Attorney/Managing Partner
Current activity
Professional focus
Areas of law
My career
- Since 2011 Partner with Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte
- 2006 – 2011 Counsel with the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris, Deputy Counsel from 2004 -2006
- 2003 – 2005 Master of Mediation (M.M.), specialization in commercial and business mediation and mediation in the public sector, Fern-Universität Hagen
- 2004 Consultant with the EU Liaison Office of Bayer AG, Brussels
- 2002 – 2004 Legal traineeship (Referendariat) in Northrhine-Westphalia
- 2001 Summer Associate with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Berlin
- 1995 – 2001 Studies of law at the universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, Ottawa (Canada) and Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1994 – 1995 Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen
Arbitration experience
***Sole/Co-Arbitrator and Chair in more than 70 arbitral proceedings under the Rules of the DIS, ICC, VIAC, SCC, WIPO, the Danish Institute of Arbitration and ad hoc ***Case management of app. 1000 ICC arbitration proceedings and scrutiny of app. 500 ICC awards. Has dealt with almost all possible procedural constellations and situations, many different subject matters and jurisdictions as well as a range of industrial sectors. ***Consultant with the International Centre for Expertise of the ICC for ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Expert Determination proceedings under the New gTLD Dispute Resolution Procedure/ICC Expertise Rules ***Appointed to the WIPO List of Arbitrators ***Appointed to the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC)
Publications
- § 20 Schiedsspruch, in: Salger/Trittmann (eds.), Internationale Schiedsverfahren – Praxishandbuch, 2019, jointly with Dr. Inka Hanefeld (in German)
- Arbitration in a Post-Truth-World: Perception v Reality, IBA Dispute Resolution International, Vol. 12 No. 2 2018, pp. 165 et seq., jointly with Aaron de Jong
- Chapter 10: Germany, in Jørgensen (ed.): Finding, Freezing and Attaching Assets, March 2016, jointly with Dr. Friedrich Rosenfeld
- The Arbitral Tribunal’s Deliberations – potential conflicts and ways to avoid them, SchiedsVZ 2015, pp. 169 et seq., jointly with Dr. Johanna Büstgens (in German)
- Praxiskommentar ICC-SchO/DIS-SchO (Co-Editor), Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt, December 2014 (together with Axel Benjamin Herzberg)
- The New UNCITRAL Transparency Rules: How the Trend towards Transparency differs in Investment and Commercial Arbitration, in: Müller, Rigozzi (eds.), New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2013, November 2013 (together with Dr. Friedrich Rosenfeld)
- Arbitral Tribunals in Germany and Western Europe, in: Paschke, Graf, Olbrisch (eds.), Hamburger Handbuch des Exportrechts, 2014 (in German)
Languages
Memberships
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Arb. & ADR
- Swiss Association of Arbitration (ASA)
- Appointed member of the International Dispute Resolution Committees of the Voldgiftsinstituttet (Danish Institute of Arbitration)
- Danish Arbitration Association
- Hamburg Arbitration Circle
Further informations
Named in JUVE’s list of Germany’s top 30 most renowned arbitrators as well as Germany’s top 30 most renowned counsel in arbitration proceedings*** Named in Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Commercial Arbitration 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014*** Named in Who’s Who Legal Germany: Arbitration Lawyers 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015*** Named in Who’s Who Legal: Legal Thought Leaders – Arbitration 2020, 2019, 2018*** Recommended in The Legal 500 Germany 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015***