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Henrike Koch, Dr. Axel Boës, Afra Gyekye, Anna Kopylova and Bettina Gotthardt
Law Firm
for maritime commercial law and arbitration in Hamburg
KDB.legal Koch Boës is a highly specialized law boutique in Hamburg with a strong focus on maritime and commercial law as well as arbitration.
Clients of KDB.legal Koch Boës are particularly shipping companies and shipyards, but also private equity investors and service companies from other industries such as media, sports and gastronomy.
Henrike Koch and Dr. Axel Boës have gained their experience and expertise over more than 20 years in different companies and positions before starting the law boutique in summer 2015. Those broad and in-depth experiences enable Henrike Koch and Dr. Axel Boës to not only work closely with their clients on legal issues, but also to offer a tailored approach to corporate management and strategy challenges.
They’re offering accompanying advice and support their clients from the beginning of a problem analysis over strategy development until its successful implementation. A mandate always ends with a holistic and critical evaluation of the progress and the targets achieved, both in economical and legal aspects.
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Siemens AG and its Russian subsidiary held subsidiarily liable for debts of Russian Spin-Off in Landmark Judgment by Russian Court
The St. Petersburg Arbitrazh Court has held Siemens AG and its former Russian subsidiary subsidiarily liable for the debts of OOO (Russian LLC equivalent) “Neftegaz i Energetika”, marking a landmark insolvency judgment amid sanctions and contested restructuring. © unsplash, Sasun Bughdaryan I. Introduction On 21 August 2025, the Arbitrazh Court of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad […]
Is there a successful path for enforcement of an arbitral award in Russia?
In one of our recent articles (see here), we discussed a case in which the Russian commercial court refused to recognise an arbitral award because it was requested by a foreign company from a so-called unfriendly country without a domestic bank account. Enforcement would result in a violation of the provisional public order. Now, the […]
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