Dispute Resolution

Members of our German Dispute Resolution Group have acted as arbitrators, counsel and secretary in ad hoc arbitration proceedings as well as institutional arbitration proceedings under the rules of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Court of International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC - Vienna Rules), the Swiss Chambers of Commerce (Swiss Rules), the Arbitration Rules of the International Center of the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and that Center’s Additional Facility Rules.

The firm’s German Dispute Resolution Group has also been engaged in numerous cases regarding the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards as well as the formulation of complex dispute resolution agreements.

Members of our German Dispute Resolution Group also give lectures on international dispute resolution at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences as well as the Humboldt Uni-versity Berlin and keep further fruitful relations with academia by sponsoring and co-organizing seminars and other events in the field of international dispute resolution.

Key members of the German Dispute Resolution Group are.

Alexander Foerster (Partner, Frankfurt),
Swedish Advokat as well as German Rechtsanwalt

Friederike Stumpe, LL.M. (Stockholm, Sweden) (Associate, Frankfurt),
DIS40 Frankfurt Regional Coordinator

Annika von Chevallerie (Specialist Counsel, Berlin)

Thilo Schulz (Associate, Berlin),
Specialist Solicitor for Building Law (Fachanwalt für Bau- und Architektenrecht)

Dr. Jens Engelmann-Pilger, LL.M. (Canterbury, New Zealand) (Associate, Berlin)

Recent cases

Cases acting as counsel:

• Counsel of a large European (Security) Company against another large European (Security) Company in a Post M&A Dispute (Share Deal – financial and other guarantees, working capital adjustment issues)
  
  
• Counsel of a major European supplier of industrial door and logistics systems in German court disputes on unfair competition as well as trademark and patent infringement issues
  
  
• Counsel of a Scandinavian pharmaceutical research company in a German court dispute on unfair competition
  
  
• Counsel of a Scandinavian Bank in German court proceedings against an insolvency receiver
  
  
• Counsel of a large German energy company against a Swiss party in SCC arbitration proceedings on an energy supply agreement
  
  
• Counsel of a large Scandinavian energy company in an investment dispute (ICSID) against the Federal Republic of Germany, value approx. 1,4 billion EUR
  
  
• Counsel of a Scandinavian textile company in a dispute on the termination of an agency agreement (termination reasons, commission claims, compensation claims, damages)
  
  
• Counsel of a large Scandinavian energy company against German energy utility in German court proceedings on a district heat supply agreement, approx. MEUR 34
  
  
• Counsel of the German subsidiaries of a Swedish property investor company against a German Seller in several German court and DIS arbitration proceedings arising from a large real estate transaction (purchase price adjustment and contractual penalties)
  
  
• Counsel of a real estate development project company in a corporate dispute before German courts (challenge of a shareholders‘ resolution regarding exclusion of minority shareholder)
  
  
• Counsel of a Scandinavian construction company regarding the enforcement of an arbitral award in Germany against a German company, including preliminary enforcement and execution measures

Cases acting as arbitrator:

• Party-appointed arbitrator in ICC arbitration proceedings between two chemical industry companies
  
  
• Party-appointed arbitrator in arbitration proceedings administered under the Vienna Rules between an Estonian and a German party regarding a foreign construction project
  
  
• Sole arbitrator in ICC arbitration proceedings between a Finnish and a Portuguese party regarding a distribution agreement
  
  
• Chairman in DIS arbitration proceedings on a contractual dispute between two German automobile industry companies
  
  
• Party appointed arbitrator in an ad hoc arbitration in Stockholm between an Austrian trading company and a Chinese car manufacturer
  
  
• Party appointed arbitrator in an ad hoc arbitration in Germany between a German insurance company and a German logistic company