Marco Schoups

Area of specialisation

• Arbitration Administrative Law Construction, Engineering Environment Mediation Real Estate Sales, Purchases Tort law

Bar admission

• Belgium

Experience with legal system

• Belgium
• France
• United Kingdom
• Netherlands

Professional experience

Marco Schoups is a Partner at Schoups. He obtained his law degree magna cum laude in 1986 at the KU Leuven. He is a lawyer at the Bar of the province of Antwerp and the Bar of Brussels.
Marco has thirty-five years of experience in assisting companies with proceedings and arbitration, as well as with contract work, providing advice and conducting negotiations. He regularly publishes and gives lectures as well as in-house trainings. Since August 2021, he has been recognised as a mediator in civil and corporate matters.
Marco Schoups was President of the Bar Association of the Bar of the province of Antwerp from 2018 – 2020.
Since the academic year 2020-2021 Marco teaches the practical course “Construction Law” at the KU Leuven.
He is listed with Legal 500 and Chambers as Leading Individual in the category Real Estate and Construction.
Marco has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cepani asbl, The Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, since 2021. He is vice-president of the NGO Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and a member of the Permanent Bureau of the Federal Mediation Commission since 2024.