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Henrike Koch, Dr. Axel Boës, Afra Gyekye, Anna Kopylova and Bettina Gotthardt
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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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BGH confirms: An application for confirmation of the scope of an arbitral clause can be filed even if proceedings on the merits are already pending in a state court: BGH, 6 November 2025, I ZB 33/25
Case Summary and Background The dispute decided by BGH on 6 November 2025 (case ref: I ZB 33/25) arose from a complex international supply relationship involving ship engines. In 2007, a German manufacturer sold four ship engines to an Australian company, I. Ltd., which installed them in the vessel “E.”. Over time, the ship changed […]
Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on the Setting Aside and Remittal of Arbitral Awards to the Original Tribunal for Re-Consideration
Introduction:In another rare decision on the setting-aside of an arbitral award, issued on 18 December 2025 (Case No. I ZB 42/25), the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) considered the appeal against the ruling by the Bavarian Supreme Regional Court (BayObLG, case no. 102 Sch 39/24 e), on which we had commented here. The […]
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