Overview
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.
Experience
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.
Beyond the Office
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.

