Vanessa Foncke
Belgium
Jones Day
Rue de la Régence
Regentschapsstraat 4
1000 Brussels
Tel: +32.2.645.15.58
Email:
vfoncke@jonesday.com
Web:
www.jonesday.com
Vanessa Foncke represents Belgian and foreign clients in a broad range of contractual and commercial disputes and negotiations in all stages of arbitration, court, and administrative proceedings. She also conducts internal compliance investigations on behalf of clients.
Vanessa has extensive experience in domestic and international commercial arbitration both as counsel and arbitrator. She is a member of the board of administration of CEPANI, the Belgian institution for arbitration and mediation. In that capacity she also participates in the bi-annual meetings of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group II (Dispute Settlement). She is a member of an arbitration team recognized by Global Arbitration Review as one of the world’s 30 top international arbitration practices for the eighth consecutive year.
Vanessa’s experience spans a broad spectrum of disputes and industries, notably including construction, corporate (post-M&A), complex contractual, regulatory, distribution, telecommunications, energy, and real estate. She is ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, and The Legal 500 EMEA.
Vanessa is a lawyer in the Flemish section of the Brussels Bar since 2004 and served as secretary and member of the Dutch speaking Brussels Bar Council from 2018 to 2022. In 2016 she rendered the inaugural speech at the Brussels Bar. She is a member of the Committee for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Flemish Bar Association and is admitted to the list of third-party deciders of the Dutch-speaking Brussels Bar. Vanessa is fluent in Dutch, English, and French and is proficient in German.
Awards & Recognition
- Chambers Global / Chambers Europe — Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (Belgium) (2023): “responsive and fully dedicated to understand and defend clients’ interests”
- Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration — Global Leader (2023)
- The Legal 500 EMEA: Dispute Resolution — Leading Individual (2023)
- Law.com International — Europe’s Female Rising Stars (2021)
More than 200 lawyers, located in more than 25 business centers worldwide, help clients successfully resolve high-value disputes wherever they arise, whether through litigation, arbitration, or some combination of the two.
- We serve clients in some of the most challenging jurisdictions around the world and in some of the highest-value disputes in those jurisdictions.
- Clients benefit from lawyers worldwide who focus on disputes and provide an integrated approach to resolving matters before tribunals and courts in multiple jurisdictions.
- Our Global Disputes lawyers handle both litigation and arbitration disputes for clients with no preference for either.
- We regularly help clients challenge sovereign acts and government overregulation, invoking domestic law and public international law where appropriate to achieve the best result.
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Jones Day has a long history of, and commitment to, pro bono work, public service, and community involvement in all of our locations around the world. Because of that commitment, pro bono and public service matters undertaken by Jones Day are provided the same level of attention and professional dedication that we provide to matters undertaken on behalf of paying clients.
At Jones Day you’ll see lawyers from diverse backgrounds leading client engagements, practice groups, and offices around the world. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and advancing highly qualified diverse lawyers and have set priorities in entry level recruitment, lateral recruitment, development and retention of minority and female lawyers, and diversity mentoring, training and awareness.
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“Vanessa Foncke has a very professional approach. Very committed, and her legal reasoning is both outstanding and efficient.”