Werner Eyskens
Overview
Werner Eyskens is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s International Dispute Resolution Group and has almost 30 years of experience in commercial litigation, with a strong focus on arbitration.
Career & Education
- University of Namur, Bachelor of Law, 1990
- Catholic University of Leuven, Master of Law, 1993
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, LL.M., 1994
- Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Graduate degree, Air and Space Law, 1999
- Belgium
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Member, Board Directors, CEPANI
- Member, Advisory Board and Rules Standing Committee: The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation
- Co-chair, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, CEPANI
- Member, Group Structures Review Committee, CEPANI
- Former elected Member of the Brussels bar council
- Dutch
- French
- English
Werner Eyskens assists clients as counsel with substantial multinational arbitrations including contractual disputes, post-M&A proceedings and construction issues. He is lauded by sources for his ‘incredibly pleasant manner,’ and for being ‘an extremely effective advocate and cross-examiner.’
— Chambers Europe, 2022
Werner's Insights
Event | 09.10.24
Book Launch: “Collective Litigation in Belgium”
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the official presentation of the book “Collectief procederen in België - Les actions collectives en Belgique” by Emmanuel Plasschaert, Werner Eyskens, Jules Stuyck with contributions by Charlotte Stynen, Yaël Rager and Evelien Van Espen.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 06.18.24
Class Actions: The Amended Belgian Regime on Actions for Collective Redress
Client Alert | 22 min read | 05.31.24
2024: An Overview of New and Upcoming Belgian and EU Laws and Regulations – UPDATED in May 2024
Representative Matters
As an arbitrator:
- Sitting as sole arbitrator on a distributorship dispute (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Sitting as chairman in a post M&A claim in the real estate industry (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Sitting as sole arbitrator in a dispute on the termination of a consultancy agreement with an international public institution (ad hoc)
- Sitting as chairman in a post M&A claim in the insurance industry (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Sitting as chairman in a dispute on insurance pay out coverage in relation to infrastructure works (ad hoc)
As legal counsel:
- Representing a US oil & gas contractor on a module fabricator agreement with a Mexican subcontractor (ICC, New York law)
- Representing a European logistics group in CEPANI arbitration proceedings on alleged breaches of representations and warranties of a share purchase agreement with a private equity investment fund, including ensuring set aside proceedings.
- Representing a major Belgian infrastructure asset operator in an LCIA arbitration between its institutional joint venture shareholders regarding claims for breaches of confidentiality obligations under the various shareholder agreements.
- Representing a Luxembourg Owner in ICC and SIAC arbitration proceedings against a Korean shipyard and against Korean banks under related bank guarantees. These arbitration proceedings involved SIAC emergency arbitration proceedings and Seoul court proceedings.
- Representing an ABInbev group entity in a beverages distribution dispute (ICC, Belgian law)
- Representing a marine construction company in relation to the Panama Canal enlargement works (ICC, Belgian law)
- Representing a marine contractor on claims under charter party agreements (ASA, Swiss law)
- Representing a seller on claims for breaches of warranties under an SPA for shares in publicity and press distribution industry (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Representing a joint venture in relation to breaches under a construction agreement with a Korean shipyard and pay out claims under bank guarantees (SIAC and ICC, English law)
- Representing a marine contractor on marine construction works in the Philippines (ICSID)
- Representing a contractor on claims for breaches of warranties under an SPA for the sale of an on shore construction business (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Representing an off shore contractor on claims against a shipyard for breach of a construction agreement for a cable lay vessel (ICC, English law)
- Representing an airport infrastructure operator on claims for breaches of confidentiality obligations (LCIA, Belgian and English law)
- Representing PE investors as purchasers on claims for breaches of warranties under an SPA for the sale of a global auxiliary power unit business (CEPANI, Belgian law)
- Representing a PE investors as sellers on claims for breaches and warranties under SPA for sale of OTC pharmaceuticals business (CEPANI, Belgian law; this is the largest claim ever brought in CEPANI administered proceedings)
- Representing a listed marine brokerage business on the termination by an Argentine oil & gas company of a service and charter agreement of an liquefaction vessel (LCIA, including emergency arbitration proceedings, English law)
- Representing a west African port operator on defects in the construction of a break water structure (ICC, Benin law)
- Representing a multinational off shore operator on delays and construction incidents under a construction agreement with a Chinese shipyard and a German crane manufacturer (SIAC, English law)
Werner's Insights
Event | 09.10.24
Book Launch: “Collective Litigation in Belgium”
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the official presentation of the book “Collectief procederen in België - Les actions collectives en Belgique” by Emmanuel Plasschaert, Werner Eyskens, Jules Stuyck with contributions by Charlotte Stynen, Yaël Rager and Evelien Van Espen.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 06.18.24
Class Actions: The Amended Belgian Regime on Actions for Collective Redress
Client Alert | 22 min read | 05.31.24
2024: An Overview of New and Upcoming Belgian and EU Laws and Regulations – UPDATED in May 2024
Insights
Why the Belgium Supreme Court Reversed First Set Aside Decision of an Investment Treaty Award
|05.17.24
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Tien valkuilen en opportuniteiten in complexe aannemingsprojecten
|09.01.22
ie-net ingenieursvereniging Newsletter
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04.01.22
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
CEPANI Rules 2020 and NAI Rules 2022 – What you see is what you get?
|04.01.22
The CEPANI and NAI Approach Towards Topical Trends In Arbitration
Dispute resolution in a vacuum? Arbitration’s role in resolving space disputes
|01.01.22
A Year In Arbitration, Allen & Overy Review
Third party funding in arbitration: Belgian state of play in a comparative perspective
|01.01.19
Liber Amicorum Cepani, pp.121-136
Procedural interplay between investment arbitration and criminal proceedings in the context of corruption allegations
|01.01.18
b-Arbitra | Belgian Review of Arbitration, Volume 2018, Issue 1, pp. 7-40
"International construction projects, FIDIC contracts and arbitration procedures," Port Authority of Cotonou
|04.15.24
U.S. Law Firm Crowell & Moring Confirms Its Europe Expansion Through Its Brussel Office
|06.23.22
Leaders League
Crowell & Moring Adds Veteran Disputes Partner In Brussels From Allen & Overy
|06.22.22
The Global Legal Post
Werner's Insights
Event | 09.10.24
Book Launch: “Collective Litigation in Belgium”
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the official presentation of the book “Collectief procederen in België - Les actions collectives en Belgique” by Emmanuel Plasschaert, Werner Eyskens, Jules Stuyck with contributions by Charlotte Stynen, Yaël Rager and Evelien Van Espen.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 06.18.24
Class Actions: The Amended Belgian Regime on Actions for Collective Redress
Client Alert | 22 min read | 05.31.24
2024: An Overview of New and Upcoming Belgian and EU Laws and Regulations – UPDATED in May 2024