Dieuwertje de Leeuw specialises in corporate, commercial and financial litigation. She advises and litigates in matters involving commercial disputes (e.g. performance and cancellation of contracts and broken-off negotiations), acquisition-related disputes (e.g. warranties, indemnities and earn-out provisions) shareholder conflicts and directors’ and officers’ liability. Dieuwertje is also a legal specialist in the areas of (prejudgment) attachments and enforcement of judgments and security rights and has garnered a wide range of experience in financial sector disputes, including disputes regarding duty of care issues, termination of banking relationships, fraud and AML matters.

Dieuwertje represents clients in proceedings before the public courts, in arbitration and in mediation. In addition, she is an (Mfn-registered) mediator.

Dieuwertje publishes and lectures on a regular basis. She is a guest lecturer at VU Amsterdam University in a course on the fundamentals of corporate and company law, and an editor of the corporate law journal Bedrijfsjuridische Berichten.

Dieuwertje is one of the founding partners in Finch Dispute Resolution. Before that, she worked as a lawyer for DLA Piper and Wijn & Stael.