López Wismer, Jacqueline

Founding partner of Kniprath Lopez, Attorneys for Complex Disputes, Berlin, Germany, a law firm specialised in alternative dispute resolution with a particular focus in commercial and investment arbitration for clients in Germany, Spain and Latin America. Jacqueline has worked on both, investor-state and commercial arbitrations in sectors such as plant construction, metallurgy, transportation, etc. under a variety of institutional or ad-hoc rules.

• Since 2022: Also admitted as a lawyer in Spain, Barcelona Bar Association
• 2022: ESADE - Legal Tech Course and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - Assessment Introduction to Construction Adjudication
• 2021: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
• 2019-2020: ESNECA Business School - Postgraduate Expert in Spanish Commercial Law
• 2017-2018: ESADE Faculty of Law, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, España: Máster en Derecho Internacional de los Negocios (Master in Inernational Business Law)
• Since 2015: Partner, Kniprath Lopez, Attorneys for Complex Disputes, Berlin, Germany.
• 2012-2015: Attorney-at-Law, Herfurth & Partner Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Hanover, Germany.
• 2012: 2nd German state exam in law (i.e., bar exam), Frankfurt am Main, Law office Marco Legal, Barcelona.
• 2010: 1st German state exam in law, University of Göttingen, area of specialisation: Corporate law and Contractual design.

Several substantive commercial and investor-state arbitration procedures as party counsel (regarding commercial, construction, energy, metallurgy, according to the arbitration rules of the ICC, DIS, VIAC, Swiss Rules, or ad-hoc rules (e.g., UNCITRAL, national civil procedure rules). Arbitration procedures as arbitrator (DIS an ad-hoc rules).

• Biblioteca de Arbitraje del Estudio Mario Castillo Freyre. Jorge Luis Collantes González, Coordinador. Hablando con ellas. Conversaciones con veinticuatro mujeres protagonistas del arbitraje.

• German Institution for Arbitration (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - DIS)
• ICC Spain
• ICC Germany
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
• Spanish Arbitration Association (CEA)
• German-Spanish Lawyers’ Association (DSJV).

Speaking Engagements: 20.02.2023: Congreso Internacional de Arbitraje organizado por la Biblioteca de arbitraje "El papel de las generaciones jóvenes en el arbitraje internacional" (Panelist). 19.01.2023: Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) "Proposals for reform of investment arbitration in UNCITRAL. Are they suitable or do thes go too far?" (Moderator). 13.12.2022: Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) "Venue of arbitration: Germany - A practical guide with a focus on spanish-speaking parties and arbitrators" (Moderator). 08.06.2022: Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) "Mediation and its use in practice" (Moderator). 19.05.2022: Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) "A PORSCHE OR A 2CV? Conflict prevention and resolution - start-ups their needs and constraints" (Moderator). 28.10.2021: Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) "More effective management of arbitration proceedings - the German approach under discussion" (Moderator).