Baker McKenzie Rechtsanwälte LLP & Co KG acts on cross-border arbitration proceedings across the food, technology, logistics and distribution and asset management sectors, integrating the firm’s expertise in competition, IP, foreign trade and sanctions law. Post-transactional, joint venture and distribution agreement disputes are a particular strength of the practice. The ‘very strategic’ Filip Boras heads the group and is renowned for his expertise representing eastern European clients and acting in foreign-seated arbitration proceedings. He is supported by a team that includes Markus Schwaiger, who focuses on asset tracing and enforcement, and the 'very systematic and knowledgeable' Julia Hildebrandt, who handles both investment and commercial arbitration.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Baker McKenzie offers a well-rounded team with a double partner lead where required, as well as experienced associates and more junior staff. The staff composition is diverse in gender and cultural background. The team is pleasant to work with and instills great confidence in the client. Good time is spent to ensure the client is taken along on the case.’
- ‘Filip Boras is a very seasoned arbitration partner with a specialisation in CEE disputes. Very strategic, highly expert and great to work with. Has quickly acquired knowledge of the case and industry and has great authority in the courtroom.’
- ‘Julia Hildebrandt is very systematic and knowledgeable, will make sure every argument is sound and well placed. She is also brilliant at keeping a tight control of process and thinks both strategically and also about details of the case. A great pleasure to work with.’
- ‘Throughout the engagement, I found the BM team to be exceptionally well prepared. The team developed a mastery of the facts of the case and the documentary evidence landscape. The BM team were also very accessible and approachable. They engaged well with the materials prepared by my firm and incorporated our opinions appropriately in their submissions.’
- ‘Filip Boras was a pleasure to work with on the case. He has an ability to get the best out of his team and his clients. He is open to ideas and creates space for discussion while also expressing his own preferred course of action. He has a capable, motivated and happy team working with him.’
- ‘Julia Hildebrandt was a real asset to the team. She managed to absorb a great deal of technical detail and map this knowledge against the case record. More importantly, Julia was able to succinctly and precisely articulate the implications of her amassed knowledge for others involved in the case. This held true for written submissions, oral statements, examination and internal meetings.’
Key clients
- RTI Rotalin Gas Trading AG/Rotalin Gaz Trading SRL
Work highlights
Represented RTI Rotalin Gas Trading AG and its Moldovan subsidiary, Rotalin Gaz Trading SRL, in investment protection proceedings against the Republic of Moldova.
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Practice head
Filip Boras
Other key lawyers
Julia Hildebrandt; Markus Schwaiger; Heiko Haller; Désirée Prantl