Mick Gerrits

International litigation and arbitration

Mick is a lawyer at Ysquare and specialises in international litigation and arbitration. He has over ten years of experience handling international disputes across a broad range of sectors, including consumer and retail, energy and natural resources, and technology and media. Mick has acted for both sovereign states and investors in investor-state disputes, including setting aside and enforcement proceedings and related attachment proceedings. He has also acted for central banks, large corporates and high-net-worth individuals in commercial litigation and arbitration under various institutional rules and governing laws.

Mick's recent work includes representing:

Advising a Central Asian country in its defense against the enforcement of a USD 500 million SCC investment arbitration award on account of fraud in respect of a purported investment in the energy sector

Representing Ukrainian companies in setting aside proceedings before the courts of The Hague regarding multi-billion-dollar disputes with the Russian Federation over the nationalisation of various investments in the energy and banking sectors located in Crimea.

Representing the national bank of a Central Asian country in disputes before the Dutch, Belgian and Swedish courts arising from an illegal attachment of its assets worth over USD 22 billion