Languages  

active: German (native speaker); English
passive: Spanish

Professional Experience in International Commercial Arbitration (Experience as Chairman / Sole Arbitrator / Co-Arbitrator / Party Representative)

As arbitrator:
In total 53 arbitral cases

• as Chairman 8 proceedings, ICC, DIS and ad hoc
• as Co-arbitrator 42 proceedings, ICC, DIS and ad hoc
• as sole arbitrator 3 proceedings

As counsel:
in total 54 arbitral cases

• ICC, UNCITRAL, DIS, ad hoc

Professional Experience in China related Matters

No particular experience in PRC-related matters, but longterm experience in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand); former council member of the IBA Asia Pacific Forum; former country representative for Germany of the Inter Pacific Bar Association

Professional Experience in Certain Industries

Primarily banking and stock exchange law, warranty issues in technical industries (plant-building, cars, trains, aircraft, glass, construction industry), military procurement matters, telecommunication law, product liability law, company law, M&A law, PPP

Education 

1977
First Bar Exam, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1980
Second Bar Exam, Bavaria

1981
J.D., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1981
Admission to the Frankfurt Bar; associate with law firm Mueller Weitzel Weisner, Frankfurt am Main

1983/1984
Foreign Associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York

since 1984
Attorney at Hengeler Mueller, since 1986 as a partner

Further Special Information  

N/A 

Publications

Co-author of the IBA publication "Economic Consequences of Litigation Worldwide", Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-Boston, 1999;

Chapter on “DIS Schiedsgerichtsordnung” (Arbitration Rules of the German Institution of Arbitration), in Torggler (Ed.), Praxishandbuch Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (Practitioner’s Handbook Arbitration), Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2007

Memberships

DIS, DAV, IBA (former council member of the Asia Pacific Forum), IPBA (former country representative for Germany), ICC Germany, Swedish Arbitration Association, Swiss Arbitration Association