Practice Areas:
Shipping, transport and trade, companies and corporations, arbitration, mediation 

Functions and memberships:
German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA), London Maritime Arbitration Association (LMAA), German Association for International Maritime Law (DVIS), German Association for Transport Law (DGTR), Working Group Transport and Forwarding Law in the German Bar Association (DAV)

Publications:
Numerous specialist articles and lectures on shipping, transport and procedural law issues 

Curriculum:
Studied law at the Universities of Regensburg, Bonn, Bologna and Munich from 1989 to 1995, legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich with station in a law firm in London from 1995 to 1997, second state examination in Munich (1997)

Admitted to the bar in 1997

Doctorate in civil procedure law at the University of Munich 2001
Certified specialist lawyer for transport and forwarding law since 2006
Certified mediator since 2006
Judge at the Hamburg Lawyers Court since 2007, presiding judge since 2017
Presiding Judge since 2017 

Languages: English, Italian