Current activity

Lawyer, Assistant Professor

Professional focus

Areas of law

My career

  • Since 2007 Visiting Lecturer, Universities of Marburg, Heidelberg, Kaliningrad, Jena and EBS
  • 2004-2007 Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Practice Group International Arbitration, Frankfurt

Arbitration experience

Chairman: 20 arbitrations (ICC, DIS, Hugarian Chamber, Frankfurt Chamber, ad hoc); Party-appointed Arbitrator: 15 arbitrations (ICC, DIS, SL Bau, ad hoc); Sole arbitrator: 2 arbitrations (ICC, DIS); Secretary of the Tribunal: 2 arbitrations (ad hoc investment arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules, WIPO); expert: 2 arbitrations, counsel: 5 arbitrations (ICC, SIAC, ad hoc); Chairman of the German Red Cross Federal Arbitral Tribunal Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Post M&A, construction, international sales and service contracts, renewable energies, commercial and corporate law, investment treaties

Publications

  • Monographs and editorships:
  • Kreindler/Wolff/Rieder, Commercial Arbitration in Germany
  • Wolff, New York Convention Commentary
  • Kreindler/Schäfer/Wolff, Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Kompendium für die Praxis [Arbitration, Practitioners' Compendium]
  • Meilicke/Graf von Westphalen/Hoffmann/Lenz/Wolff, Partnerschaftsgesellschaftsgesetz [German Law on Partnerships]
  • Wolff, Der drittbestimmte Verein [The Society Governed by a Third Party]
  • Commentaries:
  • Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts [Munich Handbook on Corporate Law], vols. 2 (Limited Partnership, Dormant Partnership), 3 (Limited Liability Company), 5 (Association, Private Law Foundation)
  • Beuthien, Genossenschaftsgesetz [Cooperative Societies Act]
  • Messerschmidt/Voit, Privates Baurecht [Private Construction Law]
  • Ganten/Jansen/Voit, Beck'scher VOB- und Vergaberechts-Kommentar, VOB Teil B
  • Arroyo, Arbitration in Switzerland
  • Articles in the areas of corporate law, law of cooperatives, civil law, civil procedure and arbitration

Languages

Memberships

  • DIS (Member of the Board of Directors)
  • ASA
  • CIArb (Fellow)
  • VGR (Corporate Law Association)
  • German Construction Law Association
  • ILA

Further informations

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