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If you do business with a Dutch company, set up a company in the Netherlands or merge with a Dutch company, you will have to deal with corporate law issues such as what legal entity suits your company, how companies in the Netherlands are legally structured, how the powers are divided within companies and what legal means there are to manage a company.

This article gives an overview of Dutch corporate law. The following topics will be discussed: (the incorporation of) legal entities under Dutch corporate law, corporate bodies and their powers, the rules applying to mergers and arbitration between shareholders.