Since 1997 (founding) partner with MPK Rechtsanwälte Michaelis Pfeifer König, Frankfurt focussing on plant construction projects
Current activity
Professional focus
- Comprehensive legal management of investment projects, especially in the area of large scale industrial plant set-ups, for both, contractor/seller and owner/purchaser
- FIDIC contracts
- construction law
- international business law
- arbitration
Areas of law
My career
- 1979-1983 Study of law in Marburg, Geneva and Münster
- 1984-1987 Assistant with the Institute for International Business Law, Prof. Dr. Sandrock
- 1987 Dr. jur., University of Münster
- 1988 Corporate law firm in Paris
- 1989 Admission to the bar in Frankfurt
- 1989-1991 Attorney with Pünder Volhard Weber & Axster in Frankfurt
- 1991-1994 In house counsel with Lurgi AG, Frankfurt
- 1994-1997 Attorney in single practice counseling international plant construction projects
Arbitration experience
More than 25 proceedings, as arbitrator (as well single arbitrator and chairman) and party's counsel, as per DIS and ICC rules as well as ad hoc. Main focus of the arbitral proceedings: Industrial plant construction, turn-key contracts, but also licencing and technical cooperation, corporate and post M&A
Publications
- Garantieklauseln und Risikoverteilung im int. Industrieanlagenvertrag, Heidelberg 1988
- Das besondere Vertragsrecht des Anlagenbaus, RIW 1997, S. 455-464
- Muß der Anlagenbauer alles wissen?, NZBau 2000, S. 361-366
- Garantien in der Praxis des Anlagenvertrags und das neue Schuldrecht: Ein unauflöslicher oder nur ein scheinbarer Konflikt? NZBau 2003 S. 121-126
- "Photovoltaik und nachhaltige Ertragsgarantien" und "Schiedsklauseln und andere Vereinbarungen zur Gerichtsbarkeit in gestuften Verträgen", beide in: Heidelberger Kolloquium Technologie und Recht 2007 (Hg. Fritz Nicklisch)
- Einkauf von Investitionsgütern - Sollten Abnahme und Selbstvornahme geregelt sein? in: BMEnet Beschaffungsdienstleister Guide 2008
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Memberships
- DIS
- DAV