Dr Heiner Kahlert now a member of the HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators
Our firm is delighted to announce that Dr Heiner Kahlert was admitted to the renowned Panel of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). The HKIAC is one of the leading arbitral institutions in the world. More than 350 arbitrations were submitted to the HKIAC in 2024 alone, the vast majority of which were international in nature.
The Panel of Arbitrators is intended to assist parties in finding suitable arbitrators for their matters. According to the HKIAC's guidelines, only persons with particular experience as arbitrators are accepted onto the panel. Dr Heiner Kahlert is now one of only eleven German (and German-licensed) members of the panel.
Our commitment to climate protection
For years we have been endeavouring to reduce our carbon footprint. To this end, we are, on the one hand, trying to avoid unnecessary CO2 emissions, for example by reducing our travel activities – as we had already done before the corona virus pandemic – through the increased use of video conferencing and preferably travelling by train. Additionally, apart from a few, rare exceptions, our employees regularly cycle or use public transport to get to the office.
Furthermore, we obtain our electricity from a provider that supplies electricity from renewable energy with a certificate of origin and use local/district heating for heating and hot water in the office. On the other hand, we have once again made a CO2 compensation payment to atmosfair – this time covering the period from May 2022 to May 2024. As before, we used a CO2 calculator to calculate our CO2 emissions with the help of the data available to us as well as estimated values and determined the total amount required to offset these emissions. We rounded up this amount to a total of EUR 2,300 and transferred it to atmosfair. You can find the donation certificate here.
We are pleased to continue contributing to climate protection as a company and are determined to remain on this path.
Dr. Heiner Kahlert and David Menz publish article on the Payment Order Procedure at the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT).
Dr Heiner Kahlert and David Menz have published an article in the German sports law journal SpuRt 1/25 about the BAT and its new Payment Order Procedure. The article first provides an overview of the procedure before the BAT and its special features. It further explains the functioning of the Payment Order Procedure, which was introduced in February 2024. The Payment Order Procedure is comparable to default judgements before state courts (e.g. the European order for payment procedure) and is arguably the first of its kind in the context of international (sports) arbitration.
