Lörcher, Torsten

Since 1999 Rechtsanwalt, CMS Hasche Sigle, Cologne (formerly Gaedertz and Norton Rose Vieregge), partner since 2007

• National and international arbitration
• Corporate law
• M&A and Private Equity
• Construction law
• International trade law and contract law
• IT law

• 1994 First State Examination, Cologne
• 1995 - 1998 Dissertation und research associate at the Chair for International Business Law held by Professor Dr. Böckstiegel, University of Cologne
• 1997 - 1999 "Referendariat" at the Court of Appeal, Cologne
• 1999 Internship with the Arbitration Department of an international law firm in Paris
• Second State Examination, Admission to the Cologne Bar

As arbitrator: as chairman: 1 arbitration, DIS; as sole arbitrator: 5 arbitrations, DIS, ICC, Swiss Rule; as co-arbitrator: 14 arbitrations, DIS, ICC, ad-hoc; as counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings, e.g., DIS, ICC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, ad hoc; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Corporate law, post M&A disputes, construction law, national and international trade law and contract law, IT law

• Neue Verfahren der internationalen Streiterledigung in Wirtschaftssachen (New Procedures of the Settlement of International Economic Disputes), Peter Lang Verlag 2001
• Das Schiedsverfahren - national/international - nach neuem Recht (Domestic and International Arbitration Proceedings under German Law - together with Gino Lörcher and Heike Lörcher), C.F. Müller Verlag, 2001
• Nationales und internationales Schiedsverfahrensrecht (collection of legal texts on arbitration with Hubertus W. Labes), Beck-Verlag 1998
• Die Wahl der richtigen Verfahrensregeln (The choice of the proper arbitration rules - together with Klaus Sachs), Otto-Schmidt-Verlag 2008
• Commentary on §§ 1042 - 1051 of the German Civil Code (dealing with the conduct of arbitral proceedings) in: Böckstiegel/Kröll/Nacimiento, Arbitration in German (together with Klaus Sachs), Kluwer 2007
• Außergerichtliche Streiterledigung (Contribution concerning arbitration and ADR in IP disputes, in Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz with Hubertus W. Labes), Beck-Verlag 2005
• Organisation eines Ad-hoc-Schiedsverfahrens (Article concerning the organisation of ad-hoc proceedings with Gino Lörcher), in: SchiedsVZ 2005, pp. 179 et seq.
• ICSID-Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (Article on ICSID Arbitration), SchiedsVZ 2005, pp. 11 et seq.
• WTO Dispute Settlement and Arbitration, in International Arbitration Law Review, December 2003, pp. 203 et seq.
• Das neue deutsche Recht der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - Zur bevorstehen­den Neufassung des 10. Buchs der ZPO (§§ 1025 ff.) - (Article on the reform of the German Arbitration Law with Hubertus W. Labes), in: MDR 1997, p. 420 et seq.

• German
• English
• French

• DIS
• DIS40 (co-chair 2002 - 2007)
• LCIA
• LCIA YIAG (co-chair 2001 - 2005)
• ASA below 40
• Member of the International Arbitration Club, London