About Jeffrey Kleywegt

Jeffrey Kleywegt is a partner and attorney-at law at AKD who brings almost a decade’s worth of experience to the table in complex corporate and commercial litigation.

He is recognised for his in-depth expertise and dedication to class action litigation. He is instrumental in the management and success of an array of cases handled by his team, including the emissions litigation against leading automotive manufacturers, as well as the Truck Cartel litigation.

Jeffrey's exceptional ability and proactive approach have not gone unnoticed by his clientele, with clients’ testimonials in The Legal 500 highlighting him and his team as “proactive, well-informed, and having an outstanding position in the market”, as well as “extremely responsive, creative and client focused" and “a pleasure to work with.”

Jeffrey is featured as a key lawyer in The Legal 500: EMEA in the inaugural ranking table for Dispute Resolution: Class Actions (2024) and is recognised as a key lawyer for Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation.

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Education
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam: Dutch law, master's degree in Business Law & Economics and Business
Admitted to bar
  • The Netherlands
Legal practice areas the Netherlands Bar’s register

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

 

  • Law of obligations

 

Based on this registration, Jeffrey 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.