Area of specialisation
Bar admission
Experience with legal system
Professional experience
Gaëtan is a founding partner of Three Crowns and has over 20 years of experience serving as advocate or arbitrator in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Experience includes:• Successfully defending the Sultanate of Oman against a US$200 million claim in connection with an investment treaty dispute relating to an oil and gas engineering and construction contract
• Reducing a US$430 million claim against an Asian national oil company to $10 in nominal damages in an ICC arbitration arising from the client’s withdrawal from a production sharing contract in Central Asia
• Securing a US$175 million damages award including interest for a Trafigura subsidiary in an UNCITRAL arbitration against the Government of Ghana arising from a power purchase agreement
• Representing a European wind farm manufacturer in an ICC arbitration relating to a cross-licensing agreement for wind turbine patents
• Securing a $150 million award for an Asian national oil company in an ICC arbitration arising from a production sharing agreement with another Asian national oil company, while defeating a $140 million counterclaim in the same proceeding
• Representing an Asian national oil company in a US$490 million ICC arbitration arising from a gas transportation agreement
• Securing a favourable award for a European renewable energy fund in an investment treaty arbitration against the Kingdom of Spain.
Gaëtan is a past Senior Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association – a leading standard-setter for the practice of international arbitration. He is a member of the SIAC Court of Arbitration and was appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the Kingdom of Belgium. Before entering private practice, he served as a Legal Advisor at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where he advised dispute settlement panels adjudicating disputes between sovereigns across a range of industry sectors.