Practice Areas - International Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- International Trade
- Joint Ventures
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- International Litigation
- Arbitration Management
- Arbitrator
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| Contact Info | Telephone: +49 40 370 9050
Fax: +49 40 370 905 55
http://www.german-law.com
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| Mailing Address | Neuer Wall 71, 20354, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Education | University of Paris (Licence en droit, 1980; Lauréat du Concours Général, 1980; Maîtrise en droit, 1981); Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1983); University of Hamburg (First law degree, 1987; Dr. jur., 1994; Professor, 2011); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (Fellow, 2011) |
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| Admitted | 1984, New York; 1991, Germany |
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| Memberships | Space Law Committee (Liaison Unidroit); Hamburg Bar Organization (Board Member); Hamburg Bar Association; American Bar Association; CEAC (Chinese-European Arbitration Centre, Advisory Board); CELA (Chinese-European Legal Association, President); Expert to the European Commission in the Network of Stakeholders (Common Frame of Reference-Network); International Bar Association; Freunde des Hamburger Max-Planck-Institute e.V. (Friends of the Hamburg Max-Planck-Institute); Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung (German Comparative Law Society); German Institution of Arbitration (list of arbitrators); Harvard Club Hamburg (President); Inter-pacific Bar Association (Section on Arbitration); London Court of International Arbitration (List of Arbitrators); Working Group Competition and Deregulation of the German Federal Bar. |
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| Languages | German, English, French and Italian |
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| Born | Hamburg, Germany, July 13, 1958 |
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| Biography | Numerous books and publications since 1981 including issues of civil law; private international law, corporate law and European law, litigation and arbitration, including e.g., Co-Author of a Commentary on German Civil Code called Prütting/Wegen/Weinreich, "BGB-Kommentar", 6th edition 2011 (as author: "Surety Law" (§§ 765 et seq. BGB); "Bedding Contracts" (§§ 762 et seq. BGB); "Life Rental Agreements" (§§759 et seq. BGB), "Settlement Agreements" ("779 BGB"); as co-author various chapters on "International Contract and Company Law"); Co-author of a chapter on "Contract Conclusion, Contract Preparation and Organisation of Contract Execution" (in the "Hamburg Handbook on Export Law" — Hamburger Handbuch des Exportrechts -, edited by Paschke/Graf/Olbrich, Hamburg 2009; author of a Conflicts of Law Handbook including a detailed chapter on International Arbitration ("Internationales Privatrecht"), Co-author 5th edition 2010 (1st ed., 1989; 2nd ed., 1996; 3rd ed. 2004; 4th ed. 2007); Chapter 8, "Arbitration Agreements" (2005) and "Mediation" (2006), in: Handbook of IT-Contracts 2005 (co-author, written in German); "The Enlargement of the UNIDROIT Principles 2004 — A Useful Tool for the Drafting of Contracts and Arbitration Proceedings", RIW 2004, 721 et seq. (written in German); "Enforcement of American Arbitral Awards in Germany", International Litigation Quarterly (ILQ) 1, 219-239, 1985 (in English).
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| ISLN | 908779282 |
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