1. General Professional Experience in Litigation and Arbitration
My professional experience with major international and business law firms specialized in litigation includes:
- Commercial litigation and arbitration related to foreign jurisdictions including the US, Great Britain and several other European countries
- Litigation concerning claims for damages resulting from international white collar crime (capital market related, tax related)
- Capital market disputes
- Litigation and arbitration concerning major development and construction projects (power plant, nuclear-medical facility, chemical plant, software development)
- Litigation regarding compensatory claims arising from a trade tax group
- Litigation concerning compliance violations
- Counseling on questions of conflict-of-law and civil procedure in several domestic and international arbitration proceedings
2. Professional Experience before the Federal Supreme Court
As an associate of a lawyer at the Federal Supreme Court, I worked on approximately 280 appeals on points of law before the Federal Supreme Court. Following my admission to the Bar of the Federal Supreme Court in October 2013, I have handled proceedings within the jurisdictions of all Civil Divisions of the Federal Supreme Court. My focus is on commercial disputes, corporate disputes and disputes related to foreign jurisdictions and/or arbitration proceedings.
In particular:
- Disputes regarding recognition and declaration of enforceability of international judgments
- Disputes regarding arbitration proceedings including recognition or declaration of enforceability of arbitral awards
- Disputes arising from development and construction projects
- Disputes arising from major real estate projects and from major commercial leases
- Disputes arising from capital investments
- Corporate law disputes
- Disputes regarding trade marks
- Disputes arising from insolvency proceedings, representation of insolvency trustees
- Disputes involving European and German antitrust law