The new arbitration rules of the German Institution of Arbitration (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - “DIS”) will enter into force on 1 March 2018 (“DIS Rules 2018”).
It is the first…
The situation that the Bundesgerichtshof was recently faced with in a case is not uncommon: whilst a state court still reviews an arbitral tribunal's preliminary ruling on its competence, the…
Claudia Pechstein, 44, is a well-known speed skater – she has won 60 medals at international championships and at the Olympics since 1992. However, the media coverage on her seven year juridical…
Drafted by HSF Partner, Mathias Wittinghofer, and Associates, Tilmann Hertel and Nils Kupka, from HSF’s Frankfurt office
In 1999 Germany adopted the UNCITRAL Model law on International Commercial…
In an order dated 28 January 2014 (file number III ZB 40/13), the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, the "Court") clarified that an arbitral award can only be set aside in recognition…
