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.
“He is outstanding in his profession. His technical knowledge and projections are extremely impressive and accurate, his responsiveness is excellent, his advice is highly respected and he is very pleasurable to work with.”
Profession
Advocaat, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2000
Languages
Dutch, English
Education
University of Utrecht
University College London
Columbia Law School
20 February 2024
23 August 2022
5 November 2021
17 October 2025
13 October 2025
28 June 2025
24 May 2024
24 April 2023