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Rechtsanwalt & Avocat, Paris

Professional focus

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  • German law (contracts in general, distribution, agency, construction, competition, arbitration, international private law)
  • French law (obligations, competition, distribution, construction, arbitration, international private law)
  • Swiss and Austrian law (contracts in general, arbitration and international private law)
  • European law (competition, distribution)
  • International sales law (Vienna Convention), International procedural law, international arbitration law of various legal systems

Areas of law

My career

  • 1985 Law degree (Erstes Staatsexamen), University of Freiburg, Germany
  • 1986 Postgraduate Diploma on European Legal Studies (Zertifikat für Europäische Studien), University of Saarbruck, Germany
  • 1986 – 1987 Research Assistant, Centre d'Etudes Juridiques Françaises, University of Saarbruck
  • 1988 Bar Examination (Zweites Staatsexamen), Saarbruck, Germany
  • 1988/1989 Research Assistant, Institut de Droit Comparé, University of Paris
  • 1989 – 1992 Federal Officer, Federal Anti-Trust Office (Bundeskartellamt), Berlin
  • 1992 – 1998 Legal Counsel, ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris
  • 1998 – 2001 Senior Associate, BMH Avocats, Paris

Arbitration experience

As arbitrator: Chairman/Sole Arbitrator - ICC arbitration. As counsel: ICC arbitration; CMAP (Centre de Médiation et d'Arbitrage de Paris). Subject matter of arbitral proceedings: international sale, international distribution, international know-how transfer

Publications

  • Die Rolle des Sekretariats des Internationalen Schiedsgerichtshofes der ICC, in: Festschrift für Ottoarndt Glossner, 1994, S. 177-192
  • Das Jahr 1995 im Internationalen Schiedsgerichtshof der Internationalen Handelskammer (ICC), in: Recht und Praxis der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit 1996 (2. HJ), S. 2-8
  • Presenting Claims in ICC Arbitration, in: International Law Practicum, Vol. 10 / N° 1 (1997), p. 34
  • Vertragliche Beziehungen zwischen Parteien und der ICC sowie Schiedsrichtern und der ICC,in: DIS Materialien I/1997, S. 79
  • Quelques spécificités de la procédure d'arbitrage par rapport à la procédure judiciaire, in: Bulletin de l'Association luxembourgoise de l'arbitrage 1997, pages 4-18
  • The German Institution of Arbitration Issues New Arbitration Rules, in: 13 Mealey's International Arbitration Report (1998), p. 37 (with Stewart R. Shackleton)
  • German Developments in Arbitration, in: IBA Committee D Newsletter Vol. IV / N° 1 (1999)
  • Compensation et l'autorité de la chose jugée – La Cour suprême suédoise met "les pendules à l'heure"
  • Case note to Swedish Supreme Court Judgement of April 3, 1998; Esselte vs. Swedish State Pension Fund, in: Stockholm Arbitration Report 1999:2, p. 77, 99-104

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  • German
  • French
  • English

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