Olivier van der Haegen
Partner - Attorney at Law
Olivier van der Haegen, attorney at law, is Partner and member of the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Brussels office. He is experienced in dispute resolution, and focuses on international arbitration. He is also a member of the Corporate Investigations, Compliance & Defence and of the France Region Teams.
Brussels
French, English, Dutch
Olivier regularly acts as counsel in international arbitration proceedings, either ad hoc or under various institutional rules. He also assists clients in court proceedings relating to setting aside, recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards or foreign judgments (including in investment treaty cases and against Sovereigns).
Aside from his extensive arbitration practice, Olivier handles litigations (including white-collar crime defence) before Belgian courts in the real estate, construction, energy and media industries.
Olivier also sits as an arbitrator under the ICC or Cepani Rules.
His recent activities include the representation of:
• Foreign investors in enforcement proceedings of investment-treaty awards (UNCITRAL and ICSID) against sovereign States;
• Two real estate developers in post-M&A Cepani arbitrations (seats in Brussels and Luxembourg);
• A credit insurance company and a world leading energy company in ICC arbitration against an African employer (seat in Paris);
• A Belgian leading infrastructures company acting as contractor in ICC arbitration against a Spanish employer (seat in Paris);
• A publisher and media company in civil and criminal proceedings relating to a fraud on the art market.
Finally, Olivier is a member of the editorial board (dispute resolution section) of one of Belgium's leading commercial law journals (RDC - Revue de Droit Commercial / TBH - Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht).
Contributions
Memberships
Brussels Bar (Ordre Français des Avocats), 2010
Cepani (the Belgian arbitration institution)
International Arbitration Insititute (IAI)
Swiss Arbitration Insititution (ASA)
RDC - TBH (Belgian commercial law journal - member of the editorial board)
Qualifications
LL.M. University of Chicago (USA), 2010
LL.M, EU law, College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), 2009
Master in Law, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), 2008
Bachelor in Law, Université Saint-Louis (Belgium), 2005
Publications
• VAN DER HAEGEN O., & DEGROOFF J., Le contrôle de la contrariété d'une sentence arbitrale à l'ordre public (note sous Cass., 12 avril 2024, C.22.0348.F), b-Arbitra, 2024/2, 464-491.
• VAN DER HAEGEN, O., BOULARBAH, H., MALLIEN, A. (2024). Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards 2022, Global Arbitration Review, GAR Insight.
• van der Haegen, O., Cuvelier, F. (2021). Les clauses d’arbitrage et de médiation : questions choisies. Modes amiables de règlement des conflits/Minnelijke geschillenoplossing. Journal des juges de paix, Die Keure La Charte (Dossier 32), 1-132.
• van der Haegen, O., Van den Bossche, M.-C. (2021). Part III / Chapter 16 : Procedural issues: annulment, recognition and enforcement of investment treaty awards (ICSID and non-ICSID). International Arbitration and EU Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 360 – 390.
Olivier van der Haegen
Partner - Attorney at Law
olivier.van.der.haegen@loyensloeff.com
Brussels
French, English, Dutch
<p>Olivier van der Haegen, attorney at law, is Partner and member of the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Brussels office. He is experienced in dispute resolution, and focuses on international arbitration. He is also a member of the Corporate Investigations, Compliance & Defence and of the France Region Teams.</p>
Olivier regularly acts as counsel in international arbitration proceedings, either ad hoc or under various institutional rules. He also assists clients in court proceedings relating to setting aside, recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards or foreign judgments (including in investment treaty cases and against Sovereigns).
Aside from his extensive arbitration practice, Olivier handles litigations (including white-collar crime defence) before Belgian courts in the real estate, construction, energy and media industries.
Olivier also sits as an arbitrator under the ICC or Cepani Rules.
His recent activities include the representation of:
• Foreign investors in enforcement proceedings of investment-treaty awards (UNCITRAL and ICSID) against sovereign States;
• Two real estate developers in post-M&A Cepani arbitrations (seats in Brussels and Luxembourg);
• A credit insurance company and a world leading energy company in ICC arbitration against an African employer (seat in Paris);
• A Belgian leading infrastructures company acting as contractor in ICC arbitration against a Spanish employer (seat in Paris);
• A publisher and media company in civil and criminal proceedings relating to a fraud on the art market.
Finally, Olivier is a member of the editorial board (dispute resolution section) of one of Belgium's leading commercial law journals (RDC - Revue de Droit Commercial / TBH - Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht).