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Herman Verbist

Herman Verbist is a lawyer at the bars of Ghent and Brussels, and head of the arbitration department with Everest Attorneys.

 

Since more than 30 years, his activity focuses primarily on arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

 

He has acted in more than 80 national and international arbitrations as counsel, sole arbitrator, chairman of the arbitral tribunal, co-arbitrator, or expert (CEPANI, ICC, CAS, Permanent Court of Arbitration, European Court of Arbitration, Danish Institute of Arbitration, Polish Court of Arbitration, ad hoc) and has also acted as mediator in more than 20 national and international mediations (appointments by Belgian Courts, WIPO, Energy Community, ad hoc) and as adjudicator.

 

Herman Verbist is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of numerous international arbitration associations and registered as arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of several arbitration institutions worldwide, including CAS, WIPO, NAI, CAfA, VIAC, ICDR, HKIAC, SIAC, THAC, AIAC, KCAB, ICDR, JCAA.

 

He is also an accredited mediator (Belgian Federal Mediation Commission) and is registered on the “Panel of Conciliators” of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Washington D.C., and also registered on the Energy Community Dispute Resolution Panel of Mediators, Vienna, Austria.

 

He is co-chairman of FICA (Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration), an international think tank of arbitrators and mediators, United Kingdom, and attends the sessions of Working Group II (Dispute Resolution) of UNCITRAL in New York and Vienna.

 

He is founder and member of the Executive Committee of the European Dispute Resolution Society, an international think tank of academics, practitioners and policy-makers for debates on topical discussions and developments related to dispute resolution in, with and by the European Union.

 

He obtained his Master’s degree in law at the University of Leuven, and has completed additional law studies in Germany (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen) and in the United Kingdom (King’s College, University of London). He obtained a doctorate in law at the University of Ghent.

 

He worked for eight years as counsel at the secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris. He has been president of the arbitrators of the Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport for five years.

 

For 17 years, he was a visiting professor for the course on international commercial arbitration at the University of Ghent. Since 2020, he has been a professor for the course ‘Case Study Investment Mediation’ at the Europa Institute of the University of Saarland.

 

He has authored and co-authored several books and articles on arbitration and and alternative dispute resolution.

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