Of Counsel Pfitzner LEGAL Kettenhofweg 98 60325 Frankfurt am Main T +49 69 87 000 2900 F +49 69 87 000 2999 E schlabrendorff@pfitznerlegal.com
Current activity
Professional focus
- M&A
- banking law
- joint ventures
- corporate law
- foreign investments
- knowledge of Swiss law, US law, Austrian law, Spanish law
- natural resources
- telecommunication
- infrastructure development
- privatization
Areas of law
My career
- Universities of Tübingen, Berlin, Genf, Frankfurt am Main
- First Legal State Examination 1971
- Second Legal State Examination 1981
- The University of Chicago, Master of Arts (Political Sciences) 1975
- Doctor of Jurisprudence 1987
- research coordinator at the Institute of International and Foreign Trade and Business Law, Frankfurt am Main, 1975-1978
- joined Pünder, Volhard, Weber & Axster in 1982 and became partner in 1986
Arbitration experience
As arbitrator: 1 as chairman, 5 as sole arbitrator, 4 as co-arbitrator; mainly ICC, DIS proceedings. As counsel: acting as counsel in national and international arbitration proceedings on a regular basis; institutional and ad hoc proceedings. Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: joint ventures, acquisitions, natural resources, infrastructure development, telecommunication.
Publications
- Mining Ventures in Developing Countries, as co-author, part 1 1979, part 2 1981
- The Legal Structure of Transnational Forest-Based Investments in Developing Countries, 1987
- Zur Novellierung des deutschen Schiedsverfahrensrechts, in: Recht in Österreich und Europa, Festschrift Karl Hempel, 1997
- Auswirkungen des neuen Rechts auf die Praxis des Schiedsverfahrens, in: DIS-Materialien IV: Neues Deutsches Schiedsverfahrensrecht, Neue DIS-Schiedsgerichtsordnung, 1998
- § 23 Schiedsverfahren, in: Handbuch der Handelsgeschäfte, ed. Thomas Pfeiffer, 1999 Substantive law in international long-term infrastructure contracts, ADRLJ 3-18, 2000
Languages
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
Memberships
- German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
- ICC Commission on International Arbitration
- ICC International Court of Arbitration (German delegate)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- ASA
- DAV
- International Bar Association (IBA)