Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Current activity
Professional focus
- Energy and infrastructure construction projects
- ocean technology (including oil&gas platforms, offshore wind farms, drill ships, swimming exploration platforms)
- public private partnerships
- project finance, drilling and tunneling projects
- knowledge of Swiss and English law
Areas of law
My career
- Law Studies (Universities of Frankfurt/M, Konstanz, First Legal State Examination 1991, Second Legal State Examination 1994
- Junior lawyer Petersen and Gravelle, Honolulu, Hawaii
- joined Boesebeck & Barz (a predecessor of Hogan Lovells) in 1994 and became partner in 2000
Arbitration experience
Acting as counsel in proceedings on a regular basis; subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: domestic and international energy and infrastructure construction projects
Publications
- Subcontracts and passing risks back-to-back, in Siebel/Röver/Knütel
- Legal Handbook Project Financing and Public Private Partnerships, 2008 (with Sina Glock)
- Dispute Resolution and legal advice by engineers: Permissibility under the German Legal Advice Act, ZfBR, 2003 (with Christian Knütel)
Languages
Memberships
- ICC Commission on International Arbitration
- DIS