Büstgens, Johanna

Attorney/Senior Associate

• Since 2016 Attorney with HANEFELD, Hamburg
• 2017 Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.), Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
• 2013 - 2016 Legal traineeship (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg including work experience with the European Commission (Directorate-General for Competition), the German Parliament and the ICC International Court of Arbitration
• 2012 Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley
• 2011 - 2013 Research and teaching assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, Private International and International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law at Bucerius Law School
• 2011 Internship at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (international arbitration group), London
• 2006 - 2011 Law studies at Bucerius Law School (with a focus on international commercial law) and Oxford University (Brasenose College)

Arbitrator and secretary to the arbitral tribunal in more than 20 domestic and international arbitration proceedings***Representation of domestic and foreign companies in domestic and international arbitration proceedings and DAB proceedings***Representation of domestic and foreign companies in state court proceedings before German Courts (cross-border litigation, commercial disputes, enforcement of arbitral awards)

• Dispute resolution by Dispute Adjudication Boards - practical advice on the structuring and conduct of proceedings (in German), BauR 2020, S. 1385 ff.
• Enforcing ICSID awards in Germany, Practice Note for LexisPSL, 2020
• Transparency and Publicity in Mixed Arbitrations (dissertation, in German), 2017
• Enforcement of Foreign Judgements, International Comparative Law Guide, Chapter 14: Germany, 2nd ed. (2017), Global Legal Group
• The Arbitral Tribunal’s Deliberations - potential conflicts and ways to avoid them, SchiedsVZ (2015), pp. 169 et seq.
• Mock exam on the law of unjust enrichment and damages (in German, jointly with Sarah Nietner), JURA 2014, pp. 1275 et seq.

• Co-chair of DIS40
• Co-chair of the Bucerius Law School Alumni group “Dispute Resolution”
• German Arbitration Institute (DIS40)
• Young ICCA
• ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)
• Groupe ASA des Jeunes Praticiens de l'Arbitrage (ASA Below 40)
• LCIA Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG)
• Arbitral Women and Young Arbitral Women Practitioners (YAWP)
• Feminin pluriel

Lecturer on international contract law at the FOM University of Applied Science Hamburg (since 2019)