Current activity

Universitätsprofessor

Professional focus

Automotive Sector
Banking and Finance
Construction/Engineering
Compliance
Energy and power
Financing
M&A
Gas and Oil
Trade
Real Estate
Infrastructure and Transport
Investment Disputes
Logistics
Metals and Mining
Project management
Maritime/Shipping
Transportation
Insurance
Distribution and franchise

Areas of law

Banking law
Construction law
Civil law
Common law
Energy law
Inheritance law
Corporate law
Commercial law
Property law
Insolvency law
Private international law
International economic law
Tenancy and lease law
Conciliation
Procedural law
Insurance law
Contract law

My career

  • 1980 Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen, Münster
  • 1982 Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen, Hamburg
  • 1984 Promotion, Münster
  • 1988 Habilitation, Hamburg
  • 1989 Berufung an die Universität Bonn
  • 1990 Berufung an die Universität Hamburg
  • 1992-1998 Richter am Oberlandesgericht Hamburg
  • 2010/2911 und 2015/2016 Robert S. Campbell Visiting Fellow am Magdalen College, Universität Oxford.
  • 2019-2022 Professor for International Insolvency Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2020-2023 Senior Research Fellow, Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, Oxford
  • 2022-2024 Visiting Professor Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Arbitration experience

30 nationale und internationale Schiedsverfahren, davon 15 als Vorsitzender (Streitwerte bis 167 Mio. €); u. a. CEAC, DIS, GMAA, Handelskammer Hamburg, VIAC; Gegenstände der Schiedsverfahren: Anlagenbau, Gesellschaftsrecht, Insolvenzrecht, M&A, Versicherungsrecht, Vertragsrecht, Vertriebsrecht.

Publications

  • Grundzüge des Zwangsvollstreckungsrechts (Basics of Enforcement Proceedings), 1984
  • Der Vergleich (The Compromise), 1988
  • Werbung im Programm (Unfair Competition in the Media), 1988
  • Freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit (Voluntary Jurisdiction), 2. Aufl. 2002
  • Zahlungsverkehr in der Insolvenz (Payments and Insolvency Law), 2002
  • Handbuch des Insolvenzanfechtungsrechts (Handbook on Transactions Avoidance Law), 2006
  • Einführung in das Insolvenzrecht (Introduction to Insolvency Law), 10. Aufl. 2021
  • Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs (General Part of the Civil Code), 4. Aufl. 2016
  • Die Rechtsstellung des Insolvency Practitioner (The legal position of the Insolvency Practitioner), 2011
  • Rescuing Companies in England and Germany, Oxford University Press 2012
  • European Cross-border Insolvency Law, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • Principles of Cross-Border Insolvency Law, Intersentia, 2017
  • Die Verwalterauswahl, 2018.Mitarbeit in Kommentaren: BGB (Staudinger), GmbHG (Bork/Schäfer), InsO (Kübler/Prütting/Bork), ZPO (Stein/Jonas)
  • Corporate Insolvency Law, 2020
  • über 300 Publikationen zum Bürgerlichen Recht, Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht sowie zum Verfahrensrecht, einschließlich Insolvenz- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht.

Languages

German
English

Memberships

  • DIS
  • CEAC
  • ECAA
  • GMAA
  • HAC
  • GCAC

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