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Didier Matray

Address: 

Matray, Matray & Hallet S.C.
Rue des Fories, 2
4020 Liège
Belgium

Phone Number: 
(32-4) 252.70.68
Fax Number: 
(32-4) 252.08.57
Email: 
dmatray@matray.be
Born: 
1951, Liège
Languages: 
French German English Dutch Italian
Nationalities: 
Belgian
Education: 
Licencié en droit 1973, Univ. of Liège, with First Honors
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to Liège bar 1973, to Cologne as Belgian attorney 1988 ; Member of the Paris bar since March 2003 in application of the European Directive 98/5/CE
Present Position: 
Avocat au Barreau de Liège (1973- ); Former Chairman of Liège bar (2003-2005); Senior Lecturer at the University of Liège (1992- ); Member of the Board (Regent) of the National Bank of Belgium (2005- ); Member of the Supervisory Counsel of the Commission
Panels of Arbitrators: 

ICC (Paris), ICSID (Washington), CEPANI (Belgian Arbitration Institution, Brussels), Ohada Justice and Arbitration Court (Cour Commune de Justice et d’arbitrage de l’OHADA, Abidjan), International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Vienna), ad hoc

Arbitration Experience: 

More than 45 international arbitrations, either as sole arbitrator, or as co-arbitrator or as counsel; conflicts between Belgian companies and state-owned Arabian companies re: factory building; Belgian and an Arabian state re: sale of equipment; African manufacturer and African bank: re: re: credit agreement; Belgian company and African State: re: key turn contract; Belgian company and U.S. company re: agency contract; arbitration re: agency contracts between Belgian manufacturer and Austrian subcontractor, re: sale of good, investment contracts; disputes between States and companies

Areas of Specialization: 
Arbitration & ADR
Corporate
International Business Transactions
Joint Ventures
Mergers & Acquisitions
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Author of numerous articles, reports and other publications on arbitration law, contracts, corporation, joint ventures, Mergers and Acquisition, shareholder’s agreements.