Klaus Peter Berger

Professor Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, LL.M.

Positions:

Full ten­ure pro­fess­or for domest­ic and inter­na­tion­al private and com­mer­cial Law, com­par­at­ive law, private inter­na­tion­al law and bank­ing law; Dir­ect­or, Insti­tute for Bank­ing Law; founder and dir­ect­or of the Cen­ter for Transna­tion­al Law (CENTRAL), Uni­ver­sity of Cologne Fac­ulty of Law, Ger­many (since 2002)

Full ten­ure pro­fess­or for inter­na­tion­al busi­ness law and dir­ect­or of the Insti­tute for Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Law, Muen­ster Uni­ver­sity Fac­ulty of Law, Ger­many (1996–2002)

Vis­it­ing pro­fess­or: Ass­er Insti­tute, The Hag­ue (1997–2004); Uni­ver­sity of Vir­gin­ia Law School (1999); mem­ber of the glob­al fac­ulty, Centre for Energy, Pet­ro­leum and Min­er­al Resources Law and Policy (CEPMLP), Uni­ver­sity of Dun­dee (2006–2012); Columbia Uni­ver­sity Law School, New York City (2014)

Mem­ber of the Board, Ger­man Arbit­ra­tion Insti­tute (DIS) 2001–2021; Chair­man of the Board 2012–2016

Coun­cil Mem­ber, ICC Insti­tute of World Busi­ness Law (2016–2024);
Mem­ber, ICC Com­mis­sion on Arbit­ra­tion and ADR (2019–2023)

Practice:

Chair­man, party-appoin­ted arbit­rat­or and sole arbit­rat­or in com­mer­cial arbit­ra­tions under ICC‑, Swiss Rules‑, DIS‑, LCIA‑, VIAC‑, UNCITRAL- and Ad Hoc-Arbit­ra­tion Rules; pan­els of arbit­rat­ors: China Inter­na­tion­al Eco­nom­ic Trade Arbit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion (CIETAC); ICDR Roster of Neut­rals; P.R.I.M.E. Fin­ance (Pan­el of Recog­nized Inter­na­tion­al Mar­ket Experts in Fin­ance, The Hag­ue); Dubai Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion Centre (DIAC); Vienna Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion Centre (VIAC); Pan­el of Arbit­rat­ors for Fin­an­cial Ser­vices Dis­putes (Hong Kong Int’l. Arbit­ra­tion Centre); NAI Court of Arbit­ra­tion for Art; Driver Con­tract Recog­ni­tion Board (CRB) For­mula One of the Fédéra­tion Inter­na­tionale de l’Automobile (FIA), until 2025;
Leg­al expert on Ger­man and inter­na­tion­al con­tract law in a num­ber of inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tions; Mem­ber, Arbit­ra­tion Law Reform Com­mis­sion at the Ger­man Insti­tu­tion of Arbit­ra­tion (DIS) 1992–1996;

Training:

Co-organ­izer of one-week prac­tice build­ing courses for arbit­ra­tion law­yers on the con­duct of inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tions for the Dubai Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion Centre (DIAC), UAE, 2012–2016; co-organ­izer of on-day advanced train­ing courses for prac­ti­tion­ers on pro­act­ive set­tle­ment pro­mo­tion by inter­na­tion­al arbit­rat­ors for the ICC Insti­tute of World Busi­ness Law in Miami (2018), Singa­pore and New York City (2024); Dir­ect­or, Cologne Academies on Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion & Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Medi­ation for stu­dents and young prac­ti­tion­ers (Cologne Academies); advanced course on the con­duct of inter­na­tion­al com­mer­cial arbit­ra­tions for mas­ter stu­dents, Centre for Energy, Pet­ro­leum and Min­er­al Resources Law and Policy (CEPMLP), Uni­ver­sity of Dun­dee (2006–2012)

Expertise:

Pre­vi­ous arbit­ra­tions involved, inter alia, dis­putes out of sales and ser­vice con­tracts, Post M&A, infra­struc­ture pro­jects, research & devel­op­ment, con­struc­tion, int’l. loans, banking& pro­ject fin­ance, ISDA Mas­ter Agree­ment (close-out net­ting), gas price adapt­a­tion, gas stor­age and long-term gas deliv­ery and trans­port­a­tion con­tracts, aero­naut­ics, auto­mot­ive, pat­ents and licens­ing, sale of non-per­form­ing loans, ser­vice pro­vider con­tracts in the cred­it card busi­ness. For a list of selec­ted cases vis­it Arbit­rat­or exper­i­ence

Publications:

Over two-hun­dred art­icles and sev­er­al books on domest­ic and inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tion and con­tract law, com­par­at­ive law, private inter­na­tion­al law, M&A, trade law, bank­ing and fin­ance; for a full list of pub­lic­a­tions vis­it Uni­versität zu Köln

Memberships:

Inter­na­tion­al Coun­cil for Com­mer­cial Arbit­ra­tion (ICCA), Lon­don Court of Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion (LCIA), Swiss Arbit­ra­tion Asso­ci­ation (ASA); Inter­na­tion­al Advis­ory Board, VIAC; ICC Ger­many; ICC Arbit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion Task Force on Fin­an­cial Insti­tu­tions and Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion

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