Eric E. Van Loon, Esq. brings years of experience to every resolution. A full-time dispute resolution professional since 1989, he has more than 20,000 hours of experience in 42 states and eight countries as a mediator, arbitrator, speaker, and trainer specializing in complex, multi-party, high-stakes disputes and is listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Van Loon has mediated and arbitrated many high-profile matters including the largest electric rate increase in Ohio history, an athletic conference expulsion over bowl game participation, a 60,000-acre New York Indian land claim, a 28-municipality dispute with a New England power plant operator, and the dispute preventing Cleveland's Jacobs Field from being built. He also chaired the three-member U.S. Copyright Office panel, which arbitrated the first royalty rates for internet music streaming.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

• Arbitration: Solo arbitrator in eight-figure multinational oil company contract dispute; international company termination of U.S. subsidiary CEO. Chaired NFL stadium construction claims panel, multi-hospital claims against major insurer. Panel member in energy company software system claim, joint venture synfuel tax credits allocation, eight-figure environmental cost remediation
• Business Dissolution: Including an 18-company industrial group with high nine-figure annual sales and a bitter federal court action alleging RICO violations
• Class Actions: Consumer protection, pharmaceutical, consent decree implementation, toxic tort
• Commercial: Contract, fraud, reps/warranty, Lanham Act; multiple industries: accounting, energy, entertainment, financial, health, hotel, insurance, manufacturing, securities
• Construction: Contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, insurance; malls, NFL stadium, highway, industrial plants, mixed-use development, residential
• Employment: Executive/professional terminations (national and international), exit packages, proprietary data, non-competes, whistle-blowing, employee child abuse
• Energy: Fuel supply agreements, contaminated property, construction, industry restructuring
• Entertainment: Film copyright/distribution rights, television program production, Grammy-winner management dispute, music royalties, Hollywood Reporter “power mediator”
• Environmental: State/federal Superfund sites, remediation cost allocation, water supply and residential contamination, RCRA enforcement, Brownfield development, oil refinery remediation
• Franchise/Dealer/Manufacturer: Encroachment, termination, chargebacks; automotive, fast food, financial services, health care, hotel, multinational as well as U.S. 
• Government: Local/state/federal, policy consensus, enforcement, rate-setting, deregulation, negotiated-rulemaking, regulatory entity in receivership, municipality regionalization 
• Health Care: Hospital-vendor disputes, nursing service, medical devices, insurance processing
• Insurance: Tort/property/professional coverage, applicability, multi-carriers, reinsurance; workers comp 
• Intellectual Property: Trade secret: accounting/hospital software; Patent: medical device, consumer products; Trademark: professional athletes, dot-com companies; Copyright; Music Royalties
• Professional Liability: Accounting financial misstatement, statute of limitations, conflict of interest, legal malpractice, securities dealer
• Real Estate: Developer workout, commercial lease, land use, zoning, facility siting, regulation
• Securities: Including broker-investor, investment warranties/representations, accountings
• Sports: Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field, Conference USA bowl participation, Detroit Lions Ford Field, NCAA Indian logo/nickname enforcement, MVP.com
• Technology: Software, hardware, information, internet, medical, accounting, health care device, state-of-the-art weapons system
• Tribal: Land claim, gaming proceeds and management, tribal governance, federal trust mismanagement
• Available to resolve disputes remotely through a number of videoconferencing options

Representative Matters

• Internet software system entrepreneur v. investor
• $80 MM Superfund remediation allocation
• Massachusetts electric industry restructuring
• Multi-site health organization software system
• State-of-the-art military weapons system contract
• Prestigious television series v. featured personality
• Post-acquisition reps and warranties/accountings
• Thirty-party, 60-witness, 1000-exhibit arbitration
• Six-billion-dollar Safe Drinking Water regulation
• Developer-major tenant construction disputes
• Consumer class action settlement/remedy
• London Underwriter claims on a huge project

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

• Recognized internationally by Who's Who Legal: Mediation, 2018
• Best Lawyers in America, 2014-2024
• Distinguished Fellow, International Association of Mediators
• Named "Entertainment Industry Power Mediator" by Hollywood Reporter Esquire
• Elected Town Moderator, Concord, MA
• Member: ABA Sections on Dispute Resolution, International Law; Association for Conflict Resolution; FDIC, USEPA Superfund Pilot Program, and Library of Congress Copyright Arbitration Royalty panels
• Board Member: MA Bar Foundation, Schweitzer Fellowship, Jericho Road Project
• Lecturer on ADR at national/international forums: ABA, American Corporate Counsel Association, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, International Bar Association, World Economic Forum Mid-East North African Qatar Summit, Nigerian International Insurance Summit keynote, and in Canada, Hong Kong, Japan; published in ABA Dispute Resolution magazine

Background and Education

• Massachusetts Undersecretary, Economic Affairs; Assistant Secretary, Environmental Affairs
• Seven-year federal litigation legal practice
• J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1971
• M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1968
• A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967