GBS Disputes

Joost is part of the team advising and/or representing:

• Heirs to the Sultan of Sulu in proceedings initiated in the Netherlands to recognize and enforce a USD 15 billion award rendered in an ad hoc arbitration brought by our clients.
• An international joint venture and an African energy company, Respondents in an ICC arbitration in Geneva brought by North Asian contractors. The dispute relates to a settlement agreement entered into following a dispute arising from an EPC contract for the construction of a USD 3 billion fertilizer plant in an African State. The law of the African State applies.

Joost’s prior experience includes advising and/or representing:

• A South American State in an annulment procedure of an investment arbitration award before the Court of The Hague.
• A real estate company in arbitral proceedings under Dutch law before the ICC.
• An individual in a cross-border M&A dispute before the LCIA and subsequently the court of Amsterdam.

Education

• University of Leiden, LL.M in Corporate Law
• University of Sydney, LL.M in International Law
• University of Amsterdam, Bachelor of Law

Admissions & Courts

• Amsterdam

Languages

• Dutch
• English
• German

Nationality

• Dutch

• Coach, Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court, University of Amsterdam

• “Let’s Go Dutch! Exploring the Ease of Recognition and Enforcement in Dutch Law – Arbitral Awards vs. Foreign Judgments,” Kluwer Arbitration Blog (September 2023)
• “Proving your nationality; as easy as it seems?,” 84 Arbitration – The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management 288 (2018)
• “A Future in ISDS – A Good Idea or Not?,” 82 Arbitration – The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management 363 (2016)