Overview

Mr. Fuchs focuses his practice on international commercial arbitration and public international law, including investment treaty arbitration. He has experience with disputes conducted under the ICSID Convention, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, SCAI, DIS and UNCITRAL Rules as well as with pure ad hoc arbitration. He is also acting as (sole) arbitrator and has served as secretary of the tribunal in numerous international arbitrations (commercial and treaty).

Mr. Fuchs has been recognized as one of “the most highly regarded arbitration lawyers from Europe” who “stand out as among the best of their generation for their exceptional counsel and arbitration work in complex international proceedings” by GAR’s Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration – Future Leaders since its inaugural 2017 edition. He is also described as “a very smart lawyer”, “phenomenally hard working” and “a prominent name in the investment arbitration space”. Similarly, Legal 500 EMEA and the Expert Guide Commercial Arbitration recommend him for his dispute resolution expertise.

Mr. Fuchs is a Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (FMIArb). He is included on the list of arbitrators of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA) and the Panel of Arbitrators of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC). He serves as delegate of the German National Committee of the ICC on the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. In 2017, he was appointed by the ICC International Court of Arbitration as Regional Representative for the Europe and Russia Chapter of the ICC YAF (with a 2017-2019 mandate). He regularly speaks on international arbitration topics and teaches training courses and workshops on dispute resolution.

As a legal trainee, Arne worked, inter alia, at the German Federal Minis-try of Economics and Technology’s division representing the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Courts and in the international arbitration practice group of another leading global law firm in Frankfurt am Main.

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Results

Selected International Law Experience:

Defending the Federal Republic of Germany in ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12
Representing a German bank in its dispute with the Italian Republic concerning investments in the energy sector worth approximately EUR 250 million
Representing an Eastern European State against claims by an Eastern European individual in an investment arbitration concerning the mining sector under UNCITRAL Rules (1976) with an amount in dispute in excess of EUR 400 million

Representing four German banks and the Kingdom of Spain in an ICSID arbitration concerning the abolition of guaranteed renewable energy incentives ICSID Case No. ARB/15/45)
Representing a German investor in ICSID proceedings against a Southeast Asian State, valued at USD 1 billion

Selected Commercial Cases:

Sole Arbitrator in a dispute between two German companies arising from a share purchase agreement under DIS Rules and German law
Representing an international construction and engineering con-glomerate from Spain in an arbitration against an Italian construction company about claims and counterclaims concerning a large infra-structure project in Latin America under ICC Rules and New York / Spanish law
Representing a state-owned Asian oil company valued in excess of US$250 million in an ICC arbitration
Representing a German company in an Hong Kong seated HKIAC arbitration against a PRC entity under Swiss and Chinese law
Representing a German renewable energy company in an Hong Kong seated HKIAC arbitration against a PRC entity under CISG
Dispute between the national oil company of an Asian State and a Latin American State valued in excess of USD 250 million under ICC Rules(CISG)

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Recognitions

Expert Guides; LMG Rising Stars: Commercial Arbitration
Who’s Who Legal 2019, Future Leader, Arbitration
The Legal 500 EMEA 2019, Recommended Lawyer, Arbitration

Credentials

Education
George Washington University Law School, LLM, 2012
Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, Second State Exam, 2012
University of Augsburg, First State Exam, 2010

Admissions
Germany

Languages
English
French
German

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