Area of specialisation
Bar admission
Experience with legal system
Professional experience
Herman Verbist is a lawyer at the Bars of Ghent and Brussels. He has worked as counsel at the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris (1988-1996). He has taught, as a visiting professor, the course on international commercial arbitration at the University of Ghent (1996-2013). Since 2020, he lectures the course “Case Study Investment Mediation” at the Europa-Institut of Saarland University in Germany.He has acted in more than 80 national and international arbitrations as counsel, sole arbitrator, chairman of the arbitral tribunal, co-arbitrator, or expert (CEPANI, ICC, CAS, Permanent Court of Arbitration, European Court of Arbitration, Danish Institute of Arbitration, Polish Court of Arbitration, ad hoc) and has also acted as mediator in more than 20 national and international mediations (appointments by Belgian Courts, WIPO, Energy Community, ad hoc) and as adjudicator.
Herman Verbist is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of numerous international arbitration associations and registered as arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of several arbitration institutions worldwide, including CAS, WIPO, NAI, CAfA, VIAC, ICDR, HKIAC, SIAC, THAC, AIAC, KCAB. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (since 1996) and has been a member of the Board of CEPANI (2001-2023). He was president of the arbitrators of the Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport (2016-2020). He is co-chairman of FICA (Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration) (since 2022).
He is an accredited mediator (Belgian Federal Mediation Commission, since 2008) and is registered on the ICSID “Panel of Conciliators” (since 2016).
He is author or co-author of more than 200 articles in numerous Belgian and foreign legal periodicals and of more than 25 books in the field of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.