Current activity

Since 2014 Partner of Borris Hennecke Kneisel, Cologne, Germany; since 2015 Lecturer on International Dispute Resolution at the Europa-Institute of Saarland University, Germany

Professional focus

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  • Post M&A
  • corporate
  • D&O-liability
  • banking & finance
  • Energy and cross-border sales transactions

Areas of law

My career

  • 1999-2004 University of Frankfurt, First State Examination
  • 2004-2007 Scholarship for PhD-studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main, Dr. iur. (2008), University of Frankfurt
  • 2007-2009 Legal Traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, 2009 Second State Examination
  • 2009-2014 Lawyer in the arbitration and litigation practice group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cologne and Frankfurt

Arbitration experience

As arbitrator: 20 arbitrations (8x chairman, 2x sole arbitrator, 10x party-appointed arbitrator): DIS, DIS-SRCoLD, ICC, ad hoc; as counsel: 22 arbitrations: DIS, ICC, NAI, UNCITRAL, other ad hoc

Publications

  • Verteidigungsstrategien gegen die Anordnung der Document-Production in internationalen Schiedsverfahren – insbesondere nach den IBA-Regeln zur Beweisaufnahme, SchiedsVZ 2013, p. 1320-1330 (together with Claudia Lecking)
  • „par amour“ oder „par droit“? Die Verrechtlichung der zwischenstaatlichen Konfliktlösung im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Serge Dauchy/Miloš Vec (ed.), Les conflits entre peuples. De la résolution libre à la résolution imposée, Baden-Baden 2011
  • Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Internationalen Verwaltungsunionen (1874 - 1914): Die Verrechtlichung der zwischenstaatlichen Streitbeilegung, Baden-Baden 2009
  • Vom Internationalen zum Transnationalen Recht – Die Entstaatlichung der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, in: Bäcker/Baufeld (ed.), Objektivität und Flexibilität im Recht, ARSP-Beiheft 103, Stuttgart 2005, p. 157-170

Languages

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  • German
  • English

Memberships

  • DIS
  • DIS40
  • AIJA
  • YIAG
  • ICC YAF

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