Lawyer in own practice, Hamburg
Current activity
Professional focus
- Real estate
- Energy
- Corporate
- M & A
- German and international arbitration
Areas of law
My career
- 1970-1974 Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg
- 1974 First State Examination, University of Hamburg
- 1977 Second State Examination, Justizbehörde Hamburg
- 1977/78 Legal department, Hamburgische Landesbank, Hamburg
- 1978 Admitted to the Bar
- 1978-2001 Associate and Partner White & Case (Managing Partner 1998-2000)
- 2001-2012 Partner Allen & Overy LLP (Managing Partner and Senior Partner 2002-2009)
Arbitration experience
Numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings as party counsel and arbitrator; subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: coffee trade; international construction (EPC); corporate and partnership law; law firms; international M & A; charterparty; port agency contract; general agency contract; offshore wíndfarms, post M&A
Publications
- Comparative law thesis on European corporate law
- Articles on energy industry law after the liberalisation of the electricity sector
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- HAV
- DAV
- IBA (SBL, SERL)
- DIS
- ASA
- GMAA