Klaus Peter Berger

Professor Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, LL.M.

Arbitrator experience (selected cases):

Arbi­tra­tion under Swiss Rules of Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion con­cern­ing a dis­pute between Euro­pean par­ties involv­ing the appli­ca­tion of a con­trac­tu­al adap­ta­tion clause to an index­a­tion clause con­tained in the same con­tract which relat­ed to high val­ue long-term infra­struc­ture pro­cure­ment (co-arbi­tra­tor)
 
Eight con­sol­i­dat­ed ad hoc arbi­tra­tions con­cern­ing dis­putes between share­hold­ers and two oper­at­ing com­pa­nies of a Euro­pean fam­i­ly-owned 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 air­crafts, 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)
 
DIS arbi­tra­tion between two Ger­man par­ties con­cern­ing a dis­pute with respect to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion of an inno­v­a­tive asphalt sur­face for high­ways (co-arbi­tra­tor)
 
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)
 
Ad hoc arbi­tra­tion con­cern­ing claims aris­ing out of the con­struc­tion of wind tur­bines for an off­shore wind park, includ­ing issues of insol­ven­cy in arbi­tra­tion (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 from a Turnkey Engi­neer­ing, Pro­cure­ment, and Con­struc­tion Con­tract (EPC con­tract) for a gas-fired pow­er plant between par­ties from Spain and Asia (co-arbi­tra­tor)
 
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 (sole arbi­tra­tor)
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between a Ger­man multi­na­tion­al and a com­pa­ny form Asia con­cern­ing claims aris­ing out of a con­tract for the devel­op­ment and sale of cell­phone equip­ment (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 an inter­na­tion­al deliv­ery con­tract gov­erned by the UN Con­ven­tion on Con­tracts for the Inter­na­tion­al Sale of Goods (CISG) and involv­ing the inter­pre­ta­tion and delim­i­ta­tion of var­i­ous INCOTERMS (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 bespoke OTC 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 advance pay­ment and per­for­mance bank guar­an­tees relat­ed to 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) 
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between two Euro­pean par­ties con­cern­ing a post M&A dis­pute and involv­ing, inter alia, the rela­tion­ship between claims under pre-con­trac­tu­al lia­bil­i­ty (cul­pa in con­tra­hen­do) and exhaus­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tions and war­ranties in a con­tract gov­erned by Ger­man law, but draft­ed in Eng­lish (pres­i­dent)
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between two Ger­man par­ties con­cern­ing claims aris­ing out of rep­re­sen­ta­tions and war­ranties in a share sale and pur­chase agree­ment and whether an alleged war­ran­ty claim brought by a third par­ty with respect to bat­tery com­po­nents for cer­tain mil­i­tary ammu­ni­tion is cov­ered by such war­ranties and indem­ni­ties.
 
Two LCIA arbi­tra­tions con­cern­ing the repay­ment of loans under two inter­na­tion­al loan agree­ments between a Ger­man bank and a com­pa­ny from Ukraine (co-arbi­tra­tor)
 
DIS arbi­tra­tion between two Euro­pean par­ties con­cern­ing a post M&A dis­pute involv­ing a con­trac­tu­al bal­ance sheet war­ran­ty and the applic­a­bil­i­ty of Ger­man stan­dard terms law (§§ 305 et seq BGB) to nego­ti­at­ed terms of an M&A con­tract (pres­i­dent)
 
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)
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between two Euro­pean par­ties con­cern­ing a dis­pute aris­ing out of the con­struc­tion of a high­ly auto­mat­ed pro­duc­tion line for build­ing com­po­nents (co-arbi­tra­tor)
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between a Dutch and a Turk­ish par­ty con­cern­ing a dis­pute aris­ing out of the deliv­ery of an indus­tri­al machine and involv­ing hard­ship under the Dutch Civ­il Code (Burg­er­lijk Wet­boek) and ex parte pro­ceed­ings (sole arbi­tra­tor)
 
ICC arbi­tra­tion between par­ties from Poland and France con­cern­ing a claim for demur­rage under a char­ter par­ty con­tract (sole arbi­tra­tor)