Schäfer, Jan K.

Since 2012 – Partner, International Arbitration, King & Spalding LLP, Frankfurt

• Party representation and acting as arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, in particular relating to post M&A, license, construction cases and foreign investment disputes
• recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments
• drafting and advising on complex arbitration clauses and BIT structuring
• and taking of cross-border evidence.

• 1994 Certificate in Comparative Law, University of London, SOAS
• 1997 First State Law Exam, University of Freiburg i. Br.
• 1997 Erasmus Student, University of Utrecht
• 1999 Master of Laws (LL.M.), National University of Singapore
• 2001 Second State Law Exam, Dusseldorf
• 2001 Research Fellow, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague
• 2001 - 2007 Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt
• 2007 - 2011 Counsel, Allen & Overy LLP, Frankfurt

As arbitrator: Chair (DIS: 16; ICC: 2; TAMARA: 1; Ad hoc: 3); Co-Arbitrator (DIS: 8; ICC: 2; NAI: 1; SCC: 1; SIAC: 2; ad hoc: 2); Sole (DIAC: 2; DIS: 3; ICC: 7; SCC: 1), Expert determination and court-appointed expert, each in one case. As counsel: in a total of 42 arbitration proceedings under the rules of DIS, ICC, ICSID, NAI and ad hoc proceedings; UNCITRAL, CH and the German Civil Code. Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Post M&A disputes (sale price adjustment, guarantees); plant construction (turn-key); foreign investment, BIT and ECT; contract law; product liability; licence agreement; patent; price adaptation (gas, metals and other commodities), delivery of goods. Among others, German, Dutch, Swiss substantive law. German, Swiss, Austrian, English, Dutch, Swedish, French and Singapore arbitration laws.

• More than 30 publications on arbitration, including „Das Mandat als Prozessvertreter in deutschen Schiedsverfahren“, NJW 2015, pp. 3398-3404
• „Alternatives to Investment Arbitration“ in M. Bungenberg et al. (eds.), International Investment Law, Munich 2015, pp. 1186-1211
• „Focusing a Dispute on the Dispositive Legal and Factual Issues, or How German Arbitrators Think – An Introduction to a Traditional German Method“, B-arbitra, 2/2013, pp. 107-118
• Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - Kompendium für die Praxis, Betriebs-Berater Handbuch, Frankfurt 2006, 457 + XLI Seiten (Co-author)
• „Leaving the Colonial Arbitration Laws Behind: Southeast Asia’s Move Into the International Arbitration Arena“, Arbitration International, 16 (3), 2000, pp. 297-332 (The 2000 Gillis Wetter Prizewinner of the LCIA)

• German (native)
• English (able to conduct arbitral proceedings)
• Dutch (fully fluent)
• French (fluent)

• DIS
• DIS40 (co-chair DIS40, 2006-2010)
• BRAK (Civil Litigation- and Europe-Committees)
• ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
• ASA
• ASIL
• CEPANI
• DAA (board member)
• IBA
• ICCA
• and LCIA. Arbitrator lists: BANI, HKIAC, Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commmerce and WIPO.