Willem Meuwissen is an expert negotiator, mediator and litigator in commercial corporate and real estate law, fluent in Dutch, French, English and German. He is a permanent member of the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission and a member of the Flemish Bar Association ADR Commission.

Willem Meuwissen (1956) studied at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven, where he obtained a LLM Cum Laude. In 1980, he was called to the Bar and trained by the famous maritime attorney Robert Wijffels Esq.

Together with Theo De Beir he founded AGREMENTOR, a law firm specialising in interparty conflict resolution and litigation, with offices in Antwerp and Brussels and working for many clients in Belgium, Europe and worldwide.

He is an expert in international commodity arbitration (RUCIP) and is accredited as a mediator by the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission, bMediation, VOBA (the Flemish Organisation for Mediation and Arbitration) and the Association for International Arbitration.

He is the author of several publications in commercial law and mediation and he teaches negotiation and mediation at the bMediation accredited mediators course, at the AIA European Mediation Training for Practitioners of Justice, at the Belgian Magistrates Training Institute (IGO) and at the Diplomatic Academy of the University of Brussels where he teaches “Internationall Economic Negotiation and Dispute Resolution”.

Willem Meuwissen is regularly appointed as a mediator, by both the courts and private parties in important commercial and labour disputes.