Organisation: German Arbitration Institute

DIS autumn conference explores “drivers of innovation”

Nadja Harraschain of A&O Shearman in Frankfurt reports on the autumn conference of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), which focused on drivers of innovation in arbitration.

12 February 2025

New co-chairs at German young group

DIS40, the under-40 group of the German Arbitration Institute, has appointed three new co-chairs.

01 October 2024

Bucharest lawyer launches boutique practice 

Romanian practitioner Ramona Cirlig has left Muşat & Asociaţii in Bucharest after 11 years to set up an independent practice as arbitrator and counsel in commercial disputes.

23 September 2024

DIS conference looks at integrity of proceedings

As the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) gears up for its autumn conference in Berlin next week, Christian Steger of RSM Ebner Stolz in Hamburg recaps the institute’s spring conference, which focused on the protection of procedural integrity in arbitration proceedings.

03 September 2024

Baker McKenzie promotes in Europe

Baker McKenzie has promoted international arbitration practitioners Désirée Prantl in Vienna, Valentina Hirsiger in Zurich and Max Oehm in Frankfurt to partner.

02 July 2024

German boutique recruits from Freshfields

Vasileios Regkakos has left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Berlin to join the partnership at a recently launched disputes boutique in the German capital.

19 June 2024

Change in leadership at Dutch institute

Camilla Perera-De Wit is stepping down as secretary general and director general of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI) to return to private practice as counsel and arbitrator.

13 June 2024

DIS launches third-party notice rules

The German Arbitration Institute (DIS) has introduced supplementary rules that allow for the use of notices to contractually bind third parties to awards.

21 May 2024

AstraZeneca seeks set aside of post-M&A award in Germany

AstraZeneca has applied to a German court to set aside a US$46.4 million German Arbitration Institute (DIS) award over milestone payments for its purchase of a cancer diagnostics start-up. 

26 April 2024

AstraZeneca liable in post-M&A dispute

A tribunal at the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) panel has ordered AstraZeneca to make additional payments under its US$150 million deal to purchase a cancer diagnostics start-up. 

08 February 2024

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