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Click here to enlarge.   Klaus SACHS IAI Correspondent   
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D-80335 Munich
Germany
Tel: +49.89.23807.109
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Klaus.Sachs@cms-hs.com
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Languages   German (native); French, English, Italian (fluent)
   
Nationality   Germany
   
Bar Admission   Germany - 1977
   
Education   University of Heidelberg (Law degree - 1973; Dr. iur. - 1976)
   
Academic  
Position  
Honorary Professor Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
   
Experience  
as Arbitrator  
Chair, Sole arbitrator, or member of the tribunal in numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the aegis of the ICC, DIS, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC); Vice Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Member of the Contract Recognition Board of the Formula 1, and in investment disputes under ICSID or UNCITRAL Rules; Member, ICSID Panel of arbitrators (appointed by Germany)
   
Experience  
as Counsel  
Numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the aegis of the ICC, DIS, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC), and the Moscow Chamber of Foreign Trade (mergers & acquisitions, corporate, industrial development, international licensing, and distribution matters)
   
Awards  
Rendered  
• ICSID Case No. ARB/11/22, Vigotop Limited v. Hungary, Award, 1 Oct. 2014 (full text ITA)

• ICSID Case No ARB/12/1, Tethyan Copper Company PTY Limited v. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Decision on Claimant's Request for Provisional Measures, 13 Dec. 2012 (full text ITA)

• LCIA Case No. 111790, United States v. Canada, Final Award, 18 Jul. 2012 (full text ITA)

• ICSID Case No. ARB/98/4, Wena Hotels Ltd (UK) v. Arab Republic of Egypt, Decision on Application for Interpretation of Arbitral Award, 31 Oct 2005 (full text ITA)
   
Publications  
Relating to  
Arbitration  
• "Time Limits in International Arbitral Proceedings," in The Powers and Duties of an Arbitrator: Liber Amicorum Pierre A. Karrer at 279 (P. Shaughnessy and S. Tung eds., Kluwer, 2017)(with T.C. Pröstler)

• "How to solve the tensions between expert determination and arbitration in the context of M&A contracts," in International Arbitration Under Review, Liber Amicorum for John Beechey, (A. Carlevaris, L. Lévy, A. Mourre, E. A. Schwartz eds., ICC Publication no. 772 E, 2015)363

• "Import of Umbrella Clauses by Way of Invoking Most-Favored-Nation-Treatment Clauses in International Investment Treaty Law" in Liber Amicorum for Rolf A. Schütze (C.H. Beck Verlag ed., 2014) (with S. Häusler) 499

• "Mock Arbitrations" in Arbitrators' Insights, Essays in Honour of Neil Kaplan (C. Bao, F. Lautenschlager eds. Sweet & Maxwell, 2012) (with N. Wiegand) 339

• "Overriding Mandatory Provisions before Arbitral Tribunals - Some Observations" in Liber Amicorum for Bernd von Hoffmann (2011) (with T. Niedermaier) 1051

• "Protocol on Expert Teaming: A New Approach to Expert Evidence," Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times, ICCA Congress Series No 15 (Kluwer 2011) (with N. Schmidt-Ahrendts) 135

• "Fast-Track Arbitration Agreements of MAC Clauses," in Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades (M.A. Fernandez-Ballesteros and D. Arias eds., La Ley, 2010) 1051

• "La protection de la partie faible en arbitrage," 2007(2) Cahiers de l'arbitrage, Gaz. Pal., Jul. 13/17, 2007

• "Arbitration and State Sovereignty – Protection of the weak Party in Arbitration," (13) Rev. Bras. Arb. 98 (2007)

• "Time and Money: Cost Control and Effective Case Management," in Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration (L.A. Mistelis and J.D.M. Lew (eds.), Kluwer Law International, 2006) 103

• "Les mesures provisoires dans l'arbitrage en droit allemand," in Médiation et arbitrage (L. Cadiet, T. Clay, E. Jeuland eds., LexisNexis, 2005)

• "The interaction between expert determination and arbitration," in Arbitration of Merger and Acquisition Disputes, ASA Special Series No. 24,(2005) 235

• "Die rechtliche Abgrenzung des Schiedsgutachtens vom Schiedsverfahren am Beispiel des Unternehmenskaufvertrages [The legal demarcation between expert determination proceedings and arbitration proceedings]," in Liber Amicorum Peter Schlosser (2005) 805

• "Schiedsgerichtsverfahren über Unternehmenskaufverträge – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung kartellrechtlicher Aspekte [Arbitration on M&A contracts including specific consideration of competition law aspects]," 2004(3) SchiedsVZ (German Arbitration Journal) 123

• "Use of documents and document discovery: 'Fishing Expeditions' versus Transparency and Burden of Proof," 2003(5) SchiedsVZ (German Arbitration Journal) 193

• "The Enforcement of Awards Nullified in the Country of Origin: the German Perspective ," in Improving the Efficiency of Arbitration Agreements and Awards: 40 Years of Application of the New York Convention, ICCA Congress Series No. 9, at 552 (Kluwer, 1999)

• "Das bilaterale französische-algerische Schiedsabkommen [The Bilateral French-Algerian Arbitration Agreement]," 1986 IPRaX 309
   
Other  
Connections  
with France  
Partly educated in France; practiced in Paris for five years
   

 
   
 
 
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