Heiko Plassmeier

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Expertise

Dr Heiko Plassmeier is an experienced disputes lawyer. He advises and acts for clients in disputes before state court as well as domestic and international arbitral tribunals in all areas of commercial law as well as in conflict of laws and international procedural law matters. He also acts as an arbitrator.

Heiko was educated at the Universities of Göttingen and Cambridge. The University of Göttingen awarded him a doctor’s degree in 1995 and the University of Cambridge awarded him an LL.M. degree in 1996.

He has over 25 years of professional experience and has been listed in “Best Lawyers in Germany” in the categories “Arbitration and Mediation” and “Litigation” since 2017.

Heiko Advises

large companies, including listed companies, from Germany and abroad. He has experience with disputes, inter alia

  • in plant construction,
  • in the post-M&A sector,
  • in the automotive and
  • in the banking sector.

Experience Highlights

  • Representing a technology company that focuses on industry, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare, in ICC arbitration proceedings concerning the construction of a nuclear power plant (amount in dispute approx. € 6 billion) for years,
  • Representing a German specialty chemicals company in a post-M&A arbitration under DIS rules,
  • Representing a German car manufacturer in over 100 legal disputes relating to the “Diesel scandal”,
  • Representing a French manufacturer of aircraft turbines in defence against claims of Air Berlin plc’s insolvency administrator for repayment of a down payment (inter alia based on insolvency contestation),
  • complex insolvency law disputes and
  • recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • June 1999 – June 2024: Baker McKenzie, Düsseldorf
  • October 1996 – May 1999: Boesebeck Droste (now Hogan Lovells), Düsseldorf

Memberships

  • German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
  • Society for Comparative Law

Education

  • 1995: University of Göttingen (Dr. iur.)
  • 1996: University of Cambridge (LL.M.)

Selected Publications

  • Unjust enrichment in private international law and from a comparative law perspective, dissertation, Göttingen 1996
  • The Use of Experts in Litigation and Arbitration in Germany, in: D. Mark Cato (ed.), “The Expert in Litigation and Arbitration”, p. 155 et seq., 1999 (with Volker Triebel)
  • Enforcement of “non-final” arbitration awards, SchiedsVZ 2004, p. 234 et seq.
  • Do we need capital investor test case proceedings? – An inventory of the KapMuG, NZG 2005, p. 609 et seq.
  • The end of “double exequatur” for foreign arbitration awards, SchiedsVZ 2010, p. 82 et seq.
  • Once decided – forever determined?, BauR 2018, p. 891 et seq. (with Annette Keilmann)
  • Country section Germany in “The Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook” (2007 – 2024)
  • Beck Online Commentary Insolvency Act (commentary on sections 270c, 274 – 278, with Holger Ellers) (since 2016)

 

 

 

 

Heiko is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

Expertise

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Dr Heiko Plassmeier is an experienced disputes lawyer. He advises and acts for clients in disputes before state court as well as domestic and international arbitral tribunals in all areas of commercial law as well as in conflict of laws and international procedural law matters. He also acts as an arbitrator.

Heiko was educated at the Universities of Göttingen and Cambridge. The University of Göttingen awarded him a doctor’s degree in 1995 and the University of Cambridge awarded him an LL.M. degree in 1996.

He has over 25 years of professional experience and has been listed in “Best Lawyers in Germany” in the categories “Arbitration and Mediation” and “Litigation” since 2017.

Heiko Advises

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large companies, including listed companies, from Germany and abroad. He has experience with disputes, inter alia

  • in plant construction,
  • in the post-M&A sector,
  • in the automotive and
  • in the banking sector.

Experience Highlights

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  • Representing a technology company that focuses on industry, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare, in ICC arbitration proceedings concerning the construction of a nuclear power plant (amount in dispute approx. € 6 billion) for years,
  • Representing a German specialty chemicals company in a post-M&A arbitration under DIS rules,
  • Representing a German car manufacturer in over 100 legal disputes relating to the “Diesel scandal”,
  • Representing a French manufacturer of aircraft turbines in defence against claims of Air Berlin plc’s insolvency administrator for repayment of a down payment (inter alia based on insolvency contestation),
  • complex insolvency law disputes and
  • recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • June 1999 – June 2024: Baker McKenzie, Düsseldorf
  • October 1996 – May 1999: Boesebeck Droste (now Hogan Lovells), Düsseldorf

Memberships

  • German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
  • Society for Comparative Law

Education

  • 1995: University of Göttingen (Dr. iur.)
  • 1996: University of Cambridge (LL.M.)

Selected Publications

  • Unjust enrichment in private international law and from a comparative law perspective, dissertation, Göttingen 1996
  • The Use of Experts in Litigation and Arbitration in Germany, in: D. Mark Cato (ed.), “The Expert in Litigation and Arbitration”, p. 155 et seq., 1999 (with Volker Triebel)
  • Enforcement of “non-final” arbitration awards, SchiedsVZ 2004, p. 234 et seq.
  • Do we need capital investor test case proceedings? – An inventory of the KapMuG, NZG 2005, p. 609 et seq.
  • The end of “double exequatur” for foreign arbitration awards, SchiedsVZ 2010, p. 82 et seq.
  • Once decided – forever determined?, BauR 2018, p. 891 et seq. (with Annette Keilmann)
  • Country section Germany in “The Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook” (2007 – 2024)
  • Beck Online Commentary Insolvency Act (commentary on sections 270c, 274 – 278, with Holger Ellers) (since 2016)

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Heiko is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).