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Lauren Rasking

Counsel

Email

lauren.rasking@aoshearman.com

Phone

+32 3 287 7310

Offices

Brussels

V-CARD
Lauren has extensive experience in advising clients on a wide range of contentious matters, both on local and on multi-jurisdictional cases.

She focusses on commercial litigation, (domestic and international) arbitration and antitrust litigation. She started her career at the firm in 2011, worked in the London arbitration group and now leads the Belgian arbitration team. Lauren acts as counsel and arbitrator and her practice focusses on complex domestic and domestic and international arbitration proceedings across a number of fields, including M&A, infrastructure and transport, energy, construction and life science. She is listed as a Rising Star in Dispute Resolution by Legal 500.In addition to her client work, Lauren is co-chair of CEPANI40, the network of young arbitration practitioners under the age of 40 under the auspices of CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation.

Expertise

Experience

Pro bono

  • Head pro deo desk.
  • Pro bono: SOS Children’s Villages point of contact within the firm's Belgium office.
  • Member of the Project Management Office (PMO) roll-out team for Belgium.
  • Member of the LegalTech team for A&O Shearman Belgium.

Published Work

  • Rasking L., Van Espen L, “New law expands Belgian ‘class actions’ framework”, A&O Shearman eAlert, June 2024

  • Rasking L., “Class actions in the European Union”, GTDT, October 2023

  • Rasking L., Hislaire J., “CEPANI leads the way on diversity and inclusion in arbitration”, A&O blog post, June 2023

  • Eyskens W., Rasking L., “Why the Belgium Supreme Court reversed first set aside decision of an investment treaty award”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, May 2024

  • Eyskens, W., Rasking, L., "Brussels court sets aside investment treaty award for wrongfully finding Poland breached its FET obligation through Denial of Justice", Kluwer Arbitration Blog, April 2022

  • Rasking, L., Maes, E., "The burden of family relations: how the subsidiary is held liable for competition law infringements of its parent company" in Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht, February 2022

  • Rasking, L., "Civielrechtelijke toerekening van mededingingsinbreuken aan een moedervennootschap: de kortste weg naar aansprakelijkheid" in Tijdschrift voor Belgisch Handelsrecht, July 2021

  • Rasking, L., Why investors should care about their portfolio companies infringing competition law, A&O client bulletin, February 2021

  • Rasking, L., European Commission positive about implementation of Damages Directive, A&O client bulletin, December 2020

  • Schoors, T., Rasking, L., Private antitrust litigation before Belgian courts: Gradual increase in follow-on damages actions, Chambers Global Practice Guide: Antitrust Litigation, October 2020

  • Eyskens, W., Rasking, L., “Third party funding in arbitration: Belgian state of play in a comparative perspective” in Liber Amicorum Cepani 1969-2019, Kluwer, 2019
    Schoors, T., Rasking, L., “European Commission publishes guidelines to help national courts estimate share of overcharge passed on in private damages actions - impact on Belgian case law?”, Allen & Overy eAlert, July 2019

  • Schoors, T., Rasking, L., “Private antitrust litigation on the rise in Belgium”, Allen & Overy eAlert, September 2018

  • Schoors, T., Rasking, L., “Belgian Private Damages Claims for Anti-Competitive Behaviour: Constitutional Court decides on Starting Point of Limitation Period”, Allen & Overy eAlert, March 2016

  • Arts, D., Eyskens, W., Schoors, T. and Rasking, L., “Private Enforcement – a phenomenon on the rise”, Allen & Overy client seminar, Brussels, September 2014

  • Schoors, T., Rasking, L., “Legt de algemene toepassing van de Wet Productaansprakelijkheid de aansprakelijkheidsbeperking van netbeheerders aan banden?”, MER 2014, ed. 2, 133-139 [“Does the general application of the Law on Product Liability restrain the limitation of liability of the grid operator”]

  • Schoors T., Rasking L., “Changes to Belgian law on late payment in commercial transactions to enhance protection of creditors”, Allen & Overy eAlert, November 2013

  • Schoors, T., Pacquée, D., Rasking, L., “Aansprakelijkheid van beheerders van elektriciteits- en gasdistributienetten”, in X., Jaarboek Energierecht 2011, 147-180 [“Liability of the operators of electricity and gas distribution networks”]

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted to the Brussels bar (Belgium), 2019 - present

Admitted to the Antwerp bar (Belgium), 2011 - 2019

Academic

LLM, University of Chicago Law School (Fellowship Fulbright), 2011; LLM representative in the board of the International Law Society at the University of Chicago Law school

Master’s degree, Catholic University of Louvain (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), 2010, magna cum laude

Jessup International Moot Court

Erasmus exchange program, Université de Montpellier, 2009, magna cum laude

Bachelor’s degree, Catholic University of Louvain (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), 2008, cum laude

Languages

Dutch, English, French
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.