Biography

Educational/ Current position / Professional Experience

Current position

Partner, Litigation and Arbitration, CMS De Backer Luxembourg
Previously: partner at Nauta Dutilh

Education

• 2005 LLM in European community litigation, specialisation in matters related to competition law and state aids
• 2005 Jointly delivered by Luxembourg and Nancy/Strasbourg universities
• 2004 Master Degree in private law litigation, specialisation in criminal law, Toulouse University
• 2003 Master Degree in European law, The Hague University (Haagse Hogeschool)

Bar Admission

• 2014 Admitted to the French Bar (non-practising)
• 2011 Admitted as a solicitor to the Senior courts of England and Wales (non-practising)
• 2006 Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar

Professional memberships

Member of the CFA (Comité Français de l’Arbitrage) since 2013

Arbitration Experience

• Involved as counsel in about a dozen of significant international commercial arbitration disputes, mostly through ICC arbitration rules, also in close cooperation with the global Benelux Arbitration Group of NautaDutilh .
  Mostly corporate / finance related disputes, as well as investment, construction and oil and gas matters.
• Extensive experience in the field of enforcement of arbitral awards.

Publications and Speaking Engagements

• Various domestic training/conferences on commercial litigation & arbitration (Luxembourg & international – IBA)
• Active member of the Luxembourg Think tank for arbitration
• Board member of the LAA
• Part of the five members drafting committee on the new Luxembourg act on arbitration (adopted in 2023)