People
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.
Topics
Can a court base its decision on a hearing/interrogation of the party alone?
A german court does not have to gather additional evidence offered on a disputed fact if it can base its conviction within the meaning of section 286(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) on other circumstances, such as the content of a party hearing alone (BGH, 10.03.2021 – XII ZR 54/20). This applies independently […]
Equality of arms in COVID-times: Travel restrictions are not an argument for Russian courts
The following decision of the Moscow Arbitrazh (Commercial) Court shows that the arguments of parties who try to resist the recognition or enforcement of arbitral awards in Russia in the times of the COVID pandemic, such as the impossibility to send representatives or witnesses to Russia or to participate in video hearings, are doomed to […]