Plaßmeier, Heiko

Counsel, Baker & McKenzie Düsseldorf

• General Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
• Recognition and Enforcement
• Insolvency

• 1986-1991 Study of Law at the University of Göttingen, Germany
• 1991 First State Exam before the Court of Appeal in Celle, Germany
• 1991-1995 Assistant to the Chair in the Department of Private International and Foreign Law, University of Göttingen, Germany
• 1995 Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.), University of Göttingen, Germany
• 1996 Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• 1996 Second State Exam before the Court of Appeal in Celle, Germany
• since July 2024: Partner gunnercooke GmbH Düsseldorf

As counsel: several ad hoc and institutional international and domestic proceedings in various areas, particularly plant construction and corporate disputes As arbitrator: chairman in a corporate and a post-M&A dispute; party-appointed arbitrator in a joint venture dispute.

• Unjust Enrichment in Private International and Comparative Law, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996
• The new English Arbitration Act, Betriebs-Berater 1997, Attachment 13, 2 (with Volker Triebel)
• The Use of Experts in Litigation and Arbitra¬tion in Germany, in: D. Mark Cato (ed.), The Expert in Litigation and Arbitration, 155, London Hong Kong 1999 (with Volker Triebel)
• Enforcement of “non-final” Arbitration Awards, SchiedsVZ 2004, 234
• Do we need Capital Investor Sample Proceedings? – Taking stock of the “KapMuG”, NZG 2005, 609
• Contributions on German law for “The Baker & McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook”, since 2007
• The End of “Double Exequatur” of Foreign Arbitration Awards, SchiedsVZ 2010, 82

• German
• English

• German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
• German-British Lawyers' Association
• Society for Comparative Law