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…
INTRODUCTION
Germany is considered as one of the most arbitration friendly jurisdictions in Europe if not world-wide, not least because the 1998 arbitration law is almost a verbatim translation of…
In June 2017, the Fourth European Anti-Money Laundering Directive (the "Fourth EU Directive" (EU) 2015/849) was transposed into German law. The regime was further tightened, its scope was extended…
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…