The firm Tossens Goldman Gonne has developed a special competence in arbitration.

Jean-François Tossens has a long experience in the practice and law of national and international arbitration. He has acted as a counsel or arbitrator in almost a hundred proceedings or requests for opinions. He has been ranked by the Chambers legal guide “Band 2″ in Arbitration, and as ” Global Leader” in International Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal.

Sophie Goldman has also been acting as a lead counsel and as arbitrator in ICC and CEPANI proceedings for several years. Sophie has been ranked as “Up and Coming” in Arbitration by the Chambers legal guide in Arbitration, and recognized as a “Global Leader” in International Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal.

René Gonne has represented states as well as public and private Belgian and international companies as counsel in more than 30 national and international arbitrations.

• Representing a Belgian biotechnology company in a complex international dispute with a former US partner, involving parallel proceedings before several courts of European states and an ICC arbitration; the American company alleged that the Belgian company breached partnership provisions, intellectual property rights and also misappropriated business secrets
• Representing a leading French group in the field of air cargo in an ICC arbitration procedure which concerned the dismissal of the manager of an affiliated company and the breach of a no-compete commitment
• Representing the Belgian football league in a CSA (TAS) (Court of Sports Arbitration) Belgian arbitration procedure
• Representing a Belgian company active in the petroleum sector in a CEPANI arbitration on the alleged breach of a trademark licensing contract and an industrial partnership contract
• Representing an autonomous public entity linked to a foreign State in an action disputing the validity of the seizure of assets in Belgium by the creditors of that State in execution of an annulled foreign arbitration award
• Representing the landlord in a CEPANI arbitration proceeding against the real estate developer to whom superficies right had been granted in a dispute on the performance of the contract and its guarantees
• Representing buyers and sellers in arbitrations on share purchase agreements in various financial and industrial sectors
• Representing a major Belgian energy company in two parallel arbitration disputes arising from a disaster in a power plant, respectively against the manufacturer of the defective equipment, and the insurer of the equipment which refused to cover the loss
• Representing several clients in the enforcement of Belgian and foreign arbitral awards in Belgium
• Representing exporters, builders, Belgian or foreign entrepreneurs, or credit insurers, of states, private buyers and project leaders, in nearly thirty large export arbitrations in various industrial sectors (glass, textiles, fertilizers, oil refining, raw material sales, civil engineering and infrastructures, partnerships) involving Europe , Africa, the Middle East and the USA
• Multi-party arbitration between a purchaser of refining facilities and North American licensors and constructors
• Advising a European energy leader on international pre-litigation regarding a very long-term contract for the exchange of gas within the European Union and at its borders