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Gaëtan Verhoosel KC
Work Department
International Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration
Position
Gaëtan is a founding partner of Three Crowns. He has over 20 years of experience serving as advocate or arbitrator in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.
Career
Before entering private practice, he served as a Legal Advisor at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where he advised dispute settlement panels adjudicating disputes between sovereigns across a range of industry sectors.
Languages
English, Spanish, Dutch, French
Memberships
Gaëtan is a past Senior Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association – a leading standard-setter for the practice of international arbitration. He is a member of the SIAC Court of Arbitration and was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Kingdom of Belgium. He teaches at King’s College School of Law in London and Columbia Law School in New York.
Education
Columbia Law School, J.S.D., 2001 – New York
Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow
Columbia Law School, LL.M., 2000 – New York
Herman Finkelstein Fellow
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Graduate Diploma in International Relations, 1997 – Bologna
Catholic University of Leuven, Lic. Jur., 1996 – Leuven
magna cum laude
University of Antwerp, Cand. Jur., 1993 – Antwerp
cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > International arbitration
(Leading individuals)London > Dispute resolution > Public international law
Three Crowns LLP‘s esteemed track record includes representing both states and corporations in business-critical investor-state disputes, including a sizeable number of treaty cases. The London group is also increasingly active in state-to-state cases and related disputes that feature challenging international law points. Constantine Partasides KC‘s recent experience comprises the attainment of mega-value awards, and has a growing arbitration-related litigation practice; and Gaëtan Verhoosel acts in high-value treaty arbitrations across all continents, in relation to the power, oil and gas, renewables, banking and infrastructure sectors. Other key practitioners are Middle Eastern and African disputes expert Reza Mohtashami KC; Carmen Martinez Lopez, who routinely acts in heavyweight Latin American investor-state cases; investor-state arbitration specialist Manish Aggarwal; and Leilah Bruton, who acts in treaty disputes. Counsel Hamid Abdulkareem leads the firm’s African practice, while senior associate Farouk El-Hosseny‘s practice incorporates telecoms and oil and gas sector-related investor-state claims.