Bassiri, Niuscha

Partner, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels Member of the faculty of the LLM international arbitration program of the University of Miami School of Law

• 2002 Second State Examination
• Admission to the Cologne Bar
• 2002-2003 Associate with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, London
• 2003-2006 Consultant to arbitrator Robert Knutson, London
• 2006 Admission to Brussels Bar
• 2006-2011 Associate, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels
• 2012-present Partner, Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels

Arbitrator under the following rules: CEPANI, DIS, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, LCIA, NAI, SCC, SIAC, UNCITRAL and VIAC. Sectors include banking, construction, energy, entertainment, finance, food and beverage, highways, infrastructure, insurance, luxury and leisure, maritime equipment, metallurgical industry, mining, nuclear power plants, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, railways, real estate, satellites, solar power plants, steel, telecommunication, third-party funding, transportation, watches, wind parks and yachts and relating to diverse legal issues including corruption, distributorship, investment, joint ventures, licensing, patents, post-M&A, sales of goods and shareholdings.

• “Arbitration in Belgium – A Practitioner’s Guide”, Niuscha Bassiri and Maarten Draye (eds.), Kluwer International Law, 2015.
• International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Niuscha Bassiri, Maxi Scherer (eds.), Kluwer International Law, 2020
• Praxiskommentar ICC-SchO/DIS-SchO Kommentar, Nedden/Herzberg/Kopetzki, Otto Verlag (2. Auflage), 2022, Kommentierungen zu Artikel 6 ICC-SchO (mit Ulrich Kopetzki), Article 28 ICC-SchO (mit Benjamin Herzberg), Artikel 30 DIS-SchO
• ‘’Devil’s Advocate – Counterintuitive? – What, Why and Who Is the Devil’s Advocate in Default Proceedings?’’, Niuscha Bassiri, Default in International Arbitration, Reports from the CEPANI Colloquium, Wolters Kluwer, November 2022
• "Cross-border Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Rendered in ODR’’, Niuscha Bassiri & Pratyush Panjwani, Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution International Arbitration Review, Volume 8, Number 1, June 2021
• See full list of publications at: https://www.hvdb.com/niuscha-bassiri/

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• English
• German
• Farsi: fluent; Spanish and French: conversational.

• Editorial Board, Journal of International Arbitration
• IBA Investment Arbitration Sub-Committee
• IBA Rules and Guidelines Sub-Committee
• ICC Commission on Arbitration
• SIAC Users Council
• Inaugural Panel of Arbitrators of the BVI IAC.
• Advisory Board of CyberArb and the Indian Review of International Arbitration
• CEPANI Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
• Court Member of the Casablanca International Mediation And Arbitration Center (CIMAC)