Lauren Rasking
Senior Associate
Brussels
Lauren Rasking
Senior Associate
Brussels
Contact details
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 antitrust litigation, commercial litigation and (domestic and international) arbitration and has also built up a broad experience with commercial contracts, including services agreements and distribution related matters (franchising, commercial agency, concessions).
She has a special interest in private enforcement, and has been advising a major commodity trader on a stand-alone private damages claim against another market player on the basis of the latter’s anti-competitive behaviour.
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.
Qualifications
Professional
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
Related articles
Blog Post: 30 June 2023
CEPANI leads the way on diversity and inclusion in arbitration
The Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI) has adopted a groundbreaking new set of arbitration rules that add diversity and inclusion to the existing criteria for the appointment of…
Publications: 29 March 2023
Directive (EU) 2020/1828: A new framework for EU class actions
Publications: 21 June 2022
How subsidiaries are impacted by competition law infringements of their parent companies
Qualifications
Professional
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
Pro-bono experience
- Head pro deo desk
- Pro bono: SOS Children’s Villages point of contact within Allen & Overy Belgium
- Member of the Project Management Office (PMO) roll-out team for Belgium
- Member of the LegalTech team for A&O Belgium
Published work
- 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”]
