Marc Krestin is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Fieldfisher, based in Amsterdam. Prior to joining Fieldfisher in February 2024, he gained over 15 years of experience in dispute resolution at international law firms in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Paris.
Marc acts as counsel in international commercial and investor state arbitrations under various institutional rules, as well as in corporate and commercial litigation before the Dutch courts, with a focus on energy, construction, retail, technology and corporate disputes. He also sits as an arbitrator and regularly advises clients on matters of public international law, ESG and third party funding.
He has published extensively in the field of international arbitration and ADR, has spoken at numerous conferences, and has guest lectured on arbitration and advocacy at the University of Amsterdam, the Paris Bar School, and Panthéon Assas University Paris II. Next to his long-standing active membership of AIJA, Marc is a member of the Investment Arbitration Committee of the Dutch Arbitration Association, the ESG Subcommittee of the IBA Arbitration Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Rising Arbitrators Initiative.
He holds master’s degrees in international law and economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an LLM in comparative and international dispute resolution from Queen Mary University of London. He is fluent in Dutch, German, English and French, and is admitted to the Amsterdam Bar and the Paris Bar (under Directive 98/5/EC).