Bernard Hanotiau

Partner - Admitted in Brussels and Paris

bernard.hanotiau@hvdb.com T: +32 (0)2 290 39 09 F: +32 (0)2 290 39 39

Bernard Hanotiau is a member of the Brussels and Paris Bars.

Since 1978, Bernard Hanotiau has been actively involved in more than 500 international arbitration cases as party-appointed arbitrator, chairman, sole arbitrator, counsel and expert in all parts of the world. Mr. Hanotiau is professor emeritus of the law school of Louvain University (Belgium) and visiting professor at NUS University (Singapore). He is a member of the ICCA Advisory Board and of the Council of the ICC Institute and a member of the ICC International Arbitration Commission. He is also a former vice-president of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas), of the LCIA Court and of the DIAC Board (Dubai). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration of SIAC (Singapore), of the Advisory Board of the Seoul IDRC and of HKIAC (Hong Kong).

He is the author of Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty, Multicontract, Multi-issue (Kluwer, second edition 2020) and of more than 120 articles, most of them relating to international commercial law and arbitration. In March 2011, Mr. Hanotiau received the GAR “Arbitrator of the Year” award. In April 2016, he also received the Who’s Who Legal “Lawyer of the Year” for Arbitration award.