Karel Daele

Area of specialisation

• Arbitration Agency (Representation) Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing Construction, Engineering Corporate Law / M&A Distribution, Franchising Energy and Natural Resources Finance and Banking Information and Communication Technologies Intellectual Property Investment / Public International Law Joint Ventures, Consortia, Cooperation Sales, Purchases Tort law

Bar admission

• Belgium
• United Kingdom

Experience with legal system

• Albania
• United Arab Emirates
• Belgium
• Central African Republic
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Cameroon
• Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
• Congo
• Germany
• Algeria
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• France
• United Kingdom
• Georgia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• British Indian Ocean Territory
• Israel
• Kenya
• Libya
• Saint Lucia
• Morocco
• North Macedonia
• Mauritius
• Nigeria
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Chad
• Tunisia
• Tanzania, United Republic of
• Uganda
• South Africa
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Professional experience

Karel Daele is a commercial and investor-state arbitration specialist (including ICSID; UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC and CEPANI) and acts both as counsel and as arbitrator. He splits his time between London and Brussels and has a particular focus on Africa disputes. He is also the author of the reference work on the challenge and disqualification of arbitrators. He is civil and common law qualified and accepts cases in Dutch, English and French.