| LegalTech
Introducing Kennedy Van der Laan | LegalTech.
A seamless triangle of legal expertise, consultancy experience and process design to optimize in-house legal operations and with it, the overall performance of your business.
Complementary to our legal services, we streamline the flow of legal intelligence to open up new insights, and to create smarter solutions to empower faster decision making.
We bring in-house counsels in-sync with the future and with that – the company as a whole.
About us
To deal with the challenges of our time, in-house counsel operations need to flow. Free from traditional pipeline structures. Free from mismatched processes and crisscrossed communication lines. Free from information backlog.
As a law firm, we have made it our mission to do exactly that. To free in-house counsel operations from all that slows them down.
Bringing in Kennedy Van der Laan | LegalTech leads to a fast-flowing stream of intelligence. Interactive, intersecting and interdepartmental. Processes, people and systems organically connected in an easy-to-grasp, easy-to-use digital environment.
We pair our legal expertise with native consultancy and IT skills. A triangle of knowledge, shaped to synchronize and streamline every imaginable aspect of in-house counsel work.
In this way, we help in-house legal teams to move faster and work smoother. Improving their performance and with that, the performance of the business.
As user adoption is key, we use service design methods to involve the team in various stages of the development process. This allows for an active feedback loop at all stages of development.
Market recognition
Chambers Fintech 2020 - Fintech Legal - Band 1
What the team is known for
With one of the largest dedicated FinTech teams in the Netherlands, the firm is able to assist large financial institutions alongside a suite of scaleup FinTechs. In addition, Kennedy Van der Laan has a portfolio of LegalTech solutions it can offer to clients.
Strengths
"We operate in a highly delicate regulatory environment due to issues from banks and our competitors. Kennedy Van der Laan is able to help us with the most difficult matters in this regard."
"It's a full-service firm. They have spent a lot of effort in understanding blockchain, especially regarding new issues coming up. They're really well known for blockchain solutions, for robo-advising and for AI matters."
Work highlights
Advised several large online booking agents, on the implications of PSD2 and the scope of the Interchange Fee Regulation.
Notable practitioners
Joris van Horzen heads the FinTech team and specialises in payments, alternative lending and the regulatory elements relevant to IT contracting in the FinTech space. An interviewee describes him as "one of the pioneers in this context, I think. A real FinTech lawyer." Another market insider says: "Joris is really a good guy with a great sense of humour. I love the laid-back approach."