Biography

Educational/ Current position / Professional Experience

Education:

• CEPANI arbitration academy, first level (Nov.-Dec. 2023)  and expert level (Nov. 2024 – ongoing)
• LL.M. candidate, International Legal Studies, New York University School of Law (NYU) (2013 – 2014)
• Exchange program, Lumsa Università, Rome, Italy (Jan. -June 2013)
• Master’s degree in Law, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (2011 – 2013) – magna cum laude
• Bachelor’s degree in law, Université de Namur (2008 – 2011) – magna cum laude.

Current position:

Senior Associate in the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution team in Fieldfisher’s Brussels office.

Professional experience:

• Fieldfisher LLP, Brussels (since November 2022)
  • Senior Associate in the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice
  • Member of the Africa group’s practice
• Liedekerke, Brussels (2019 – 2022)
  • Associate then Senior Associate in the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice
  • Member of the Africa Practice
• Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) (2018 – 2019)
  • Research and teaching assistant in Public international Law and EU Law
  • Member of the Charles De Visscher Center for International and European Law
• Clifford Chance, Brussels (2014 – 2017)
  • Associate in the dispute resolution and corporate departments
  • Secondment in the dispute resolution team at Clifford Chance Paris
• New York University (NYU), New York (2014)
  • Research Assistant in EU Law
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels (2012)
  • Summer Associate
• Assemblée Nationale de France, Paris (2011)
  • Summer intern
• Conseil Constitutionnel de France, Paris (2011)
  • Summer intern

Bar Admission:

• Brussels’ bar, 2014

Professional memberships:

• Member of the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI);
• Member of the CEPANI under 40;
• Member of Fieldfisher’s Africa Group practice;
• Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) Fellow (2013-2014); and
• Fernand Lazard Foundation Grantee (2013-2014).

Arbitration Experience

As arbitrator: Entry level.

As Secretary to the Arbitral Tribunal: Mid-level – domestic and international arbitration, under ICC and CEPANI’s rules; types: contract law, banking sector, chemicals, sports sector, construction, and M&A; applicable law: Belgian

As Counsel: Mid-level – domestic and international arbitration, under ICC Rules; types: construction/windfarms, contract law, mining, and M&A; Applicable law: Belgian law, OHADA and Democratic Republic of Congo; Seats: Switzerland, Belgium and France.

Arbitration-related proceedings: setting-aside proceedings before Belgian courts of an investor-state UNCITRAL arbitral award; coordinating multijurisdictional proceedings relating to the resisting enforcement of an Energy Charter Treaty arbitral award worth approx. 530 million USD. In Belgium, three enforcement proceedings were launched: (i) opposition to the exequatur of the Award on the basis that it was obtained by fraud; and (ii) opposition to the conservatory and (iii) executory garnishments.

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Publications :

• “Arrêt “Achmea”: une décision de principe?”, n°251, Journal de Droit Européen, pp. 266-269, 2018;
• « Jurisprudence belge relative au droit international public (2012-2017) », n°01, Revue Belge de Droit International, pp. 201-268, 2018 (co-authors: P. d’Argent, A. de Vaucleroy, F. Dopagne).

Speaking engagements:

Conference on commercial lease, title of the presentation: « Le règlement des litiges en matière de baux commerciaux par la voie de l’arbitrage », organised by Die Keure-La Charte, law review article still to be published, co-author: M. Berlingin, date: September 2024.

Languages

• French: native
• English: fluent
• Dutch: knowledge
• Italian: knowledge