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Read and download the Dutch chapter of the latest Vertical Agreements guide of Lexology GTDT, as updated by Sarah Beeston, Pim Jansen and Nina Korstenbroek. You can access the chapter by clicking on the link below.

Epic Games (developer and owner of the online game 'Fortnite') has filed a complaint with the European Commission, concerning alleged abuse of dominance by Apple. This despite the fact that Epic Games has lost two drawn out procedures against Apple in the United States.

If a financier considers financing a development, a certain and timely exit is essential. To achieve this, the project must be finished, preferably within the agreed budget and period. For this to happen it is, in turn, essential that the contractor working on the project completes its job as agreed. This seems obvious and simple. Nevertheless, a lot of things can happen along the way. Where these lead to a gap in the budget, which the investor cannot or will not bridge, contractors working on Dutch developments have a relatively strong position based on the Dutch law statutory right of retention (builders lien), which typically even ranks prior to the development financier’s mortgage, as well as a general right to suspend working on the development until getting paid. Both could seriously affect the position of the financier and ultimately the end result for the contractor might still be that some of its invoices remain unpaid.