Zeller, Harald

Managing Partner of Zeller Associates GmbH, Hamburg ; Independent Consultant & Arbitrator

• Commercial and legal disputes in Reinsurance & Insurance
• Trade
• Shipping
• Transportation and the Cruise Industry

• since 2019 (Independent) Consultant,
• 2018 – 1997 Founder & Managing Partner of Zeller Associates Group
• 1997 – 1983 Munich Re (Tty, Fac and Claims)
• 1985 Dr iuris (Thesis in Marine Insurance Law) (summa cum laude)
• 1976 Licensing as (Full Foreign Going) Master (Merchant Marine)
• 974 Economic Engineer in Marine Transportation / Nautical Officer’s Chief Mate Certificate (both with distinction)
• 1962 - 2013 Wide-spread practical seafaring experience on ships of various types and sizes in coastal and international trade

As arbitrator: a total of 7 proceedings As chairman: 3 proceedings As co-arbitrator: 4 proceedings As internal counsel: numerous cases Subject of proceedings: Insurance/Reinsurance disputes (incl. M&As, Run-Offs, DDs); maritime legal and commercial issues (incl. Shipbuilding, Cruise Consequential Losses, Charter Parties and General Average)

• The Legal Status of Refugees at Sea 1982 (in German), The Cover of Liability Risks in Marine Insurance 1985 (Dissertation at the University of Hamburg - in German
• summa cum laude), A Classification of Charter Parties 1986 (in German), Containerization 2000 (published by Munich Re), Charterers‘ Liability Ins. 2007 (in German
• co-author Dr. Jan. T. Eichhorn), Problems of State Supervision in Marine Defence / Legal Costs Insurance 2011 (in German), The New German Law on the Arrest of Ships 2013 (in German)

• English
• German

• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), Genf
• German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA), Hamburg
• Hamburg Arbitration Circle (HAC), Hamburg
• Deutsch-Russische Juristenvereinigung (DRJV), Hamburg
• Nautischer Verein (DNV), Hamburg
• The Nautical Institute (NI), London