Specialization
Instruments
- Arbitration
- Litigation
Languages
- German
- English
Practice areas
- Commercial law
- Maritime law
- Insurance law
Industries
- Insurance
- Logistics and transportation
- Trade
Qualification
Experience
Extensive experience as counsel in German court and international arbitration proceedings (mainly under GMAA or German procedural arbitration rules (ZPO)) and also acting as arbitrator in such proceedings, with a focus on the maritime industry and insurance-related matters
Curriculum vitae
Since 2011: Founding Partner of Fleet Hamburg
Since 2011: Bar certified specialist lawyer on transport and freight-forwarding law
2006 - 2011: Lawyer in the maritime trade department of Taylor Wessing, Hamburg
2006: Doctoral thesis on the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
2003- 2006: Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen (Department for International Public Law and European Law); Lectures in China and Ethiopia
2003: Second State Exam, Hamburg
2001 – 2003: Legal Clerkship (“Referendariat”) at the Higher District Court of Hamburg, inter alia with a stage at the EU Commission in Brussels
1999 – 2001: Research Assistant to Prof. Wolfrum at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
1999: First State Exam, University of Heidelberg
1993- 1999: Studies of Law in Heidelberg, Germany and in Leeds, UK (1995/1996)
Memberships
German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transportecht (DGTR); Deutscher Verein für internationales Seerecht (DVIS); International Bar Association (IBA)
Contact
Address
Fleet Hamburg
Rechtsanwälte Solicitors Barrister
20457 Hamburg