)
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Publications

7 April 2026
7 April 2026
Collective actions in the pension sector: storm in a teacup or calm before the storm? PensioenMagazine.
5 September 2025
5 September 2025
Kansen in cassatie. Houthoff.
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Cassatiekroniek arbeidsrecht 2020-2022. TRA. _x000d_
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