Attorney-at-Law / Certified Specialist for International Commercial Law, Baker&McKenzie, Dusseldorf office, Germany.
Current activity
Professional focus
- Legal disputes before German courts and domestic and international arbitral tribunals
- in particular post-M&A disputes
- corporate
- commercial and distribution disputes.
Areas of law
My career
- 1997 - 2000 German Air Force Officers Course,
- 2000 - 2005 University of Cologne,
- 2005 First Legal State Exam,
- 2005 - 2007 Int. Law Firm(Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution)
- 2007 Doctor iuris
- 2009 Second Legal State Exam
- since then Baker&McKenzie Dusseldorf
- 2011/2012 Client Secondment
- since 2015 Certified Specialist for International Commercial Law.
Arbitration experience
Long standing experience as party representative (DIS, ICC, Warenverein Hamburger Börse), Chairman (2x DIS, 3x Ad-hoc) and party appointed arbitrator (3x DIS, 1x DIS-Fast-Track, 1x Ad-hoc) in national and international arbitration proceedings, in particular distribution and commercial disputes, disputes under company law and disputes arising from share purchase agreements.
Publications
- Numerous publications with respect to international arbitration proceedings and international commercial law, inter alia:- Fast-Track Arbitration: The ICC Expedited Procedure, SchiedsVZ 2017, p. 81
- - Admissibility to serve a complaint filed with a US-court in Germany," jurisPR-IWR 1/2016, Note 3
- - Disputes relating to indemnification claims in share purchase agreements, NJW 2016, p. 980
- - Legal Consequences of Significantly Delayed Invention Disclosure (with J. Boehnke), GRUR 2013, p. 789
- - Annotation of judgment of the BGH of 22 November 2012 ('Bring-or-Pay'), BB 2013, p. 403;
- - DIS-Conference, The Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators, SchiedsVZ 2011, p. 276.
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
- former regional coordinator of the Initiative of Young Arbitrators for the Rhine / Ruhr area (DIS40)
- Member of Junior Chamber International (Dusseldorf branch)
- Co-organizer of the Duesseldorf Pre-Moot Rounds.