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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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Art. 31 CMR, German Jurisdiction and Lithuanian Law: When Forum Selection Fails but Choice-of-Law Prevails
The recent judgment of the District Court Groß-Gerau offers an instructive illustration of the complex internaction between the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), the Brussels I Regulation and the Rome I Regulation in cross-border transport disputes. I. Introduction Cross-border road transport disputes within the EU frequently raise […]
Suspicion of control by sanctioned entities is not enough to avoid payment under coal supply contract – says ICC Tribunal – Moscow Arbitrage court grants enforcement
Russia Enforces ICC Arbitral Award Despite Sanctions Objections
Introduction On 15 May 2026, the Moscow Arbitrazh Court rendered a decision in case No. А40-332538/25-68-2153, granting enforcement of an arbitral award rendered on 18 September 2025 by a Tribunal under the auspices of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris (Case No. 27933/ELU). The decision addresses the enforcement of […]
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