Ahold's stichting was first introduced in 2003 and will expire in December 2018.
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Other plaintiffs' firms, meanwhile, are pushing for VW to settle with all of its shareholders through the Dutch stichting process.
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But a corporate defendant can enter global, opt-out shareholder damages settlements with special Dutch foundations called stichtings.
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The result, Haazen predicted, will be that fewer big-money investors will sign up for stichtings pushing for global securities settlements.
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It lists as its general partner Stichting Tilbourg Crossing, a Netherlands-based entity that the documents say was also part of the Odebrecht bribes structure.