
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
Cyprus court decision not recognised in Russia
Since 1984, Cyprus was one of the few EU countries to have concluded a mutual legal assistance agreement with Russia in civil and criminal matters, under which the two countries undertook to recognise the decisions of each other’s courts (Art. 23). However, current practice is such that this provision is no longer applied. Decisions by […]
Are even domestic arbitration awards not good enough for enforcement in Russia?
In a series of decisions (Court case no. А43-27728/2024) originating at the Arbitrazh Court in Nizhny Novgorod, a domestic Russian award in favour of a Swiss entity was first recognised and then this decision was lifted by the Court of Appeal and the matter referred back to the first instance court, which then refused enforcement […]