AKD is a legal advisory firm with practice areas that include administrative law, banking and finance, commercial contracting, corporate fraud and criminal law, corporate/M&A, corporate/structuring, dispute resolution, EU law, procurement law and competition, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, IT & data protection, private equity, and tax law. The Firm services clients in the business services, communications, construction, environmental, financial services, food, healthcare services, IT, life science, manufacturing, media, real estate, and technology hardware sectors. AKD was established in 1989 and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.