Biography: Arbitration

Professor Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler (LLM, FCIArb) practises law as a member of the Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof (of which there are only 41, at the Bar of the German Federal Court of Justice).

He has acted as chairman, arbitrator and counsel in numerous international and national arbitrations. Recent disputes have involved M&A, telecommunications, government contracts (public procurement), foreign investment, international trade, privatisation, joint ventures and construction contracts. He also represents clients before the Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice).

Mr Raeschke-Kessler is honorary professor at the University of Cologne, lecturing on International Arbitration. He is fluent in German, English and French.

He has been a member of the IBA working groups on the 1999 IBA Rules of Evidence in International Arbitration, their 2010 review, and on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration. He is vice president of the German branch of the International Law Association, board member of the German Arbitration Institution (DIS), a member of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration and an observer at Unidroit in Rome, Italy.

Some of his recent publications in English include; The International Arbitration Review, 2nd ed., Chapter 9, Germany, S. 106 ff; Discovery in International Commercial Arbitration? (Böckstiegel/Berger/Bredow); The Taking of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration, Carl Heymanns Verlag 2010; The International Arbitration Review, chapter 9, Germany; Witness Conferencing in The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration (Newman/Hill, second edition, 2008); and Corruption in Foreign Investment – Contracts and Dispute Settlement between Investors, States, and Agents in The Journal of World Investment & Trade, vol 9, No. 1 (2008).