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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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Enforcement Measures on Frozen Libyan Assets Require Prior Administrative Authorisation

Cour de cassation (2e civ.), 5 February 2026, No. 23-15.936

Cour de cassation (2e civ.), 5 February 2026, No. 23-15.936 1. Introduction and procedural background In its judgment of 5 February 2026 (No. 23-15.936), the Second Civil Chamber of the Cour de cassation dismissed an appeal against a decision of the Paris Court of Appeal (2 February 2023), confirming that no enforcement measure may be […]

No Valid Service under Private Address if the Adressee is Subject to a Travel Ban Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 19 February 2026, [2026] EWCA Civ 139

Overview In Fridman v Agrofirma Oniks LLC & Anor , the Court of Appeal (Lewison LJ, Phillips LJ and Sir Launcelot Henderson) addressed a fundamental question of English private international law: can a claimant validly serve proceedings at a defendant’s English residence where the defendant is subject to an indefinite UK travel ban and is […]

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KDB.legal Koch Boës
Rechtsanwälte

Colonnaden 21
D – 20354 Hamburg

Tel. +49 40-30 70 90 70
Fax+49 40-30 70 90 717

Phone+49 40-30 70 90 70