The Firm
We are a Berlin-based law firm that specializes in dispute resolution with a focus on arbitration. Our firm also offers comprehensive counseling services relating to domestic and international business transactions.
Our approach is personal, solution-oriented, and cost-efficient. Our team of multi-lingual lawyers come from various jurisdictions and maintain a worldwide and interdisciplinary network. We handle complex cross-border business disputes and transactions in Albanian, English, Finnish, French, German and Portuguese.
We regularly act as arbitrators, mediators and conciliators, and have been listed in various professional rankings for a good number of years, including The Best Lawyers in Germany and various Who’s Who Legal rankings.
Services
We offer a wide range of solutions for business disputes and transactions
Commercial Arbitration
Our team has extensive experience in commercial arbitration. We act both as arbitrators and counsel to represent clients in disputes under all major arbitration rules, including ICC, SCC, AAA, DIS, UNCITRAL, and others. Our lawyers have successfully represented clients or sat as arbitrators in high-stakes disputes involving complex legal and technical issues in a variety of industries, including energy, construction, telecommunications, and more.
Investment Arbitration
Our team has been representing both investors and States in high-profile disputes across a range of industries. More recently, we have been instructed by the Government of Kosovo in multiple investment matters, and have represented investors in proceedings involving China, Latvia, and Albania.
Litigation
We represent our clients in legal matters in state court proceedings in Germany with a focus on commercial and corporate law and in a large variety of business sectors. Through our international network, we also assist our clients in state court proceedings in other jurisdictions.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Our team supports our clients in exploring all available options for resolving disputes efficiently and to avoid a lengthy legal proceeding. Our key competences include negotiation, mediation, conciliation, and expert proceedings. One of the partners of the firm, Philipp Wagner, is a certified mediator and regularly serves as mediator with a focus on corporate and commercial conflicts.
International Contracts
Next to our dispute resolution practice, we advise businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to multinational corporations in a range of corporate and commercial law issues, including contract drafting and negotiation, compliance and governance. Our lawyers have extensive experience in complex M&A and private equity transactions.
Arbitration
Dispute Resolution
International Contracts
Benefits
We are experienced lawyers who provide personal and cost-efficient advice with an international mindset.
Personal Approach
Our clients choose us because personal trustful relationships matter to them and us. We are not just a group of experts, but of individuals who care and who take on the role of a trusted advisor when needed. We listen carefully before offering solutions and explore all reasonable strategic options with our clients in order to develop a coherent and predictable strategy for their legal matters.
International Mindset
Our team consists of lawyers with various cultural backgrounds and bar admissions, spanning from New York State through France, England & Wales and Germany to the Republic of Kosovo. Our training and experience in various jurisdictions provides our clients with three main benefits: access to legal advice in various national laws, a multi-dimensional approach to international legal matters, and comprehensive legal services in six different languages.
Cost-efficient solutions
We understand that legal fees and costs are always a sensitive issue. We offer reasonable hourly rates or individual package deals within the boundaries set by the applicable statutory rules for lawyers’ fees. Where possible and foreseeable, our approach is to put a price tag on our services for the various stages of a dispute or transaction.