Specialization
Instruments
- Arbitration
- Litigation
Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
Practice areas
- Antitrust law
- Bank and capital market law
- Competition law
- Commercial law
- Construction law
- Corporate law (M&A)
- Distribution law
- Intellectual property law
- Maritime law
- Real estate law
Industries
- Automotive
- Bank and financial services
- Consumer products and retail
- Energy and infrastructure
- Engineering
- Media, advertising and telecommunication
- Public policy
- Real estate
- Technology
- Logistics and transportation
- Trade
Qualification
Experience
Arbitrator or counsel in more than 120 national and international arbitral proceedings; in more than 40 proceedings as sole arbitrator or chairman of the arbitral tribunal (ad hoc, ICSID, DIS, ICC, LCIA, SCC, GMAA, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL).
Curriculum vitae
- 1965 - 1971
Legal Studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Bordeaux and Strasbourg - 1972 - 1973
Research Associate at the Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law of the University of Hamburg - 1973 - 1974
Internship at Directorate General IV (Competition) of the EC Commission in brussels - 1977
Dr. jur. (LLD) in European Antitrust Law - 1981 - 1990
Lecturer in Corporate Law at the University of Hamburg - since 1980
Partner of Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and its predecessors
Memberships
Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS)
Publications
Commentary on the DIS Arbitration Rules in Schütze (ed.), Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, 2nd edition 2010.