Olivier Caprasse

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For over twenty years, Olivier Caprasse (born 1972, Belgium) has been actively involved in arbitration as arbitrator, counsel and academic.

He has seated as party-appointed arbitrator, chairman or sole arbitrator, in various parts of the world under various set of rules. He has seated in commercial as well as investment arbitrations, acting as arbitrator in domestic and in international arbitrations under classic arbitral proceedings as well as under expedited procedures or as emergency arbitrator.

The type of cases he handles covers a wide array of matters and sectors: corporate, SPA, M&A, joint venture, construction, insurance, energy, telecom, sales, commercial contracts, investments, sport.

Olivier Caprasse is a member of the ICC Court since 2016, the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and has been one of the experts for Belgium in the UNCITRAL working group II on arbitration and conciliation. He served as expert to the Minister of Justice before the Belgian Parliament in the 2013 reform of Belgian arbitration law. He was also a member of the working group to establish the 2020 CEPANI arbitration rules.

A member of the Brussels bar, he is also Professor at the Universities of Liège (ULiège) and Brussels (ULB), where he teaches arbitration, ADR and corporate law. He acted as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Liège from 2008 to 2012. He is the author of more than 140 publications most of them relating to arbitration.

Olivier Caprasse has a PhD from Liège University and an LLM from New York University.

He is fluent in English and French and has a good command of Dutch.