MAAK Advocaten

MAAK Advocaten is an Amsterdam law firm, founded in 2016, that concentrates on product regulation and supply-chain law for the manufacturing sector. Its EU AI Act work sits inside that product-compliance practice: the firm advises manufacturers, importers, distributors and authorised representatives on how the regulation classifies their AI systems, what CE-marking, conformity-assessment and technical-documentation duties follow for high-risk systems, and how those obligations interact with the product rules a client already faces. Related work covers fundamental-rights impact assessments and quality-management documentation. The team of roughly eighteen attorneys also handles commercial contracts, regulatory litigation and market-access questions, so AI Act advice is typically scoped as part of a wider market-entry or compliance matter rather than as a standalone assessment. MAAK is a legal practice, not a certification or audit shop: it does not implement ISO 42001 management systems and is not a notified body, so technical conformity assessments are performed elsewhere. A German desk serves German-speaking clients, and the firm works in Dutch, English and German. Pricing is not published; the firm offers a no-obligation initial consultation, after which work is scoped per matter.