Klaus Peter Berger

Professor Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, LL.M.

Arbitrator experience (selected cases):

Eight con­sol­id­ated ad hoc arbit­ra­tions con­cern­ing dis­putes between share­hold­ers and two oper­at­ing com­pan­ies of a European mul­tina­tion­al (pres­id­ent)
 
Two con­sol­id­ated ad hoc arbit­ra­tions involving a joint ven­ture dis­pute in the Ger­man heavy industry (pres­id­ent)
 
Three ICC arbit­ra­tions (two as co-arbit­rat­or, one as sole arbit­rat­or) involving tech­nic­al issues in the pro­duc­tion and main­ten­ance of pas­sen­ger air­craft, includ­ing air­wor­thi­ness and metal­lur­gic­al issues (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute between a European air­craft man­u­fac­turer and a Chinese com­pany arising out of a long-term con­tract for the mar­ket­ing of leis­ure air­crafts, the con­tract being gov­erned by the UNIDROIT Prin­ciples of Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Con­tracts to the exclu­sion of any domest­ic law (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
Ad hoc arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing, inter alia, force majeure/hardship and take-or-pay issues arising out of a long-term gas deliv­ery con­tract between a North European and an East European com­pany (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of four loan agree­ments and cor­res­pond­ing pay­ment guar­an­tees between a Ger­man bank and three com­pan­ies from the UAE (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
Ad hoc arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a con­trac­tu­al dis­pute involving the For­mula One racing driver Oscar Piastri and two For­mula One racing teams under the arbit­ra­tion rules of the Drivers‘ Con­tract Recog­ni­tion Board (CRB) of the Fédéra­tion Inter­na­tionale de l’Auto­mobile (FIA) (co-arbit­rat­or) Oscar Piastri
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing delivery‑, qual­ity- and oth­er issues arising out of two long-term gas deliv­ery con­tracts between two state cor­por­a­tions in the Near-East (co-arbit­rat­or) 
 
LCIA arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of vari­ous tech­nic­al issues of sub-sea gas explor­a­tion in the North Sea between a party from Italy and a party from North­ern Europe (co-arbit­rat­or). 
  • See: A Teach­ing Ses­sion for the Effi­cient Man­age­ment of Tech­nic­al Evid­ence in Inter­na­tion­al Arbit­ra­tion, Kluwer Arbit­ra­tion Blog, Janu­ar 18, 2019 (togeth­er with McIlrath, Gil­bert, Lew and Per­kins), Kluwer Arbit­ra­tion Blog
ICC arbit­ra­tion between a com­pany from the Arab region and three Ger­man auto­mot­ive com­pan­ies con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of two gen­er­al dis­tri­bu­tion agree­ments for the dis­tri­bu­tion of motor vehicles and involving, inter alia, leg­al issues relat­ing to the valid­ity of a lim­it­a­tion-of-liab­il­ity clause under Ger­man law on stand­ard terms (secs. 305 et seq BGB) (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
DIS arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a lease agree­ment for sub-soil gas stor­age cav­erns and related to the con­struc­tion and tech­nic­al con­di­tion of some of these cav­erns between a party from Ger­many and two oth­er com­pan­ies from Ger­many (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion between a Ger­man auto­mot­ive OEM and a European sub­si­di­ary of a Ger­man heavy industry com­pany con­cern­ing dam­age claims arising out of a devel­op­ment and deliv­ery con­tract for cer­tain elec­tron­ic parts in the auto­mot­ive industry (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion between three banks as claimants and anoth­er bank and a European state as respond­ents con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a Con­sor­ti­um and Share­hold­ers’ Agree­ment for the acquis­i­tion, restruc­tur­ing and segreg­a­tion of a mul­tina­tion­al bank­ing group (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing dam­ages arising out of an indus­tri­al auc­tion pro­cess for the deliv­ery of cer­tain auto­mot­ive parts and involving parties from Ger­many and Asia (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a Pur­chase and Sale Agree­ment for the entire issued share cap­it­al of two spe­cial pur­pose com­pan­ies that owned par­ti­cip­at­ing interests in a pro­duc­tion shar­ing con­tract and a risk ser­vice agree­ment related to the explor­a­tion and devel­op­ment of off­shore oil fields between the sub­si­di­ary of an inde­pend­ent oil com­pany headquartered in the US and an Afric­an state-owned com­pany (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing claims arising out of a pat­ent license agree­ment between a Ger­man com­pany and a com­pany from Asia (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a Mas­ter Sale and Pur­chase Agree­ment con­cluded between a Ger­man mul­tina­tion­al and a com­pany from the US and related to the sale of a sec­tor of the Ger­man party’s busi­ness (co-arbit­rat­or)   
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing tech­nic­al issues related to cell­phone com­mu­nic­a­tion tech­no­logy between a com­pany from Africa and a com­pany from the US (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing vari­ous sale and pur­chase agree­ments as well as oth­er agree­ments and a con­sult­ing agree­ment between the Dutch sub­si­di­ary of a mul­tina­tion­al from North­ern Europe and two parties from the Carib­bean and from Tur­key (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing claims res­ult­ing from close-out net­ting under a 2002 ISDA Mas­ter Agree­ment (includ­ing leg­al issues related to ex parte pro­ceed­ings, anti-arbit­ra­tion injunc­tions  and cross-bor­der insolv­ency) and con­cluded for pur­poses of hedging for­eign exchange risks between a bank from the US and a com­pany from India (pres­id­ent)
 
Two ad hoc arbit­ra­tions con­cern­ing price adapt­a­tion in two long-term gas deliv­ery con­tracts involving the Ger­man sub­si­di­ary of a gas maket­ing com­pany from the US and a Ger­man gas import­ing com­pany (pres­id­ent)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a cred­it card pro­vider con­tract between a com­pany from the UK and a cred­it card ser­vice com­pany from Europe (pres­id­ent)
 
DIS arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing the valu­ation of one of the largest options ever con­cluded in Ger­many between a Ger­man bank and the insolv­ency admin­is­trat­or of a Ger­man com­pany (pres­id­ent)
 
LCIA arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute between con­sor­ti­um mem­bers arising out of an Air­port Devel­op­ment Agree­ment for the devel­op­ment of a new inter­na­tion­al air­port in the cap­it­al of a coun­try in South­ern Europe between a Ger­man party as claimant and a party from Ger­many and the airport‘s oper­at­ing com­pany from that coun­try as respond­ent (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of two License and Co-Devel­op­ment Agree­ments for the devel­op­ment and licens­ing of a med­ic­al product between a com­pany from Den­mark and a com­pany from Switzer­land (pres­id­ent)
 
DIS arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing recip­roc­al multi-bil­lion-euro claims arising out of con­trac­tu­al pen­alty clauses between com­pan­ies from Ger­many (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of the sale of a multi-mil­lion dol­lar port­fo­lio of col­lat­er­al­ized non-per­form­ing loans (NPLs) between a Ger­man bank and an invest­ment com­pany from the US (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a con­tract for the deliv­ery of a newly developed indus­tri­al machine for the pro­duc­tion of cer­tain indus­tri­al com­pon­ents and involving, inter alia, leg­al issues relat­ing to the valid­ity of a lim­it­a­tion-of-liab­il­ity (cap) clause under Ger­man law on stand­ard terms (secs. 305 et seq BGB) between a Ger­man indus­tri­al com­pany and a com­pany from a European coun­try (co-arbit­rat­or, excerpts of the par­tial award reprin­ted in Schieds­VZ 2005, 108 et seq)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a con­tract for the design, pro­duc­tion and sup­ply of the main and aux­il­i­ary equip­ment for use in a steam tur­bine power plant between a com­pany from Hun­gary and a party from the Rus­si­an Fed­er­a­tion (co-arbit­rat­or) 
 
Two LCIA arbit­ra­tions con­cern­ing the repay­ment of loans under two inter­na­tion­al loan agree­ments between a Ger­man bank and a com­pany from Ukraine (co-arbit­rat­or)
 
ICC arbit­ra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute arising out of a long-term con­tract for the pro­duc­tion of vari­ous dairy-based cheese products between a Ger­man com­pany and five com­pan­ies from Ger­many, Switzer­land, Aus­tria, Bel­gi­um and Spain (pres­id­ent)