Hendrik is a Partner in Trowers & Hamlins' Commercial Disputes team and Co-Head of the International Arbitration group.
Hendrik has nearly 20 years' experience advising clients on a wide range of complex and high-value disputes, both in arbitration and in court. He also acts as arbitrator and mediator, and as expert witness on English law in foreign proceedings.
Hendrik has extensive experience in representing entrepreneurs, family offices, companies and governments in cases ranging across M&A, joint ventures, franchising, construction, engineering, insurance, shipping, commodities, art and cultural property and other fields.
He has acted as party representative and arbitrator in both commercial and investor-state arbitrations under various rules, such as LCIA, ICC, VIAC, SIAC, DIS, LMAA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and the ICSID Additional Facility. He also assists clients with the enforcement, appeal, annulment, and injunction of arbitral awards and has given strategic advice to several governments on their investment treaty portfolio.
Hendrik is multilingual and qualified in four jurisdictions (both civil law and common law), which enables him to handle cross-border issues effectively. He is known for his pragmatic and assertive approach to dispute resolution and advocacy.
An academic as well as a practitioner, he holds fellowships at both Green Templeton College, Oxford and Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has taught at a number of universities, including Exeter, the European Business School (Germany) the University of Malawi, Middlesex, and Linz (Austria). Widely published on a variety of arbitration matters, he is the principal author of a leading textbook on challenges against arbitrators and arbitral awards. He is currently completing a commentary of the LMAA Terms.