Jessica de Rooij

Jessica advises and litigates in complex and cross-border commercial and corporate disputes. Her areas of expertise include collective actions and settlement. A secondment at a large Dutch bank and numerous years of working experience in a banking and insolvency practice have also equipped Jessica to advise on financial disputes.

Examples of work

  • Represents all Dutch Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Škoda dealers in the class action for the Stichting Volkswagen Car Claim.
  • Represented the Supervisory Board of SRK and the Vereniging Groep Rechtsbijstandverzekering (Dutch association for group legal assistance) in their dispute regarding the cancellation by Nationale-Nederlanden and Aegon of their membership and participation.
  • Represents a brewery in an international dispute with one of its distributors resulting from the termination of a contract.
  • Leaderland: represented the temporary director appointed by the Enterprise Chamber and the Leaderland company.
  • Jessica de Rooij is a skilled professional, a clear communicator, and is very diligent.
    LEGAL 500 2024
  • Jessica de Rooij is an excellent and impressive individual. She is super smart and sophisticated. A pleasure to work with.
    Chambers Global 2024
  • She is a very strong lawyer, result-driven, responsive, knowledgeable, modest and hard-working.
    Chambers Global 2024
  • Jessica de Rooij combines extensive experience with excellent and practical legal advice.
    LEGAL 500
  • Jessica de Rooij is a great advocate for her clients with a strong practical sense of what really matters in a case.
    LEGAL 500

  • Other work experience

    Jessica previously was a lawyer at De Breij Evers Boon (2017) and Norton Rose Fulbright (2007-2016).

  • Education

    Dutch law, University of Utrecht (2007)

  • Memberships

    Corporate Litigation Association
    Netherlands Association for Comparative and International Insolvency Law (NVRII)

  • Languages

    Dutch, English