Richard van Schaik joined the Intellectual Property and Technology practice of DLA Piper in the Netherlands in 1999. As a partner, he advises on all aspects of intellectual property, including trademark, unauthorised parallel import and copyright matters.

Richard specialises in data protection Law. He heads the Dutch data protection team which advises clients from many business sectors, such as banking, IT, telecoms and advertising. He possesses experience of national and international data protection audits, transfer agreements (outside of EU), clearances, e-mail and internet policies, data security and provides advice on compliance issues.

In addition, Richard has specific expertise in advertising law. He has obtained many landmark decisions and has been involved in a great number of litigation procedures at every court level in the Netherlands and at the Advertising Code Committee.

He is a board member of the Dutch Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA). Richard is a guest speaker at congresses with respect to Data Protection and Advertising Law on a frequent basis.