Since 1993 Partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt, Germany, since 2012 Honorarprofessor at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Current activity
Professional focus
- Post M&A Disputes
- Corporate
- Distribution/Antitrust
- Turn-key projects
Areas of law
My career
- 1978 - 1982 University of Frankfurt and München, 1983 First State Examination
- 1983 - 1986 Apprenticeship, 1986 Second State Examination
- 1986 - 1987 Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Master of Laws (LL.M)
- 1987-1988 Research Assistant at the University of Munich (Prof. Fikentscher)
- 1988 Dr. iur, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, (Prof. Dr. Rehbinder)
- 1989-1992 Lawyer in litigation department of Westrick & Eckholdt, since 1993 partner
- since 2009 German member at the ICC Court of Arbitration, since 2012 Honorarprofessor at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Arbitration experience
As arbitrator: in total 70 arbitrations: as Chairman: 20 proceedings, ad hoc, ICC; Sole Arbitrator: 7 proceeding, ICC; Co-arbitrator: 43 proceedings, ICC, DIS ad hoc. As counsel: in total 68 arbitrations: i.a. ICC, LCIA, DIS, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Distribution Law, General Corporate, Trade Law, Turn-Key Projects
Publications
- Anwendungsprobleme des Haager Beweisübereinkommens im Rechtshilfeverkehr zwischen der Bundesrepublik und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Diss. 1988 (The Implementing of the Hague Evidence Convention in relation between Germany and the U.S.)
- Author of the chapter on Arbitration in "Hopt Vertrags- und Formularbuch zum Handels-, Gesellschafts-, Bank- und Transportrecht 1995, Kapitel über die Handelsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit", 4th Edition 2013
- International Agency and Distribution Law, Kapitel über Deutschland
- Die Auswirkungen des Schiedsverfahrens-Neuregelungsgesetzes auf gesellschaftsrechtliche Streitigkeiten, ZGR 1999, 340 ff.
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- DAV
- DIS
- ABA
- IBA
- DAJV
- ASA