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Axel Heck

Address: 

Axel Heck attorney-at-law
Marienstr. 7
10117 Berlin, Germany

Phone Number: 
+49 30 27582-399
Fax Number: 
+49 3 222 555 5390
Email: 
axel_heck@1stcounsel.com
Born: 
1947, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Languages: 
English French German
Nationalities: 
German
Education: 
1st German Legal State Exam, 1973; 2nd German Legal State Exam, 1976; LL.M., 1977, Columbia University Law School
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
New York (1978); Germany (1978); France (1992-2006)
Present Position: 
Independent International Counselor, Arbitrator and Mediator
Professional Experience: 

Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine (Paris, 1984-86; New York, 1977-84); Clerkship, Directorate General for Competition, EU Commission, Brussels (1973-74)

Professional Associations: 

New York State Bar Association (Member, Executive Committee, International Section); Berlin Bar Association

Panels of Arbitrators: 

American Arbitration Association, International Dispute Resolution Center (Commercial Panel); German Institution of Arbitration; ICC (Member, Arbitration Commission)

Arbitration Experience: 

Chairman, sole arbitrator, arbitrator, and counsel in numerous institutional and in ad hoc cases. Proceedings conducted to date were in the English, French, and/or German languages, involved parties from the following countries: Australia; Austria; Belgium; Egypt; England; France; Germany; Greece; India; Italy; Japan; Luxemburg; Nigeria; Philippines; Poland; Rumania; Russia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United States; and the following industries: airlines, automotive, construction, construction management, fashion, financial services, franchising, high tech, hotel management, IP, IT, leisure parks, machinery, media, optical, paper, pharmaceuticals, reinsurance, telecoms

Areas of Specialization: 
Corporate
Private International Law
Transactional Law
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

ICC Legal Handbook on Global Sourcing Contracts, Chapter 14 Disputes (2007); U.S. Misinterpretation of the Hague Evidence Convention, 24 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 231 (1986), cited by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of France, the Solicitor General of the United States, and other amici curiae in the Aérospatiale case; Hague Conference on Private International Law, Permanent Bureau, Prel. Doc. No. 10, The Mandatory / Non-Mandatory Character of the Evidence Convention (December 2008) at fns. 8 and 31.Transnational Litigation, 18 Int’l Law. 793 (1984), cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Aérospatiale (J. Blackmun, diss. in part), 482 U.S. 522, 565 (1987).