Marnix Leijten
Managing Partner
- Office locationAmsterdam
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- ProfessionAdvocaat, admitted to the Bar in 1997
- ExpertiseArbitration, Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Litigation
- LanguagesDutch, English, French
- EducationUniversity of Leiden, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Oxford University and Magdalen College
Summary
As Managing Partner, Marnix makes up the Management Board, together with Anja Mutsaers (Practice Partner) and Dorothee van Vredenburch (Executive Partner).
Prior to taking up leadership of the firm in January 2020, Marnix was head of the firm’s Arbitration practice. He has specialised in international arbitration for over 23 years and acted as trusted adviser to clients for all their arbitration and litigation needs, across the globe.
Marnix has been a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration since 2006, and has been Vice-President of the ICC Court since 2015. He is also co-chair of the ICC Commission’s Task Force on Emergency Arbitration. He is an active member of the ICC’s Institute of World Business Law, the ICC’s Commission on Arbitration, ICCA and of the IBA Arbitration Committee.
Recent work
De Brauw secures lifting of EUR 22 billion asset freeze for the National Bank of Kazakhstan
Dispute Albert Heijn and 250 franchisees about benefit sharing under franchise contracts
GasTerra wins EUR 2 billion price review arbitration against Italian energy major Eni
De Brauw advises and represents NAM (Shell/Exxon) in events surrounding earthquakes
Ahold reaches agreement in principle to settle Waterbury class action in the United States
China Huaneng Group acquires 50% in InterGen from GMR Infrastructure