Bälz, Kilian

Attorney at law/Partner, Amereller Rechtsanwälte (Berlin, Cairo, Tripoli)

• Business law in the Middle East
• projects
• M&A
• finance (including Islamic Finance)
• energy (focus renewable energies)
• general commercial (including agency and distribution
• joint ventures).

• 1993 First State Examination, Berlin, after studies at the universities of Freiburg, Damascus and Berlin (FU)
• 1994 Diploma in Middle East Studies, American University in Cairo
• 1995 LL.M., University of London
• 1997 Dr iur University of Berlin (FU)
• 1998 Second State Examination, Berlin
• 1998-1999 Assistant Professor University of Frankfurt, Department of Economic Law
• 1999 Admission to the bar
• 1999-2007 Attorney, Gleiss Lutz (Frankfurt), partner as from 2004, secondment to Herbert Smith (London) in 2002
• 2008-2010 Head of Interim Secretariat, RCREEE, Cairo
• from 2010 partner Amereller (based in Cairo, Berlin and Tripoli)

Numerous arbitrations as counsel under different rules (including ICC, ICSID, Swiss Rules, CRCICA, etc.) and ad hoc; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: commercial transactions, CISG, agency, financing agreements, insurance, German law, Iranian law, Swiss law, Yemeni law, Egyptian law, Libyan Law, various BITs.

• Insurance Law in the Arab Countries (1997)
• Chapters on Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Yemen, Mauritania and Sudan in Geimer/Schütze, International Enforcement of Claims in Commercial Matters
• chapter on Islamic Finance in Siebel (ed.), Project Finance and PPP (2008)
• numerous articles in academic and professional journals on Middle Eastern business law, arbitration, conflict of laws and international litigation (published in NJW, SchiedsVZ, RIW as well as international journals).

• German
• English
• Arabic
• French

• Bar Association of Berlin
• IBA
• DAV
• Ges AfrR
• GAIR
• DAVO
• DOS.