Attorney-at-Law / Partner HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH; Professor University of Cooperative Education, Ravensburg; Lecturer at the University of Bielefeld, the Maastricht University, the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and the European Business School - Finance Academy
Current activity
Professional focus
- German and International Arbitration
- Business Mediation and Facilitation
- Trade and Corporate Law, especially representation of shareholders, members of management boards and directors
- US-Law and International Private Law
- General Contract Law
- Labour Law
Areas of law
My career
- 1990 State Law Exam, University of Bielefeld
- 1995 Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Illinois / USA
- 1996 Admission as Attorney at Law, Germany and as Attorney at Law, New York
- 1996-2000 Finanzbau-MARITIM-Unternehmensgruppe: Corporate Lawyer, Proxy Holder (Prokuristin) and Head of the Legal Department as well as Managing Director of a Subsidiary
- 2000 Doctor Degree (Promotion), University of Bielefeld
- 2000 Master of Business Administration (MBA), Maastricht University / Nether-lands
- 2000-2001 Articon-Integralis AG: Corporate Lawyer, Head of the Legal Department
- Since 2001 HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (former: Pricewaterhouse Coopers Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) Attorney at Law / Partner
- 2001 Accredited Mediator, FernUniversitaet Hagen (Germany)
- Since 2002 Part-time Professor, University of Cooperative Education, Ravensburg
- 2002 Special Qualification in the Field of Labour Law: "Fachanwaeltin für Arbeitsrecht"
- 2007 Special Qualification in the Field of Trade and Corporate Law: "Fachanwaeltin für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht"
- 2007 Admission to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
Arbitration experience
As Sole Arbitrator: 3 proceedings (ad hoc); As Co-Arbitrator: 2 proceedings (DIS and ad hoc); As Mediator: More than 20 proceedings, exclusively in the area of Business Mediation; As counsel: Several proceedings (ad hoc, CAS); Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Trade and Corporate Law; General Contract Law; Sports Law (doping); CISG and International Law
Publications
- Dendorfer, Renate/Krebs, Thomas, Konfliktlösung durch Mediation bei Gesellschafter-streitigkeiten, MittBayNot 2/2008, S. 1 ff
- Dendorfer, Renate/Lack, Jeremy, The Interaction Between Arbitration and Mediation: Vision v Reality, SchiedsVZ 2007, S. 195
- Dendorfer, Renate, Buchbesprechung: Walz (Hrsg) - Formularbuch Außergerichtliche Streitbeilegung 2006, in: MittBayNot 2007, S. 113
- Dendorfer, Renate, Mediating a Commercial Dispute - Interaction between Arbitration and Mediation, in: Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Kluwer Law 2007
- Dendorfer, Renate, Außergerichtliche Streitbeilegung durch Mediation - Modischer Unsinn, Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen oder sinnvolle Tradition?, in: Recht gestern und heute - Festschrift zum 85. Geburtstag von Richard Haase (Hrsg. Hengstl/Sick), Wiesbaden 2006
- Ditges, Thomas/Dendorfer, Renate, Unternehmernachfolge, AuA - Arbeit und Arbeits-recht 2005, S. 462
- Dendorfer, Renate, Supplement Mediation - Verbindung traditioneller Methoden der Streitentscheidung und Mediation - Verschwendung oder Ausweitung von Ressourcen?, in: Balancing of Interests, Liber Amicorum Peter Hay - Festschrift (Hrsg. Rasmussen-Bonne), Frankfurt/Main 2005, S. 99
- Dendorfer, Renate, Schenkung, Kommentierung der §§ 516 - 534 BGB, in: Dauner-Lieb/Langen, Anwaltkommentar zum BGB - Schuldrecht, Teilband 1: §§ 241 bis 610, Bonn 2005
- Dendorfer, Renate/Ponschab, Reiner, Mediation und Konfliktmanagement in der Arbeitswelt, in: Münchner Anwaltshandbuch Arbeitsrecht (Hrsg. Moll), München 2004
- Dendorfer, Renate, Med-Arb and Arb-Med Proceedings - Implications, Advantages and Disadvantages, Center for International Legal Studies, Yorkhill Law Publishing 2004
- Dendorfer, Renate, Aktives Telefonmarketing. Erfassung und Neubewertung der wettbewerbsrechtlichen Beurteilung unerbetener Werbeanrufe - unter Berücksichtigung europarechtlicher Entwicklungen und US-amerikanischer Regelungen, Dissertation, Peter-Lang-Verlag 2003
- Dendorfer, Renate, Die Abkehr von der Streithansel-Kultur - Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg durch alternative Streitbeilegung, Der Betrieb 2003, S. 135
- Dendorfer, Renate, Internationale Aspekte der Beschaffung, in: Pepels/Steckler, Handbuch für Rechtsfragen im Unternehmen, Band II: Einkaufsrecht, S. 165 - 202, Herne/Berlin 2002
- Dendorfer, Renate/Ponschab, Reiner, ConflictManagementDesign in Unternehmen, in: Haft/v. Schlieffen, Handbuch Mediation, S. 1022 - 1053, München 2002
- Dendorfer, Renate/Eckhard, Bernd, Der Mediator zwischen Vertraulichkeit und Zeugnispflicht, MDR - Monatsschrift Deutsches Recht 2001, S. 786 - 792
- Complete of the publications can be found under www.heussen-law.de.
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- DIS
- The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Arbitral Women, EUCON - European Institute for Conflict Management e.V.
- Centrale for Mediation
- DAJV - German-American Lawyers Association
- ABA - American Bar Association
- NBA - New York Bar Association
- IBA - International Bar Association
- CPR - International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (Panelist)
- CILS - Center for International Legal Studies (Honorary Fellow)
- Pro-Mediare, Budapest (Honorary Fellow).