Nadia Adnani has been with Palthe Oberman since May 2011. Nadia is concerned with all aspects of employment law and public service law. She assists Dutch and international organisations as well as employees and public servants.

She advises and conducts legal proceedings on matters such as individual and collective redundancies, reorganisations, workplace privacy, and employment contracts (competition clauses, study costs clauses, etc.).

Nadia is involved in the work of War Child and the Najib Amhali Foundation. She also provides guidance in the prestigious programme The Boardroom of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In addition, Nadia regularly writes blogs on employment law topics, provides workshops, and has collaborated on the book ‘The Influence of Dismissal.’

Nadia graduated in the fields of Private Law and International & European Law from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has a broad legal background. Before she started practicing as a lawyer, Nadia worked for the Education Centre of the Vrije Universiteit as a coordinator in the Diversity and Study Success Department.

Marcus Draaisma specialises in employment law and insolvency law. He assists both large and small organisations in trade and industry and in the non-profit sector, as well as directors and professionals in dismissal proceedings and contract negotiations. Marcus operates in a wide area, including the financial, logistics, media and advertising, and construction sectors.

Lydia Milders is a tenacious lawyer with a pragmatic approach. 

Lydia is involved in:

• Guiding (international) reorganisations, advising on (individual and collective) dismissals and employee co-determination law. 
• Litigation, including on (breach of) confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-compete clauses.
• Fraud & workplace integrity issues, including: theft, breach of non-compete and/or non-disclosure clauses, unlawful competition. Collaboration with private investigation agencies, internal integrity departments and forensic IT experts. 
• Evidence gathering & seizure of evidence.
• Complaint procedures concerning transgressive behaviour in the workplace (including sexual harassment).
• The sick employee (problems with rehabilitation, illness & dismissal).

Lydia has been affiliated with Palthe Oberman since 2010. She studied at the University of Groningen.

Lydia regularly provides training on employment law issues and fraud in the workplace.

Apart from employment law, Christiaan Oberman also specialises in public service law. He advises both Dutch and international companies, including various listed companies and (semi-) public bodies. He is mainly involved in advising Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards. He also assists management boards and HR departments in reorganisations. In addition, he assists statutory directors and directors.

Publications, teaching and memberships

Christiaan teaches employment law to trainee lawyers in the context of their professional training (VSO) and delivers lectures and courses in that area. He also regularly publishes articles on employment law topics. Each year, he writes the Employment Law Chronicle for the Dutch Bar Journal (Advocatenblad), with the most important decisions in the area of employment law. Besides, he is a Board member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) and a member of the Board of Discipline.

In addition, Christiaan has been involved in the work of War Child since its foundation.

Legal directories

Chambers and Legal 500 recommend Christiaan for consecutive years:

• “strategic, highly skilled and technical” lawyer – Chambers & Partners
• “very good negotiator.” – Legal 500
• “his ability to build relationships with key internal stakeholders.” – Chambers & Partners
• “attentive to detail and service-focused,” – Chambers & Partners 2022

Stéphanie advises, litigates and negotiates on all aspects of employment law on behalf of Dutch and international companies as well as employees and executives. Given her background, Stéphanie has increasingly specialised in corporate employment law. She advises and assists Dutch and international employers in the context of mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, the legal position of managing directors, restructurings, employee participation, individual and collective dismissals, harmonisation of employment conditions and cross-border employment. Stéphanie also regularly mediates in boardroom conflicts.

Her regular client base includes scale-ups and international listed and other companies in the pharma, healthcare, technology and software sectors. Stéphanie has furthermore represented non-profit organisations for many years, including Stichting Hulphond Nederland.

Stéphanie is a guest lecturer in employment law at Leiden University. She also regularly gives courses and publishes articles on employment law topics.

Furthermore, Stephanie is passionately committed to charities and is socially involved. She is, for instance, a board member of the Friends For Life Foundation, which aims to offer education opportunities to Kenyan young adults, and also a board member of the Nieuwe Baarnsche School.

Stéphanie graduated from Leiden University in 2008, after which she worked as an employment lawyer at Baker McKenzie for many years.