Dr Ralf Hafner
M.Sc., Lawyer
Partner
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Dr Ralf Hafner
Career
Dr Ralf Hafner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. His area of activity comprises litigation & arbitration. He particularly advises his national and international clients on complex, international disputes, mostly post-M&A-cases as well as other corporate, commercial, banking and contractual matters and claims for damages in particular against corporate bodies. He represents his clients in arbitration and state court proceedings, including proceedings for the enforcement of arbitral awards. Besides numerous civil court proceedings he has been involved in more than 45 arbitration cases governed by the arbitration rules of DIS (German Institution for Arbitration), ICC, LCIA, SCC, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL either as Counsel or as secretary of the arbitral tribunal and covering a variety of industries. He also sits as an arbitrator.
Ralf Hafner studied law at the University of Freiburg and was admitted to the German Bar in 2004. While holding a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation he earned a doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg (Dr. iur., 2004). In 2008 Ralf graduated with a master's degree (M.Sc. (Construction Law & Dispute Resolution)) from King's College London. Since 2011 he teaches Business Law at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Institute for Management of the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. In 2012 he became Visiting Lecturer for European & International Law at King's College London. After seven years with a major Anglo-American law firm in its Dusseldorf and London offices, Dr Ralf Hafner has been working with BEITEN BURKHARDT as a partner since January 2011.
The industry journal JUVE lists Dr Ralf Hafner as frequently recommended lawyer in the field of Trade and Liability.
"extraordinarily meticulous, collegial, assertive", Competitor
(JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2019/2020)
The industry journal JUVE lists Dr Ralf Hafner as frequently recommended lawyer in the field of Trade and Liability.
(JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2018/2019)
Dr Ralf Hafner is "to be highlighted as particularly good".
(The Legal 500 Deutschland 2017)
Awards
Memberships
- German British Jurist Association
- Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)
- Vereinigung junger Schiedsrechtler (DIS40)
- ICDR, KAS Alumni, KCCLA, YAF (ICC), YIAG (LCIA)
Publications / Lectures
Publications:
"Rethinking the Judiciary?!", in: DisputeResolution, No. 4, 2019, p. 15 et seq.;
Arbitrability III" – Advancement or Wrong Track? (together with Katharina Hoffmann), in: DisputeResolution, No. 1, 2018, p. 12 et seq.;
Der ehrbare Kaufmann und Treu und Glauben - Standortvorteile deutschen Rechts gegenüber englischem Recht? (together with Volker Triebel), in: Graf/Stober (ed.), Der Ehrbare Kaufmann und Compliance - Zur Aktivierung eines klassischen Leitbilds für die Compliancediskussion, Hamburg 2010, pp. 45-58;
Präklusion und "Heilung" der Unzuständigkeit bei GmbH-Beschlussmängelstreitigkeiten im Schiedsverfahren (together with Volker Triebel), in: SchiedsVZ 2009, pp. 313-321;
Schiedsfähigkeit von Beschlussmängelstreitigkeiten im Recht der GmbH am Maßstab der neuen BGH-Rechtsprechung und ihre Auswirkungen (together with Jürgen Witte), in: DStR 2009, pp. 2052-2058;
Is there a need for the 'group of companies' doctrine?, London, 2008 (master thesis);
30 Years UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: Experiences and Case Law, Default of a Party (Article 28) (together with Dr Volker Triebel);
Der Wirtschaftsprüfer als Schiedsgutachter bei M&A Transaktionen (together with Volker Triebel), in: Nicklisch (ed.), Der Experte im Recht, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 125-144;
Stationäre Einrichtungen im Wettbewerb: Steuervergünstigungen für Wohlfahrtsverbände im Bereich des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen im Lichte des EG-Beihilfenrechts, 2004 (doctoral thesis).
Lectures:
Seminar at the University of Bayreuth: "Dos and Don'ts in Litigation" (10 November 2014);
Client seminar on the new ICC-Rules 2012, January 2012;
In-house seminar at a major global automotive supplier on the new ICC-Rules 2012, December 2011;
In-house seminar at a global industries supplier on alternatives to arbitration an jurisdiction clauses, June 2011;
Sitting regularly as an arbitrator in various pre-moots and at the Willem C. Vis Moot Court in Vienna.