Carsten works in our international arbitration group, and acts in both commercial and investment treaty arbitration proceedings, with a focus on Europe and Latin America.
Carsten has acted for corporate clients, public entities and states in numerous high profile commercial and investment treaty arbitration proceedings under ICC, DIS, ICSID and ICSID Additional Facility. He is also member of our Latin American international arbitration group and conducts proceedings in English, Spanish and German.
Carsten currently represents multinational companies and financial institutions in the energy and telecommunications sectors. He is also author of numerous articles on international arbitration.
Carsten speaks German, English and Spanish.
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- Representing Strabag SE and its joint venture partners in an ICSID arbitration against Germany arising out of changes in the offshore wind energy sector.
- Representing Mexican telecommunications giant América Móvil in an ICSID Additional Facility arbitration against Colombia under the free trade agreement between Mexico and Colombia, in relation to the expropriation of the assets held by Colombia’s largest mobile phone provider.
- Acting for the Government of Romania in two seperate ICSID arbitrations (including ICSID annulment proceedings).
- Acting for the Austrian energy company EVN AG in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Bulgaria regarding regulatory measures in the energy sector.
- Representing a financial institution in an ICSID arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty against the Kingdom of Spain in connection with regulatory changes to the renewable energy regime.
- Representing the State General Reserve Fund of the Sultanate of Oman in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Bulgaria arising out of the Bulgarian banking crisis.
- Representing a world leading chemical company in two post-M&A arbitrations.
- Advising a US pharmaceutical company in opposing the enforcement of an ICC arbitration award in the courts of New York, Germany, and France for violations of EU competition law.
- Representing one of the world's leading chemical companies in an ad hoc post-M&A arbitration concerning indemnity obligations for environmental liabilities under a share purchase agreement.
- A multinational company in three parallel arbitrations against a state entity of a European state in relation to the construction and operation of a security and telecommunications network.
- Representing an investment fund in an ICC arbitration relating to a joint venture dispute arising out of a landmark real estate project in an Eastern European city.
- Representing a European energy company in an ICC arbitration against a European contractor in relation to an EPC/turnkey contract concerning a natural gas combined cycle power plant.
- A multinational industrial company in an ICC arbitration in relation to the termination of a technology licence agreement.
- Advising various leading financial institutions in a number of litigation and arbitration proceedings related to complex financial transactions.
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Education
- University of Passau and University of Bonn, Germany (German law studies)
- Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain (Public international law and European law)
- New York University, US (LLM in international legal studies)
- UC Berkeley, School of Law (visiting scholar)
- Lauterpacht Centre for international Law, University of Cambridge (visiting scholar)
- International Investment Law Centre, Cologne, Germany (Dr iur, with distinction - summa cum laude)
Professional qualifications
- Admitted to practise in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) and New York, US (attorney-at-law)
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