Lawyer, Attorney-at-Law (New York)
Licensed Specialist in International Commercial Law

Main Areas of Practice / Expertise

• International Commercial Law, in particular cross-border contractual arrangements such as cooperation, R&D and distribution agreements, license agreements, technology transfer, etc.;
• Commercial and Corporate law, in particular cross-border acquisitions and sales of companies, Joint Ventures
• Arbitration Proceedings before national and international arbitration tribunals (legal representation in such proceedings as well as constant work as arbitrator or chairman of arbitration tribunals)
• Product Liability Law
• D&O Liability Issues, in particular representation of Board Members and Managing Directors
• Industry experience, in particular in the automotive, mechanical and plant engineering sectors
• Speaker at external and in-house seminars, in particular on International Commercial Law

Career

• Foundation of Nockelmann Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB in 2016
• Deputy Chairman of the Expert Committee for International Commercial Law at the Hamm Bar Association
• Partner at Aderhold Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
• Partner at Spieker, Holtermann pp. Dortmund (today Spieker & Jaeger Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB), establishment of the international department
• Doctorate in EU antitrust procedural law
• Licensed lawyer since 1990
• Bar Exam in state of New York and admission as an Attorney at Law (New York)
• Legal Clerkship at the District Courts of Bochum and Dortmund
• Worked at the Chairs of Private International Law, Commercial and Business Law, Competition Law and European Law at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Studies of Law in Bochum (specialising in private international law and commercial law)
• Trained as a Diplom-Verwaltungswirt with subsequent employment in property and real estate management at Postbank Dortmund

Professional Memberships

• 1992 – 2013 President of the Canadian-German Lawyers’ Association
• President (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) of the Graf Recke Foundation (Düsseldorf)
• Author of Letter of Intent and Non-Disclosure Agreement in Beck’sche Online Formulare Internationales Handels- und Vertriebsrecht (ed. Piltz/Lewis)
• Co-author of the country section “Canada” in the “Handbuch des internationalen GmbH-Rechts” (Zerb-Verlag)
• Practice Group for International Business Law in the German Bar Association
• German Institution of Arbitration e.V. (DIS)
• ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) Germany Section
• Licensing Executives Society