Career history      

Latest public appointments (Bavarian Ministry of Justice, Germany, 1975 - 2011):

• Judge (section president) - Court of Appeal (Oberlandesgericht) Munich, appeals in general and in banking & financial disputes (2003– 2011)

• Judge (section president) - Regional Court (Landgericht) Munich, national and international   commercial and company cases (1994 - 2003) 

 

Arbitration  

• Arbitrator (Chair) in >30 national and international, ad-hoc und institutional arbitrations 

• DIS–member (German Institution of Arbitration)

• Arbitrator and Chairman in numerous commercial arbitrations, national and international, ad-hoc and institutional (1998 - present)

 

Main Areas of Practice

• International Private Law and Procedure

• Company law (inter-company disputes, director’s responsibility, M&A, asset valuation)

• Commercial law (international sales, agency, supply of goods and services, construction)

• Investor Protection (class actions), Finance and Banking

• Criminal Law (also as background to tort litigation)

• Since 2012: Counsellor in major Arbitrations and litigations (share holder claims, setting aside procedures (arbitration award), international bank  loans) 

• Since 2012: Arbitrator in franchise and company law cases

• Since 2012: IRZ-Projects in Kurdistan (enforcement procedures) and Tunisia (training for lawyers and judges) 

• 2012 – 2017: Compliance work in Ethiopia (involving investigation in the UK)

 

Publications           

Various articles on company, commercial and international private law

Co-author: Saenger/Inhester, GmbHG (Limited Liability Company)

 

Teaching

• Courses in EU and German company law et alia for judges and advocates in Russia, Latvia, Syria, Egypt and Tunisia (1999–present) 

• Private international law for graduate students, Court of Appeal, Munich (1986 - 2006)

• Member of the board of examinations, 2nd grade law degree, Ministry of Justice, Munich (1994 - 2017)

 

Consultancy and project management

• Consultant to the government of Rwanda (Prosecutor General), Rebuilding of the legal system, based in Kigali (GTZ, German Agency for Technical Cooperation), cooperation with other donor countries and UNDP (9/1995 - 6/1996, 6/1998, 12/2002)

• Programme consultancy for the German Foundation for International Legal Co-operation (IRZ) in Kurdistan (2012- 2016)

• Programme evaluation, judicial defenders' project in Kigali/ Rwanda (Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen) (8/1997, 12/1999)

 

Professional affiliations

• International Bar Association (IBA)

• Company Law Association, Germany (VGR)

• German-Italian Law Association

 

Pro Bono

Compliance officer for the non-profit foundation Menschen für Menschen (integrated rural development in Ethiopia) till  05/2016

 

Education           

• 2nd grade law degree, Ministry of Justice, Munich (1975)

• 3-years of practical training (District Court, Regensburg; other government agencies; EU Legal Service, Brussels) (1972 - 1975)

• 1st grade law degree (honours), University of Regensburg, Germany  (1972)

• Gymnasium (Humanities), Jesuit College Stella Matutina, Feldkirch /Austria (1958 - 1966)

• Primary school in Calcutta / India (1952 - 1958)