Ianika is a co-founder of Rubicon Impact & Litigation and the Head of Global Dispute Resolution & Collective Redress. She is a pioneer in collective redress and has held the first European professorship in this field since 2007. She combines academia with practice and is internationally recognised for her knowledge of strategies for resolving cross-border mass disputes, using innovative litigation and alternative dispute resolution approaches. 

Ianika was previously a partner with a large litigation boutique where she was member of the Financial and Commercial Litigation practice group, has also worked in-house for two publicly listed litigation funders and was prior to joining Rubicon Impact & Litigation a founding partner of another disputer resolution boutique.

Having assisted corporate clients, collective redress litigants, litigation funders, governmental and non-profit organisations, ‘bookbuild’ entities, case originators, and Dutch and foreign legal counsel on all aspects of mass claim dispute resolution, Ianika is a ‘mass claims all-rounder’.

She is much sought after for legal opinions and the structuring and implementation of creative litigation strategies in multi-jurisdictional disputes, particularly in the areas of investor protection, competition, data privacy, product liability and consumer law. 

Ianika is alumna of Tilburg University and holds a PhD on Access to Justice in Mass Claims. She is a founding editor of the Journal of Mass Claims.