Our expertise
We have extensive experience in handling complex technical and legal disputes in the aerospace and defense (including defense technology) sectors, both as party representatives and as arbitrators.
Our work includes national and international disputes arising from, in particular, procurement, development, and cooperation agreements. Our clients particularly value our ability to structure highly complex technical and legal matters and present them precisely and comprehensibly to arbitral tribunals or state courts.
Our structured approach to evaluating technical documentation, our regular work with technical experts, and our experienced handling of confidential information ensure particularly effective and legally sound representation of our clients’ interests.
Relevant cases
- Arbitrator in an international DIS arbitration in relation to a space technology joint venture
- Arbitrator in an international DIS arbitration in relation to a contract for the integration of equipment at an astronomical research site
- Arbitrator in an international ad hoc arbitration in relation to multiple contracts concerning the provision of satellite capacity
- Arbitrator in an international ad hoc arbitration in a dispute between a supplier of aircraft parts and an aircraft sales company
- Arbitrator in an international, multi-party ICC arbitration in a dispute concerning a manufacturing and supply agreement in the aviation industry
- Arbitrator in an international ICC arbitration in relation to an agency agreement in the defence sector
- Arbitrator in a KIG arbitration in relation to a framework agreement concerning air chartering services
- Party representation of a foreign company in proceedings for the attachment of an aircraft in connection with the enforcement of an ICC award
- Advice to a foreign company regarding a contract for the maintenance of technical components of patrol boats and the potential enforcement of claims in a GMAA arbitration
- Advice to a foreign aircraft part supplier on procedural and substantive law questions of an ICC arbitration in relation to a framework supply agreement with a European aircraft builder