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 | Jan K. Schäfer Allen & Overy LLP |
Jan K. Schäfer is Senior Associate in the International Arbitration Group at Allen & Overy LLP, resident in the Frankfurt office. He has specialized in international arbitration from 1997 and has been acting as counsel and arbitrator in international and German arbitration proceeding since 2001, notably under the Rules of the ICC and DIS. He has published widely in the field and is a regular speaker at arbitration conferences. He is coordinator of DIS 40 and co-chairs the German Discussion Forum on Investment Law and Arbitration. He was educated in Germany, England, Holland and Singapore.
Areas of specialization: Post M&A disputes, construction cases, foreign investment disputes; recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and judgments; drafting and advising on complex arbitration clauses; taking of cross-border evidence; South East Asian arbitration law (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong); German contract law, construction law, commercial law and corporate law.
Language skills: German (native), English (able to conduct arbitral proceedings), Dutch (fully fluent), French (fluent)
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