Siegfried H Elsing
Orrick Haus
Heinrich-Heine-Allee 12
40213
Biography: Arbitration
Siegfried H Elsing, a partner in the Düsseldorf office of Orrick Hölters & Elsing and senior partner for Germany, is a member of the firm's International Arbitration and Corporate Groups.Mr Elsing has more than 30 years' experience in litigation and international arbitration serving as counsel, party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator or chairman in more than 140 international arbitrations, to include ad hoc proceedings (together with those under UNCITRAL Rules) as well as arbitral proceedings under the auspices of many leading arbitral institutions (DIS, HCCI, HKIAC, ICC, SCC, VIAC and others). Mr Elsing advises frequently in corporate, financing, licensing, construction, joint venture and M&A transactions both domestically and internationally.
In 2011, Mr Elsing's designation to serve on the Panel of Conciliators for the Administrative Council of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) was announced by Robert B Zoellick, President of the World Bank and Chairman of the Administrative Council ICSID. He is also a member of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association, a former chairman of the International Bar Association on the mediation committee (2007 to 2008) and the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit eV (Germany).
Mr Elsing graduated from Münster Law School (Dr jur) and holds an LLM from Yale Law School. He is a frequent lecturer and author on the topics of international arbitration and comparative law and is honorary professor at Heinrich-Heine-University, Faculty of Law, Düsseldorf.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, which operates in Germany as Orrick Hölters & Elsing, is a global law firm with over 1,100 attorneys in 23 offices in Europe, Asia and North America.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Arbitration Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.
Biography: Commercial Litigation
Siegfried H Elsing, a partner in the Düsseldorf office of Orrick Hölters & Elsing and senior partner for Germany, is a member of the firm's international arbitration and corporate groups.Mr Elsing has more than 30 years of experience as litigation and international arbitration counsel, having represented private investors, international companies, sovereign states and state agencies in a wide range of significant and complex cross-border disputes. He is admitted as an attorney in both Germany and New York and acted as counsel in more than 100 appellate court cases. He also served as counsel, party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator or chairman in more than 140 international arbitrations, to include ad hoc proceedings, as well as arbitral proceedings under the auspices of leading arbitral institutions (DIS, HCCI, HKIAC, ICC, SCC, VIAC and others).
Mr Elsing appeared as a legal expert witness in both the German courts (on US law matters) and the US and UK courts (on German law matters) and before foreign law-making institutions. Mr Elsing's experience extends to disputes involving, inter alia, M&A transactions, investments, construction contracts, loan agreements and other financing arrangements, joint ventures, licensing agreements and distributorship agreements.
Mr Elsing graduated from Münster Law School (Dr jur) and holds an LLM from Yale Law School. He is a frequent lecturer and author on the topics of international arbitration and comparative law and is honorary professor at Heinrich-Heine-University, Faculty of Law, Düsseldorf.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, which operates in Germany as Orrick Hölters & Elsing, is a global law firm with over 1,100 attorneys in 23 offices in Europe, Asia and North America.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Commercial Litigation Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.
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