Marit Bosselaar

Partner - Attorney at Law, Loyens & Loeff

Marit Bosselaar, attorney at law, is a member of the Dispute Resolution expert group of Loyens & Loeff N.V. in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She focuses on class actions and commercial litigation, including financial and ESG litigation.

Marit advises and litigates on commercial contracts and liability matters, including liability of financial institutions and ESG related issues. Marit has vast experience in class action litigation and advising on collective settlements. Marit is part of the firm wide ESG focus group and regularly litigates cases before the Dutch courts.

For more than four years, Marit was a board member of the Association of Young Litigators. She regularly publishes in scientific journals.

Recent matters that Marit has worked on include representing:

a broker in a Dutch class action on alleged manipulation of interest rate benchmarks
a group of car dealers in various Dutch class actions against multiple claim organisations relating to diesel emission devices in cars
a public utilities company in a Dutch class action on public interests
the former CEO of Airbus SE in a Dutch class action regarding shareholders’ claims
various financial institutions in legal proceedings on alleged unfair consumer contracts

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ESG in the Netherlands

Practice Notes

Executive narrativeIn practice, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework applicable in the Netherlands largely consists of EU rules applied in a market characterised by civil litigation and regulatory oversight.Supervisory authoritiesIn addition, the Dutch authorities pursue two pragmatic enforcement tracks:•consumer and competition-law are supervised by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). This includes oversight of sustainability claims, commercial practices and sustainability-related agreements. On greenwashing, the ACM has positioned its Sustainability Claims Guidelines as the baseline ‘language of proof’ for commercial practices (such as marketing, websites and labels) and it expects substantiation that is specific, current, and verifiable•the financial sector is supervised by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) focused on, among other things, ESG information in financial products, prospectuses and reporting. In its 2025/6 strategy, AFM made sustainability claims a supervisory priority for financial market participants and has published sector-specific expectations and review findingsGreenwashingThese two Dutch authorities lead to a dual-track claims

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