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Area(s) of expertise:

Internet and e-commerce
Media
Intellectual Property
Sports and Law

Practice areas
  • Intellectual property
  • Freedom of speech and press Copyright
  • Database rights
  • Design rights
  • Advertising
  • E-commerce 
Education
  • Law, VU Amsterdam, 1993
  • IT law, Grotius Academy cum laude, 1997

Otto Volgenant

Otto has been with Kennedy Van der Laan since 1993. His practice focuses on advising clients on the legal aspects of intellectual property, new media and e-commerce, as well as on drafting complex contracts and conducting legal proceedings. His special areas of interest are freedom of speech and press, database law and copyright law. Otto is board member of the Netherlands Media and Communication Law Association.

Otto teaches courses on copyright and e-commerce and speaks and writes regularly on copyright, electronic publishing, e-commerce and internet.

Otto is a man of many talents. He plays the electric guitar, also in the Kennedy Van der Laan house band. He plays tennis, he regularly cruises the Amsterdam canals in his sustainable, electrical ZuidWesterSloep.
In the future he'll cruise with his daughter Micky and his son Jesper, who were born in 2006 and 2007. Within Kennedy Van der Laan, Otto is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility Program committee.

Recommendations
Legal 500 2010 - Intellectual property

"Kennedy Van der Laan advises clients in the IT, telecommunications, life sciences, sports, publishing, media and financial sectors. Alfred Meijboom and Otto Volgenant are recommended."


Who's Who Legal 2009
 
Otto is recommended in the field of Internet en E-commerce