About Mariëlle
Mariëlle is partner Commercial Contracts & Litigation at La Gro. Mariëlle has extensive experience as an attorney at law in (international) litigation, commercial contracts and compliance. Due to her experience both at large and medium-sized law firms and in the corporate world (as an (international) in-house counsel at Unilever and TNO), she has in-depth knowledge of a broad range of commercial contracts and liability issues.
Mariëlle handles cases involving commercial contracts, liability, legal policy, risk management and (internal) compliance investigations. Her clients are in the food and life sciences sector, among others, and her cases often have technical or financial aspects.
Expertise
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial contracts
- Compliance
- Risk management
Qualifications and experience
- 2014, Grotius Specialisation Programme “Company and Liability”
- 2012, Mediation Course, Dialogue
- Member of the Dutch Association for Procedural Law
- Member of the Association for Civil Law
- Member of the Association for Corporate Litigation
- Arbiter, ad hoc and at the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI)
- Lecturer at the Professional Education Programme for In-house Counsel
- Member of the Disciplinary Court for attorneys, The Hague
Recent cases
As litigation specialist, Mariëlle has extensive experience in the areas of:
- preventing and resolving commercial disputes, for example resulting from a failed ICT project, a disagreement in a collaboration or the refusal by an insurance company to compensate damage claimed;
- alternative means of dispute resolution, such as mediation, arbitration or binding advice; and
- internal fraud investigations.
