Dr. Dylan Geraets

Dr. Dylan Geraets advises multinational companies, sovereigns, and industry associations on the full spectrum of international trade and EU regulatory matters. Clients turn to him for assistance on ESG-and-trade regulation, customs and excise, WTO and free trade agreement (FTA) dispute settlement, EU sanctions and export controls (including FDI screening), and proceedings before the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Dylan combines EU-level policy insight with ground-level enforcement experience, enabling him to guide clients across the full regulatory life cycle – from legislative monitoring and advocacy through implementation, compliance, and enforcement.

Dylan’s practice focuses on EU regulatory advisory, enforcement readiness, and advocacy. He advises leading multinational clients on the EU legislative process and implementation of major EU instruments, including the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the EU Forced Labour Regulation (EUFLR), the EU Methane Regulation (EUMR), the F-Gas Regulation, and the reform of the Union Customs Code (UCC). Dylan also advises on instruments adopted or negotiated as part of the EU's push for Strategic Autonomy, such as the FDI Screening Regulation, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the Anti-Coercion Instrument, and the Industrial Accelerator Act.

Dylan has advised:

• Multinationals and sovereigns in several major WTO disputes, involving quota, trade defence measures, trade in services, trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs), and the basic non-discrimination principles, including leading the drafting of written submissions and participating in substantive meetings with WTO panels in Geneva
• Clients in annulment proceedings before the CJEU against EU Delegated Acts and Regulations
• Clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union in cases against regulations imposing anti-dumping measures
• Various stakeholders, including exporting producers, importers, and industry associations, in EU trade defence investigations (dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard)

• Associate to Watch – Chambers Global
• Client feedback: “responsive and knows the history behind everything, providing excellent value quickly”; “consistently delivers work of a high level of sophistication, combining strong technical expertise with clear commercial awareness”; “Dylan Geraets’ appreciation of the specificities of our business allows him to provide guidance that is finely tailored to our needs”
• ‘Rising Stars’ for Customs, Trade, WTO and Anti-Dumping – Legal 500 EMEA
• “Recommended” for Trade & Customs – Lexology Index
• “Recommended” for Trade & Customs — International Sanctions – Lexology Index

• Maastricht University, LLM
• Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, MSc
• KU Leuven, PhD

• Brussels Bar (Nederlands Orde van Advocaten, balie Brussel)

• Holandês
• Inglês
• Alemão

• Professor of International Trade and Investment Law at the University of Antwerp
• Visiting Lecturer at various universities and institutions
• Member of the Academic Board of the ELSA John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
• Member of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR)
• Member of the International Law Association (ILA)
• Member of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)
• Regular speaker at international conferences