Hanefeld, Inka

Attorney/Founding and Managing Partner

• 2011 Founder of HANEFELD
• 2006-2011 Partner with Friedrich Korch Hanefeld, Hamburg
• 2005-2006 Partner with Renzenbrink Raschke von Knobelsdorff Heiser, Hamburg
• 1997-1998 and 1999-2005 Associate with Freshfields, Dispute Resolution Department, Vienna, New York, Frankfurt and Hamburg
• 2002 New York State Bar Exam
• 1998-1999 Master of Laws (LL.M.), New York University School of Law
• 1995-1997 legal traineeships (inter alia in Hamburg and New York)
• 1989-1995 Studies of Laws and Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.), University of Hamburg

Experience in more than 100 arbitration proceedings as an Arbitrator – 44 as Chair (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, DIS, GMAA, CEAC, Hamburg CC, ad hoc), 6 of which involved State-controlled entities and 4 of which constituted investor-State Treaty Arbitrations; 7 as Sole Arbitrator (ICC, DIS, VIAC, Hamburg CC), 1 of which involved a State-controlled entity and 71 as Co-Arbitrator (ICC, ICSID, SCC, DIS, PCA, VIAC, CEAC, ad hoc), 7 of which involved State-controlled entities or a sovereign State and 3 of which constituted investor-State Treaty Arbitrations – as well as in numerous national and international arbitration proceedings (ICC, DIS, ZHK, VIAC, AAA, ICSID, ad hoc) as Counsel - 3x Member of an ICSID Annulment Committee - 1x Member of a LCIA Challenge Division

• The Prague Rules – The New Contender and its Old Champion, in: Festschrift für Roderich Thümmel zum 65. Geburtstag am 23.10.2020, pp. 283 et seq., 2020
• Country Report: Germany, in: Weigand / Baumann (eds.), Practitioner’s Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration, 3rd ed., 2019
• § 20 Arbitral Awards (in German), in: Salger / Trittmann (eds.), Internationale Schiedsverfahren – Praxishandbuch, 2019
• Inherent Powers to Streamline the Proceedings, in: European International Arbitration Review 2017, pp. 49 et seq., 2017
• International Arbitration between standardization and flexibility - Predictability and flexibility seen from a client’s perspective, in: SchiedsVZ 2015, pp. 20 et seq., 2015

• Since 2022 Member of the Governing Body of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
• Member of the Steering Committee ICC Court Alumni Group
• From 2015 to 2021 Vice President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
• From May 2015 to May 2020 Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
• From 2013 to 2019 Nominated by the Federal Republic of Germany for the ICSID list of arbitrators

Recommended and named, inter alia, in GAR, Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500, JUVE