Partner, Baker Tilly Roelfs Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart
Current activity
Professional focus
- German and international corporate law
- private equity
- venture capital
- M&A
- German and international contract law
- computer law
- telecommunications
- arbitration
Areas of law
My career
- 1989 First State Examination, University of Tübingen
- 1989 - 1991 Academic assistant, University of Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Wernhard Möschel
- 1991 Juris doctor, University of Tübingen
- 1990 - 1993 Pupillage, District Court of Stuttgart
- 1993 Second State Examination, Ministry of Law Baden-Württemberg
- 1993 Admission to bar in Stuttgart
- 1994 Resident foreign lawyer in Singapore
- 1995 Examination for admission to the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
- 2000 State examination as translator for German and English
- 2000 Registered foreign lawyer in Singapore
- 1993 - 2007 practice as German attorney-at-law in the offices of Thümmel, Schütze & Partner, Stuttgart and Singapore, partner since 1998, member of the firm'
- s management committee since 2000, supervisory and advisory board memberships
- member of the board of directors of numerous companies in Singapore
- 2008 - 2015 Partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart
- since August 2015 Partner, Baker Tilly Roelfs Rechtsanwlatsgesellschaft mbH
- certified commercial mediator (cvm) and trainer (FGG Group)
Arbitration experience
As arbitrator: 10 proceedings, DIS and ICC (sole arbitrator). As counsel: More than 40 proceedings, ad-hoc, CIETAC, DIS, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, VIAC. Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: International contract law, German and international corporate law, international investment law, intellectual property law
Publications
- various publications on international investment and commercial law, in particular on the law of Singapore and Malaysia
- annotation to SIAC arbitration rules in Schütze (ed.), Institutional Arbitration (2010)and subsequent editions in German and English
Languages
- German
- English (state certified and sworn translator)
Memberships
- DIS
- DAV
- DSJV
- IBA
- ICCA
- IPBA
- SIArb