Schmidt-Ahrendts, Nils

Attorney-at-Law/ Managing Partner

• Since 2011 Attorney-at-Law with HANEFELD, Hamburg
• 2009-11 CMS Hasche Sigle (Member of the Litigation and Arbitration Department headed by Dr. Klaus Sachs)
• 2007–09 Legal traineeships including work experience with Hengeler Muller, Berlin and the German Embassy in Cambodia
• 2007 Internship with the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris
• 2005-07 Research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law and Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.), University of Freiburg
• 1999-05 Studies of law, Universities of Freiburg and Grenoble (France)

Chairman, Sole Arbitrator and Party-Appointed Arbitrator in more than 35 domestic and international arbitration proceedings (ICC, Swiss Rules, VIAC, DIS, DIA, FAI and ad hoc) with amounts in dispute up to EUR 125 million as well as representation of domestic and foreign companies in ICC, DIS, SCC and LCIA as well as in ad hoc arbitration proceedings with amounts in dispute up to EUR 350 million.

• Lecturer for International Arbitration and CISG at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
• Co-founder of the International Dispute Resolution Master and lecturer for international arbitration at the Humboldt-University of Berlin
• Dispute resolution by Dispute Adjudication Boards - practical advice on the structuring and conduct of proceedings (in German), in: BauR 2020, pp. 1385 et seq
• Commentary of Articles 25-27 and 71-73 CISG (in German), in: Beck Online Commentary on the CISG (the leading German online commentary), 2020
• The BGH’s fine adjustments as to the consequences of the violation of disclosure obligations for setting aside and enforcement procedures (in German), in: SchiedsVZ 2020, pp. 35 et seq.
• Commentary of Articles 74-77 CISG, in: Brunner/Gottlieb (ed.), Commentary on the UN Sales Law (CISG), 2019
• Country Report: Germany, in: Weigand/Baumann (ed.), Practitioners Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration, 3rd ed., 2019
• The Consequences of the Non-Disclosure of Conflict of Interest on the Enforceability of Awards: The German Stance, in: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2019

• German Arbitration Institute (DIS)/DIS40
• ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
• Hamburg Arbitration Circle (HAC)
• ICC Commission's Task Force on "Maximizing the Probative Value of Witness Evidence"

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