Mrs Merel van Asch > Loyens & Loeff > Rotterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
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Mrs Merel van Asch

Position
For more information, please click the following link: Merel van Asch | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)
Career
Merel van Asch, attorney at law, is a member of the Litigation & Risk Management Practice Group in our Rotterdam office. Merel is head for the Insurance and Liability team and leads the insurance(litigation)practice.
Merel is an expert in liability and insurance law. She has a particular focus on policy disputes, professional and product liability and technical damages. She often works on complex cases in international settings with high stakes involved. Clients that she works for include corporate insureds, insurance intermediaries, (re)insurers and (other) professional organisations. Merel is active in various industries, including insurance, financial services, construction and manufacturing. Merel has substantial experience in (cross-border) litigation disputes relating to commercial and insurance law. Merel regularly teaches on legal subjects relating to her practice.Work highlights include representing:
An industrial client in crisis management and recovery of damages after the discovery of asbestos;
One of the largest global insurance intermediaries in various litigations regarding all kind of insurances and duty of care;
Corporate clients and financial institutions in various disputes on the coverage under insurance policies (e.g. PI, D&O, E&O, W&I)
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Insurance
(Next Generation Partners)The group at Loyens & Loeff has established capabilities handling the remit of contentious insurance matters and is well-regarded by clients for its ‘very strong performance in litigation’. Practice overseer Merel van Asch is experienced representing clients in litigation ranging from coverage disputes, to cases regarding the duty of care of intermediaries, in addition to her experience handling high-value arbitration cases. Duty of care claims are an area of focus of Rens Markus, and Rutger Noordermeer is considered a ‘sharp lawyer’. Kitty Lieverse departed the team in January 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Investment funds
- Construction
- Private equity
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Capital markets: equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Employment
- Environment and planning
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Insurance
- Transport
- Capital markets: debt
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Fintech
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: telecoms