Attorney at law, Partner

Sabin Tigu

Specialisation

Sabin primarily concentrates on trademarks, design rights, copyright and commercial law. Furthermore, Sabin is very familiar with domain name disputes and has litigated many times before the administrative courts such as WIPO. Besides that, he has an extensive experience in relation to large-scale and long-term projects for international clients, managing and assisting in parallel trade and anti-counterfeiting problems such as Custom detentions.

What clients say

'Our contacts have been the extremely renowned Willem Leppink and his outstanding younger partner Sabin Tigu. We greatly appreciate this collaboration, especially their enormous commitment, their goal to always achieve more than their competitors, their enormous experience and the passion with which they practice.’ - Legal 500 EMEA 2024

‘Willem Leppink and Sabin Tigu are a fantastic team. All round good performers and really nice to deal with.’ - Legal 500 EMEA 2024

‘Willem and Sabin have a great team of young lawyers that all have the same solution driven, pragmatic approach. With this team we can have an efficient way of dealing with online and domain name issues.’ - Legal 500 EMEA 2023

‘Willem and Sabin both are very trustworthy, approachable and hands-on lawyers. To the point and willing to think with the business rather than only from a legal point of view.’ - Legal 500 EMEA 2023

“Sabin feels almost like in-house counsel because of how customer centred he is. He is extremely inventive and proactive in his approach, and is aware of the priorities and restrictions that apply to business. He ought to be everyone’s first port of call in the Netherlands, and the only reason I am hesitant to suggest him is because we don’t want him to become too popular.” - WTR 1000 2023

Willem Leppink heads the group (intellectual property) and is supported by partner Sabin Tigu in assisting clients including Harley-Davidson, Arla Foods, Donna Karan, and the Ford Motor Company.

Background

Sabin has, after pursuing a career as professional tennis player, completed the Bachelor’s programme in Dutch Law and the Master’s in Comporate Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2011. In 2012 he joined Ploum.

Memberships

  • Advertising law association (VvRr)
  • Benelux association for trademark and design law (BMM)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)

The Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister)

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

  • Intellectual property law (intellectueel eigendomsrecht)

Based on this registration, Sabin Tigu 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.

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