Attorney at law

Merel van Bunge

Specialisation

Merel works as an attorney at law and is a member of the practice group IP/IT. She concentrates especially on commercial contracts and IT & consumer rights issues.

Merel has experience in drafting, advising, and litigating on all kinds of different commercial contracts, such as general purchase and sales conditions, more complex purchase agreements, distribution agreements and agency agreements. In addition, she advises in particular on IT agreements and in the field of e-commerce/consumer law. Merel also has experience in civil litigation before the state courts as well as experience in arbitration proceedings before the NAI (Netherlands Arbitration Institute) and NOFOTA (the Netherlands Oils, Fats and Oilseeds Trade Association). Merel has also acted as secretary in arbitration proceedings at the NAI and the SGOA (foundation for the Settlement of Automation Disputes).

Background

Merel completed her master’s degree in civil law at Leiden University in 2019. During her studies, she spent a semester studying at Trinity College Dublin, volunteered in a legal advice center, was active as a board member of a student association and completed several internships in the legal profession. Merel joined Ploum in June 2020 and has worked as a lawyer since July 2020.

Memberships

  • Dutch Arbitration Association
  • Association for Young Litigation Lawyers
  • Netherlands Association of Information Technology and Law

The Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister)

Merel van Bunge has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

  • Civil procedural law (burgerlijk procesrecht), sub legal practice area arbitration, sub legal practice area seizure and enforcement law (beslag en executierecht), sub legal practice area ligitation;
  • Law of obligations (verbintenissenrecht), sub legal practice area agency (agentuur), sub legal practice area distribution right (distributierecht).

Based on this registration, Merel van Bunge is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.

Publications

  • Mr. S.E. Poutsma en mr. M.E.J. van Bunge, ‘Verslag van de NAI 2022 Annual General Meeting – 8 september 2022’, TvA 2022/103