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)

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

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)

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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