Lawyer, Tax Advisor
Current activity
Professional focus
Construction/Engineering
Energy and power
Financing
M&A
Gas and Oil
Trade
Real Estate
Infrastructure and Transport
Information Technology (IT)
Joint Ventures/Consortia/Shareholder Agreements
Logistics
Maritime/Shipping
Accountancy/Taxation
Transportation
Areas of law
Adjudication/Dispute Boards
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Banking law
Construction law
Energy law
EU law
Family law
Corporate law
Commercial law
Insolvency law
Private international law
International economic law
IT law
Tenancy and lease law
Public law
Tax law
Law of associations and foundations
Procedural law
Constitutional law
Insurance law
Contract law
Public international law
My career
- 1978 Graduation in business studies ("Diplom-Kaufmann")
- 1980 Second state examination in law
- 1980-1988 Judge at the Hamburg Regional Superior Court ("Landgericht Hamburg", original and appellate jurisdiction in civil and criminal causes)
- 1987-1991 Assignment to the Federal Fiscal Court in Munich ("Bundesfinanzhof") as assistant judge
- since 1984 Monitoring of notaries
- 1988-2003 Judge at the Hamburg Fiscal Court "Finanzgericht Hamburg", 2003-2018 Presiding Judge at Finanzgericht Hamburg)
- since 1994 Arbitrator
- Court of Arbitration of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
- 1999-2004 Deputy Member, of the Hamburg Constitutional Court ("Hamburgisches Verfassungsgericht"
- 2004-2010 Member of Hamburgisches Verfassungsgericht
- 2000-2015 Examiner, since 2015 Presiding Examiner Second state examination in law
- since 2018 Lawyer, Tax Advisor.Activities abroad in Bulgaria, France, GreatBritain, Italy, Liechtenstein, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland.
Arbitration experience
As Arbitrator: Chairman, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in more than 50 international and national arbitration cases (ad hoc and various rules and institutions), Conciliation. Subjects of arbitration proceedings: International trade; accounting; acquisitions; banking; competition; construction; consultant contracts (management, sciences, software); corporate; financing; joint ventures; licensing; port-firms; public relation; real estate; stock investments; taxation; transport; transshipment; valuation of real estate and Enterprises; various products and branches of industry; more than 12 countries.
Publications
- Hundreds of judgements, awards, reviews and articles concerning tax and commercial law.
- Contributions to a textbook on procedural law and to a loose-leaf commentary on double taxation.
Languages
German
English
Memberships
- German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA)
- Hamburg Arbitration Circle (HAC)
- Logistics Court of Arbitration at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
- Dispute-Resolution Hamburg