Nicolas Vermeulen

Nicolas advises and represents clients across a wide variety of sectors in domestic and cross-border litigation, and national and international arbitration, including (extra-) contractual disputes.

Work Highlights

Nicolas has acted in a wide range of disputes. Those that can be disclosed include:

• representing insurance companies in post-M&A disputes, also involving related commercial litigation;
• representing an international mining company in cross border litigation with a major wholesale customer;
• assisting a Belgian listed company in international arbitration proceedings and, subsequently, in negotiating and closing a cross border settlement agreement;
• representing an international fund manager in a major post-transaction dispute;
• representing a leasing company as civil claimant in criminal proceedings concerning a multi-million-euro fraud in the context of renewable energy projects.

Nicolas joined the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Group in Brussels in 2021.

For the judicial year 2023-2024, Nicolas was elected representative of the trainee lawyers of the Dutch-speaking Brussels Bar Association.

He was re-elected in this role for the judicial year 2024-2025.

Nicolas studied at Ghent University and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Corporate and Commercial Law from The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nicolas speaks Dutch, French and English.

M. SCHELKENS en N. VERMEULEN, “Over de verplichting van de burgerlijke rechter om ambtshalve bewijsregels op te werpen”, RDC-TBH 2022, nr. 7, 933-942

N. VERMEULEN, “Commentaar bij artikel 855 Ger.W. – Verplichting om de bevoegde rechter aan te wijzen” in X., Artikelsgewijze commentaar Gerechtelijk recht, Mechelen, Kluwer, 2025, afl. 134, 227-233