Leonore Bruining has been a practicing attorney since 1998 and joined Wijn & Stael as partner in 2025. Her practice involves counseling and litigating complex commercial disputes, with a focus on corporate law disputes and (international) arbitrations. She also acts as defense counsel in class actions. 

Driven and Dynamic Litigator
Leonore is a tactful, results-oriented litigator with a strong drive to win. “I’m always looking for that one factor that can make the difference in a case: what argument or strategy will achieve the best outcome for my client? And while I enjoy convincing the court or arbitrator with clear and compelling arguments, I also take great satisfaction in securing a favorable settlement for my client.” Pragmatic where possible, creative when necessary, Leonore brings a unique blend of sharp strategic acumen and strong persuasive powers to the table. 

Extensive International Experience as a Litigator
Leonore represents a wide variety of clients, including major international corporations and financial institutions, companies in the aviation, private equity, automotive, manufacturing, leisure, and tech industries, as well as executive and supervisory board directors. She has extensive experience in litigating disputes relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, director and shareholder liability, prospectus liability, cartel damages claims, enforcement of securities, squeeze-outs, and a wide range of commercial disputes. 

She has published articles on squeeze-out cases in the ‘Annual Review of the Corporate Litigation Association’ (Geschriften vanwege de Vereniging Corporate Litigation) and provides workshops on class actions.

Professional Activities & Memberships

• Member of the Corporate Litigation Association 
• Member of the Dutch Association for Procedural Law (NVvP)

Academic Background

• Corporate Litigation, cum laude, 2005, Grotius Academy
• University of Amsterdam, cum laude, 1998

Cases

• Represented an airline in a major class action related to the so-called Air Cargo cartel.
• Advised a bank in a class action regarding alleged manipulation of interest rate benchmarks.
• Advised a multinational corporation in an ICC arbitration case involving a shareholder dispute.
• Acted as lead counsel for a publicly listed company in an NAI arbitration case involving a cross-border dispute with a venture capital fund manager
• Represented Barclays in a case before the Enterprise Chamber regarding the acquisition of ABN AMRO.
• Represented energy company Sembcorp in a case before the Enterprise Chamber concerning its bid for the shares in Cascal, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company. 

Bar register of legal practice areas
Leonore has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

• Civil procedural law

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.