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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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EU General Court confirms prohibition of rendering legal services to Russian legal entities and gives guidance regarding the exceptions
On October 2, 2024, the General Court of the European Union (Grand Chamber) delivered a significant ruling in Case T-797/22. The claim was filed by the Ordre néerlandais des avocats du barreau de Bruxelles (Belgium) and other applicants, supported by the Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (Germany) and Ordre des avocats de Genève (Switzerland). The applicants challenged the legal […]
Another case of “jurisdictional ping-pong” aka Russian Court Decision denies – again – recognition and enforcement of arbitral award
Mike Ackerman via Unsplash In another case of “jurisdictional ping-pong” (see other cases discussed by us here and here), the Arbitrazh Court of the Sverdlovsk Region rendered a judgment on 16 August 2024 (case no. A60-24839/2024) in a legal dispute between a Polish claimant and a Russian defendant regarding the recognition and enforcement of an […]