Clifford Chance's Amsterdam office has appointed nine associates to the role of counsel. Corporate lawyers Gregory Crookes and Herke van Hulst, finance lawyers Sander Klaassen, Nanette Rutgers, Quirine Eenhorst and Robert Smits, tax lawyers Michiel Sunderman and Timon Reijn and arbitration lawyer Juliette Luycks took on their positions this month. Amsterdam managing partner Jan ter Haar said: "With these appointments we are introducing a position that already exists in other Clifford Chance offices to the Netherlands."