Düsseldorf
+49 211 600 55-205 +49 211 600 55-200 w.kuehn@heuking.de
Languages
German,
English
Practice groups/Expertise
Consulting focuses
- Arbitration
- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
- Corporate Law
- Stock Corporation Law
- Commercial Law
- Construction Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Energy Law
- International Building Contract Law
- Litigation
- Civil Litigation
- Automotive
Vita
- Admitted to the Bar in Germany
- Education and former activities
- Universities of Munich and Münster (Legal Trainee/Referendar; Assessor; Dr. jur.)
- Buckeridge & Braune, Solicitors, London, United Kingdom
- Westfalenbank AG
Affiliations
- Founding member of the Dispute Resolution Forum Düsseldorf and Cologne
- Honorary member of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
- Past Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association
- Past Member, ICC International Court Arbitration
- Co-Chair, Arbitration in Maritime and Transport Disputes, Hamburg
- Co-Chair, International Bar Association First International Arbitration Day, New York
- Co-Chair, International Bar Association Second International Arbitration Day, Düsseldorf
Dr. Wolfgang Kuehn's Distinctions
Lexology Index: Germany – Arbitration 2026
Best Lawyers 2026
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2025
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024
Best Lawyers 2025
Who's Who Legal Arbitration 2024
Best Lawyers 2024
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023
WWL Germany 2023
Best Lawyers 2023
WWL Germany 2022
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2021/2022
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021
Best Lawyers 2022
Chambers Europe 2021
Chambers Global 2021
Who's Who Legal Arbitration 2021
WWL Germany 2021
JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2020/2021
Best Lawyers 2021
International Arbitration
- Chairman, Co-arbitrator and Counsel in international arbitrations (investment treaty, post M&A, construction, corporate under ICC, Danish Arbitration, SIAC, DIS, etc. and UNCITRAL ad hoc).
Latest news
Publications
2017
The Burden of Substantiation and Proof in Continental European Civil Procedure and the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Best Lawyers, Fall Global Business Edition 2017
Procedural Tools In Support Of Predictability In International Arbitration
Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 2017
2016
Adjudication in International Arbitration
Festschrift für Siegfried H. Elsing zum 65. Geburtstag, 11/2015
Lectures
2017
Alternative funding redux
Kiev Arbitration Days 2017, November 3, 2017