
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Arbitrators

Eelco Meerdink
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Work Department
Litigation and Arbitration
Position
Partner (Arbitration and Litigation)
Career
Expertise:
Litigation Arbitration Restructuring & Insolvency Mass Claims Insurance Energy Life Sciences, Pharma & Healthcare Financial Institutions & Fintech
Eelco is a leading dispute resolution practitioner with extensive experience in complex and cross-border litigation, international arbitration and ADR. He represents companies and executive management in diverse industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, technology, energy, construction, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Eelco has a broad corporate, restructuring and financial litigation practice in which he often works with other international law firms.
Eelco is noted for effectively utilising a wide array of means, methods and techniques to resolve complex disputes, always with a sharp focus on the client’s interests in resolution of the dispute. Chambers comments: “He has a critical eye, giving problems their proper weight and gaining an objective perspective of what will be profitable for the client”, adding that “he is very sharp and has an enormous strategic insight.”
From 2015-2018 Eelco was head of the litigation and arbitration practice and member of De Brauw’s management committee. He frequently lectures and publishes on dispute resolution.
Languages
Dutch, English
Education
University of Utrecht
University College London
Columbia Law School