Dr. Wolfgang Kühn

Vita

• Admitted to the Bar since 1971
• Born 1941

Education and Former Activities

• Universities of Munich and Münster (Legal Trainee/Referendar 1968; Assessor 1971; Dr. jur. 1971)
• Buckeridge & Braune, Solicitors, London, United Kingdom (1971)
• Westfalenbank AG (1962-1964)

Projects

• Drafting and tendering of energy supply contracts
• Arbitrator und Counsel in major gas pricing arbitration proceedings
• Bids for public utility shares
• Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advises Walter Rau Group on sale to Bunge
• Privatization of the Bulgarian Merchant Fleet for German majority shareholder
• Sale of interests in Indian Joint Venture Company (logistics and port operations) to a Japanese worldwide leading shipping company for German co-partner

Description

International Arbitration

• Chairman and Co-arbitrator in international arbitrations (investment treaty, post M&A, construction, corporate under ICC, Danish Arbitration, SIAC, DIS, etc. and UNCITRAL ad hoc).

Publications

• "2010 Advisor to the IBA Rules of Evidence Subcommittee", Münchener Handbuch Corporate Law, Part 2, 3rd edition 2009 
• "Current Issues concerning the application of the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: a German perspective", Journal of International Arbitration 2008.
• Common Law vs Civil Law Proceedings in Commercial Arbitration in Liber Amicorum Dr. Lüer 2008;
• "Honorare bleiben gedeckelt" in: Financial Times Deutschland of May 22, 2007
• Recension by Dr. Kühn in SchiedsVZ for Handbook of ICC Arbitration by Michael Buehler and Thomas H. Webster, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, 2006,
• "Vertragsgestaltung bei M & A Transaktionen – Sorgfältige Strukturierung vermindert Risiken", Going Public 09/2006 (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• Commercial Arbitration in Germany, German Chapter for Arbitration World, 2nd Edition 2006 (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• "Arbitration World 2006", Jurisdictional Comparison on Germany 2006, p. 93 (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• Liber Amicorum Prof. Dr. Peter Schlosser, April 2005
• "Confidentiality in Arbitration", "Grenzüberschreitungen" – Beiträge zum internationalen Verfahrensrecht und zur Schiedsgerichtbarkeit, Festschrift für Peter Schlosser zum 70. Geburtstag 04/2005, p. 461 (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• Co-Author of the Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts, 2nd Edition, 2004, Part 2 (Commentary on Corporate Law)
• "Öffentlich-private Großprojekte" (public private mega projects), Schriftenreihe Heidelberger Kolloquium, Technologie und Recht 2004, Verlag C.H.Beck
• "Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts" (Co-Autor), Vol. 2. 2nd Edition 2004
• "Die Kostenentscheidung im Schiedsgerichtsverfahren", DIS-Materialien, X, 2005, p. 83, (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• "Die CME-Saga – Ein internationaler Investitionsstreit", Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren 01/2004, p. 1 et seq. (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• "How to avoid conflicting Awards – The Lauder and CME Cases", The Journal of World Investment & Trade 02/2004 (Kühn/Gantenberg)
• "Commercial Arbitration in Germany", German Chapter for Arbitration World 2003
• "The Application of International Law and Treaty Provisions by Arbitrators", The Journal of World Investment 2003, Vol. 4, No. 3 
• "Practical Problems related to Bilateral Investment Treaties in International Arbitration", ASA Special Series 08/2002, No. 19
• "Arbitration and Corporate Law", in: Liber Amicorum Prof. Böckstiegel, 2001
• Member working party "New IBA Rules of Evidence", 1999
• "M & A Litigation and Purchase Price Disputes", International Commercial Litigation 1998
• "Choice of Substantive Law in International Arbitration", International Business Lawyers 1997
• "Rectification and Interpretation of Arbitral Awards", ICC Bulletin 1996
• "Rico Claims in International Arbitration and Their Recognition in Germany 1994

Lectures

• Numerous lectures at national and international arbitration conferences (IBA, ICCA, ASA, LCIA, DIS, etc.)

Affiliations

• Honorary member of the Board of Directors of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), the International Bar Association (IBA) (Past Chairman of the Arbitration Committee),
• ICC International Court Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (Member of the ICC Court 1990 to 1996)
• Co-Chair, Arbitration in Maritime and Transport Disputes, Hamburg, 2007
• Co-Chair, International Bar Association First International Arbitration Day, New York, 1997
• Co-Chair, International Bar Association Second International Arbitration Day, Düsseldorf, 1998