specialises in contract law, commercial law, and corporate law. He assists Belgian and international clients before Belgian courts and in arbitral procedures, while also providing advice on these matters.

His practice focusses on assisting Belgian and international companies in complex litigation and arbitration proceedings, including post-M&A and other corporate or commercial disputes. He regularly acts as counsel or arbitrator in domestic and international arbitral proceedings.

He regularly assists clients in drafting and negotiating various complex contractual structures, commercial agreements and corporate transactions.

His client base spans a wide range of industries, including banking and finance, renewable energy, industrial production, transport, services, and construction and real estate.

Sander holds a PhD in law (KU Leuven), with a dissertation on the security agent in syndicated loans. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Law of Obligations at the KU Leuven. He has authored numerous publications on contract, corporate, and financial law, and is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars in Belgium and abroad, reflecting his commitment to bridging theory and practice. A full list of Sander’s publications is available [here]. He received the Ius Commune Prize (2014) for his contribution on the Lehman Brothers’ insolvency and the protection of client money, published in the European Review of Private Law.

He also served as secretary to the expert group appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice to reform Belgian contract law (which entered into force on 1 January 2023).

Sander is a member of the editorial committee of a leading Belgian law review (Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht – Revue de Droit Commercial Belge) and of the CEPANI Newsletter. He is a member of the steering committee of CEPANI40, and a member of Young ICCA, and AIJA.