Partner, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
Current activity
Professional focus
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate Law
- International Arbitration
Areas of law
My career
- Universities of Munich and Münster (Legal Trainee/Referendar 1968; Assessor 1971; Dr. jur. 1971)
- Buckeridge & Braune, Solicitors, London, United Kingdom (1971)
- Westfalenbank AG (1962-1964)
Arbitration experience
Chairman and Co-arbitrator in international arbitrations (investment treaty, post M&A, construction, corporate under ICC, Danish Arbitration, SIAC, DIS, etc. and UNCITRAL ad hoc).
Publications
- Dispute Adjudication vs Arbitration, Liber Amicorum Prof. Siegfried Elsing, March 2015
- Defaulting Parties and Default Awards in International Arbitration, Liber Amicorum Gerhard Wegen, March 2015
- The Practice of Arbitration, Arbitration and Insolvency, Liber Amicorum Hans van Houtte 2012
- "2010 Advisor to the IBA Rules of Evidence Subcommittee", Münchener Handbuch Corporate Law, Part 2, 3rd edition 2009
- "Current Issues concerning the application of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: a German perspective", Journal of International Arbitration 2008
- Common Law vs Civil Law Proceedings in Commercial Arbitration in Liber Amicorum Dr. Lüer 2008
- "Honorare bleiben gedeckelt" in: Financial Times Deutschland of May 22, 2007
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- Honorary Member of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
- Past chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association
- Past member (1990 to 1996) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Co-Chair, Arbitration in Maritime and Transport Disputes, Hamburg, 2007
- Co-Chair, International Bar Association First International Arbitration Day, New York, 1997
- Co-Chair, International Bar Association Second International Arbitration Day, Düsseldorf, 1998