De Meulemeester & De Brabandere is aware of the business reality its clients daily deal with, and thus knows that arbitration is not always in the interests of clients. Hence, De Meulemeester & De Brabandere offers its services to negotiate on behalf of its clients. The partners are familiar with carrying out negotiations and have acquired through time the necessary qualities and skills to perform successful negotiations, such as patience, discretion and attention to the clients’ expectations and needs in terms i.a. of consequences for future relationship with the opposite party or third parties.

The partner Dirk De Meulemeester is expert in this field on a practical point of view, but also on the theoretical level. He has been teaching a course on negotiations and mediation for several years at Ghent University and Leiden University.