Overview
Bruno is an associate in our Belgian Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations practice. He was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2021.
Bruno specialises in domestic and cross-border litigation and arbitration. His areas of expertise include regulated markets (like the energy sector), ESG, business & human rights, climate change litigation and business crimes, including white-collar crimes and international economic sanctions.
Bruno is also a teaching assistant and an affiliated researcher of the UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles.
Work highlights
Bruno has worked on a wide range of disputes. Those that can be disclosed include:
- putting in place a tracker of recent developments in ESG at the request of a financial institution and regularly monitoring evolutions thereof
- assisting electricity and gas distribution system operators, in challenging new methodologies for the calculation of the energy distribution tariffs imposed by regulators
- representing nuclear energy producers in various legal proceedings before the Constitutional Court and other courts for breach of the fundamental rights to property and non-discrimination
- advising a multinational company with internal investigations across several jurisdictions
- assisting multiple financial institutions and multinational companies navigate through the international economic sanctions imposed by the EU on third-countries (including Russia)
- defending an investment management firm against damages claims based on alleged wrongful fulfilment of discretionary management obligations
Professional experience
Bruno has been an associate in the Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations and a teaching assistant at the University Saint-Louis – Brussels (USL-B) since 2021. He is also an affiliated researcher of the “CIRC” (Interdisciplinary Centre for Constitutional Research), the public law research group of the University Saint-Louis – Brussels.
Education and qualifications
Bruno holds two Master of Law Degrees, one from the KU Leuven (2019-2020) and the other from Universität Zürich (2020-2021). He obtained his Bachelor of Law degree from the University Saint-Louis – Brussels (2016-2019; Law Faculty Prize “Prix du Bac”).
Bruno fluently speaks French, English and Portuguese.
