Dano specializes in international trade law, with a focus on WTO law and EU trade defense proceedings. He also counsels on international arbitration.
Dano Brossmann
E: Dano.brossmann@vvgb-law.com
T: +32 2 542 07 80
T: +32 2 210 59 83
Experience
Dano joined VVGB in 2025 as a trade lawyer.
Before joining VVGB, Dano worked for two years as an associate at an international law firm in Luxembourg, specializing in litigation and international arbitration. He represented multinational corporations and sovereign states in arbitration proceedings, as well as in enforcement actions.
Dano previously served as a trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the chambers of Judge Jan Passer, where he contributed to cases involving EU competition law, arbitration, and public law, including the European Super League. After law studies in Paris and New York, he interned for more than a year at American and French law firms, where he was involved in proceedings before arbitral tribunals and the International Court of Justice. He also completed an externship at the ICSID in Washington D.C. where he worked on a NAFTA trade and investment dispute against Mexico.
Dano studied WTO law with Professor Petros C. Mavroidis and was ranked as the best in class in multiple subjects. During his studies, he conducted field research in Donbass-Ukraine and took part in numerous moot court competitions. In 2022, he successfully coached the Sciences Po Paris team in the Frankfurt Investment Law Moot Court that finished as the 4th best team worldwide. In 2024, he was awarded the 1st Prize in an essay competition organized by the EFILA in which he analyzed the EU Council’s decision to deny benefits to Russian investors under the Energy Charter Treaty.
Credentials
Education
- Sciences Po Paris: Master’s in Global Business Law and Governance with Columbia Law School
- King’s College London: B.A. International Relations
- University of Amsterdam: LL.M. in International Trade & Investment Law
Bar admissions
- Not admitted to practice law in Belgium
Languages
- English
- Slovak
- French
- Czech
- Spanish
- Russian
Publications & Events
Downloads
- Brossmann, “EU Council’s Denial of Benefits to Russian and Belorussian Investors under the Energy Charter Treaty: Assessment of the Decision’ Legality under EU and International Law (1st Essay Competition Prize Winner 2024)”, European Investment Law and Arbitration Review, Wolters Kluwer, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2024) pp. 371 – 388
- Kremer, P. Paschalidis, D. Brossmann, P. Vedev, “The 2019 BLEU Model BIT: BLEU’s Vision of the Future of Investment Protection”, European Investment Law and Arbitration Review, Wolters Kluwer, Volume 9, Issue 1 (2024) pp. 41 – 68
- Brossmann, "Avoiding the Bad from Getting Worse: Investors' Right to Full Reparation under European Union Law after Moldova v Komstroy", TDM 3 (2023), www.transnational-dispute-management.com