Biography: Arbitration

Dr Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, a major German law firm with 220 lawyers and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Zurich. The firm engages in general corporate and commercial, international arbitration and M&A.

Dr Kühn's area of practice is corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and international arbitration. Dr Kühn advised national and foreign clients in a large number of M&A transactions, inter alia, related to the energy, automotive, media (television), food production and service industries. Dr Kühn has handled numerous national and international arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel in respect to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, construction project contracts, turnkey plant contracts on behalf of German and mainly international corporate parties or clients.

Dr Kühn is a member of the board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS); past chairman of the arbitration committee of the International Bar Association; past member (1990 to 1996) of the ICC International Court Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Dr Kühn is the author of numerous books and articles. His publications include 'Commercial Arbitration in Germany', Arbitration World 2003 (Wolfgang Kühn and Ulrike Wiegel); 'Die CME Saga' SchiedsVZ (Wolfgang Kühn and Ulrike Wiegel); 'How to avoid conflicting Awards - The Lauder and CME Cases', Journal of World Investment & Trade (Wolfgang Kühn and Ulrike Gantenberg) February 2004; Liber Amicorum Professor Dr Peter Schlosser, April 2005; 'Common Law vs Civil Law Proceedings in Commercial Arbitration', Liber Amicorum Dr Lüer, 2008; 'Current Issues concerning the application of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards', Journal of International Arbitration 2008.

Dr Kühn was born on 21 December 1941.

Biography: Commercial Litigation

Dr Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, a major German law firm, currently employing 220 lawyers with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Zurich. Dr Kühn's area of practice is corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and international arbitration. Dr Kühn advised national and foreign clients in a large number of M&A transactions, inter alia related to the energy, automotive, media, food production and service industries. Dr Kühn has handled numerous national and international arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel in respect to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, construction project contracts, turnkey plant contracts on behalf of German and mainly international corporate parties or clients. Dr Kühn is a member of the board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS); past chairman of the arbitration committee of the International Bar Association; past member (1990 to 1996) of the ICC International Court Arbitration.

Dr Kühn is the author of numerous publications, Die CME Saga, SchiedsVZ; "How to avoid conflicting Awards - The Lauder and CME Cases", Journal of World Investment & Trade, February 2004; Liber Amicorum Professor Dr Peter Schlosser, April 2005; "Common Law vs Civil Law Proceedings in Commercial Arbitration", Liber Amicorum Dr Lüer, 2008; "The application of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards", Journal of International Arbitration 2008; German Chapter in Arbitration World, third edition 2010.