Kasper van Haaren offers employers in-depth experience across employment and pensions law handling a wide variety of matters, including mass redundancies, consultations with works councils and trade unions, employment contract terminations of senior employees and executives, changing and harmonizing terms and conditions of employment (including pension plans), internal investigations, pension transitions, and incentive plans.
Kasper also regularly represents employers in court in unfair dismissal claims and noncompete enforcement disputes. In addition, he assists employers and pension funds with high-profile pension litigation matters that are at the interface of employment and pension law. His work typically has an international dimension, as demonstrated by his counsel to international clients on multijurisdictional projects. Apart from litigious and contentious employment matters, he advises on the employment and pensions aspects of Dutch and cross-border transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, sale of businesses, corporate reorganizations, transfers of undertaking, and carve-outs. Kasper also assists with the employment and pension aspects of bankruptcies.
In addition, Kasper regularly publishes on employment and pension law matters in academic law journals. He is a permanent contributor to the Dutch Employment Case Law Journal (JAR), and he is a member of the Association of Dutch Employment Lawyers (VAAN) and the Dutch Association for Pension Law (VPR).
Experience
"Is a very service-minded and sophisticated lawyer who puts the needs of his clients first. Even in difficult situations, he delivers pragmatic solutions time and time again."Chambers Europe
- University of Amsterdam (Post-Academic Courses in Dutch Employment Law [PALA] 2024; LL.M. in Dutch Employment Law cum laude 2019; LL.B. in Dutch Law 2018, with minors in Legal Research and Dutch Employment Law)
- Amsterdam
- Chambers Europe: ranked as an "Associate to Watch" in employment (2025), where clients say he "is hard-working, engaged and open-minded — I would need a dictionary for all the positive terms I could use for him. He is a rockstar."