It is well known that it costs a lot to litigate or arbitrate. In commercial disputes, both parties usually spend several hundreds of euros on their lawyers and in addition, they also pay high fees for arbitrators to handle and resolve the dispute. For disputes that are less than EUR 0.5-1 million, the costs of resolving the dispute can easily exceed the disputed value. Instead of resolving the dispute on legal grounds, many companies choose to find a settlement instead. Then they can avoid high costs to resolve the dispute and still get some compensation/avoid paying everything that they would have had to pay if they lost the dispute. The disadvantage of settlements is that the parties who are right under the agreement do not have the opportunity to rely on the agreement when faced with the risk of still losing a dispute/having to spend disproportionately much time to win. There is sometimes an over-belief about the rights that the agreement gives a party when in practice very few companies find it in their interest to enforce their agreements in the event of a dispute.