Panel of Mediators

Affiliations / Mediation Panels

ADGMAC and CEDR Investor State Mediators Panel, CPR Distinguished Neutral

Areas of Mediation Expertise

Aviation & Airports, Banking & Finance, Commercial, Construction, Engineering & infrastructure, Corporate, Employment, Energy, Government & Investment, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Islamic, Life Sciences, Maritime & Transport, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Services, Real Estate, TMT & IP.

Countries Active in

Germany, UK

Other Mediation Experience

Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford, England, in the BCL/MJur class on Commercial Negotiation and Mediation.

Co-author and trainer of "Münchener Ausbildung zum Wirtschaftsmediator", one of the leading vocational mediator trainings in Germany.

Regularly listed in BestLawyers and WhosWhoLegal as a leading figure in international mediation (e.g. Thought Leader, Global Leader and National Leader in WWL 2022 for Commercial Mediaion).

Publications:

I. Monographs

"Mediation in der Wirtschaft" ("Business mediation") (together with Christian Duve and Horst Eidenmüller) (Köln: Otto Schmidt, 3rd ed. 2019)

"Der ADR-Vertrag – Vertragsrecht und vertragliche Gestaltung der Mediation und anderer alternativer Konfliktlösungsverfahren" ("The ADR Agreement – contract law and contract design of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings") (Heidelberg: Rechtund Wirtschaft, 2001)

II. Legal commentaries and textbooks

Chapter 3 ("Wege in die Mediation", "Roads into mediation") and chapter 6 ("Die Abschlussvereinbarung", "The closing agreement"), in: Eidenmüller/Wagner (eds.), "Mediationsrecht" ("The law of Mediation") (Köln: Otto Schmidt, 2015)

"Mediationsbegleitung durch Rechtsanwälte" ("Mediation Advocacy"), in: Klowait/Gläßer (eds.), "Kommentar zum Mediationsgesetz" ("Commentary on the German Mediation Act") (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014)

"Co-Mediation – Praktische und rechtliche Überlegungen" ("Co-mediation – practical and legal considerations"), in: Hengstl/Sick (eds.), "Recht gestern und heute – Festschrift zum 85. Geburtstag von Richard Haase" ("Law yesterday and today – Festschrift on occasion of the 85th birthday of Richard Haase") (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006)

III. Articles and other contributions

"Konflikte gehen nicht in Quarantäne – Lassen sich Mediations- und Schiedsverfahren auch online effizient führen? ("Conflicts don’t get quarantined – can mediation and arbitration proceedings be efficiently conducted also online?"), ZKM Blog of publishing house Otto Schmidt, 20 April 2020 (https://blog.otto-schmidt.de/mediation/2020/04/20/konfliktegehen-nicht-in-quarantaene-lassen-sich-mediations-und-schiedsverfahren-auch-onlineeffizient-fuehren/, last visited on 8 May 2020)

"Micro-Justice and New Law? ‘Swarm Arbitration’ as a Means of Dispute Resolution in Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts", in: Aggarwal/Eidenmüller/Enriques/Payne/van Zwieten (eds.), "Autonomous Systems and the Law" (Munich/Baden-Baden: C.H. Beck / Nomos, 2019), first published in the Law and Autonomous Systems Series on the Oxford Business Law Blog on 29 March 2018 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/03/micro-justiceand-new-law-swarm-arbitration-means-dispute-resolution, last visited on 8 May 2020)

"Brexit Negotiations - Process Proposals", in: Armour/Eidenmüller (eds.), "Negotiating Brexit" (Munich/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H. Beck / Hart / Nomos, 2017), first published in Brexit Negotiations Series on the Oxford Business Law Blog, 20 Apr 2017 (https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2017/04/brexit-negotiations-series-%E2%80%98process-proposals%E2%80%99, last visited on 8 May 2020)

“The PPP Negotiation Model: Problem, People, and Process" (together with Horst Eidenmüller), Oxford Business Law Blog, 17 March 2017 (https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-lawblog/blog/2017/03/ppp-negotiation-model-problem-people-and-process, last visited on 8 May 2020)

"Ein neues Modell der Wirtschaftsmediation" ("A new model for business mediation"), ZKM 2016, 168

“New York Convention II" to come? Enforcement of International Mediation Settlement Agreements", DisputeResolution 2/2015

"Mediation live", in: Eidenmüller (ed.), "Alternative Streitbeilegung – Neue Entwicklungen und Strategien zur frühzeitigen Konfliktbewältigung" ("Alternative Dispute Resolution – New developments and strategies of early conflict resolution", Munich: C.H. Beck, 2011

"Das Experiment - Was macht Heiner Geißler? Was ist das für ein Verfahren zu ,Stuttgart 21’? Für eine Klärung durch den Moderator selbst ist es nicht zu spät" ("The experiment – what is Heiner Geissler doing? What kind of procedure is ‚Stuttgart 21‘? It is not too late for a clarification by the moderator") (together with Horst Eidenmüller), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 November 2010

"Rechtsanwälte als Parteivertreter in der Wirtschaftsmediation" ("Lawyers as counsel in business mediation"), SchiedsVZ 2004, 80

"Institutionalisierung der Mediation im betrieblichen Konfliktmanagement" ("Institutionalisation of mediation within the conflict management of enterprises") (together with Horst Eidenmüller), Personalführung 3/2003, 20

"Die Mediationsvereinbarung – Vertragliche Regelungen zur Vereinbarung von Mediationsverfahren" ("The agreement to mediate – contractual provisions on mediation proceedings") (together with Andreas Nelle), ZKM 6/2002, 257

"Obligatorische Mediation – Selbstwiderspruch oder Reforminstrument" ("Compulsory mediation – contradictio in adjecto or instrument for reform") (together with Andreas Nelle), ZKM 2/2001, 56

Other Dispute Resolution Experience

Arbitration, Adjudication, Conciliation, Expert Witness